IPNews® – Motorola Mobility failed Wednesday to convince a Seattle federal judge to toss Microsoft Inc.’s claims seeking a court-declared reasonable and non-discriminatory royalty rate for Motorola’s standards-essential patents for wireless network and video coding technology.
The court had already found that Motorola has an obligation to license the patents in suit at RAND rates
IPNews® – Verde Power Supply Inc. has lost its appeal of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s denial of its attempt to register “Verde” as a trademark.
The PTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board affirmed a PTO examiner’s finding that the proposed trademark was merely descriptive. Verde Power Supply failed to respond to the examiner’s
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit agreed on Tuesday to hold an en banc rehearing involving all of the court’s judges regarding a controversial three-judge panel decision in July that upheld four financial software patents.
The July ruling in CLS Bank International v. Alice Corp. drew heat from many quarters, especially in the technology industry, for
IPNews® – A group of major television and movie studios told a Manhattan federal judge on Monday that they deserve summary judgment on their claims that Lime Wire LLC induced widespread copyright infringement on its users’ part by allowing rampant illegally downloading of the studios’ shows and films.
The studios asked for the same ruling
IPNews® – Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC shot back on Thursday at Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC’s trademark infringement complaint in San Francisco federal court over Bridgestone’s use of an actor who appeared in numerous Sony Playstation ads in one of its own commercials playing a Nintendo Wii.
Bridgestone says that it is not, as
IPNews® – Impax Laboratories Inc.’s attempt to bring to market a generic version of the emotional instability treatment Nuedexta drew a new infringement lawsuit on Monday from Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Avanir Pharmaceuticals Inc., which owns the patent for Nuedexta.
Avanir’s patent for the drug issued in July, and it says Impax’s recently filed abbreviated new
IPNews® – A Virginia federal judge on Friday denied Megaupload Ltd.’s motion to dismiss the U.S. government’s massive criminal copyright infringement case agains the online media storage and download service, its founder Kim Dotcom and seven other employees.
The New Zealand-based Megaupload had argued that the company could not be properly served with a summons
IPNews® – A Philadelphia deli is continuing its quest to federally register the trademark “Philadelphia’s Cheesesteak” with a new lawsuit against U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director David Kappos, having failed to persuade the PTO or the office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board that the mark is registrable.
In August the TTAB upheld the PTO’s
IPNews® – Boston creative writing organization Grub Street Inc. on Thursday went after a similarly named company that endorses books for a fee with a trademark infringement lawsuit in Massachusetts federal court.
Grub Street Reads offers positive book reviews and endorsements to authors who pay up front for the privilege. The company is trying to
IPNews® – Samsung Electronics Co. has applied to patent a mode of harvesting information from a wireless device like a smartphone about a user’s daily life and presenting that information in story form.
A patent application revealed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week would cover a method of collecting and analyzing information