IPNews® – The Supreme Court ruled that Nike’s covenant not to sue a competitive shoe maker renders moot the defendant’s counterclaim.
Nike originally filed the lawsuit against Already LLC for trademark infringement, which Already answered with a counterclaim alleging that Nike’s trademark is invalid. When litigation costs became greater than the potential rewards, Nike attempted
IPNews® – IBM was crowned the number one assignee of patents in 2012, for the 20th year in a row.
According to a report produced by IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, IBM acquired 6,478 patents in 2012 to top the list. Surprisingly, tech giants Google and Apple, the two who seemed to make the most
IPNews® – In order to take advantage of changes in European copyright law, Sony released 100 copies of a compilation of previously unreleased Bob Dylan recordings.
The European Union recently increased the length of copyright protection from 50 years to 70 years, however, a recording must be published prior to the end of the 50
IPNews® – The FTC released a decision last week stating that technology giant Google did not violate antitrust laws.
However, as a stipulation to the agreement, Google agreed to allow its competitors access to certain industry-standard patents that it holds. Though the agreement is not binding on any other company, it is speculated that the
IPNews® – Apple will likely have to make another expensive trademark purchase in order to be able to continue selling iPhones in Brazil.
After spending $60 million to purchase the iPad name from a company in China, Apple has run into a Brazilian company that has exclusive rights to the iPhone name in Brazil. Gradiente
IPNews® – Chip Maker Marvell Technology Group, is planning to fight a record-breaking $1.17 billion verdict which was issued against it by a Pennsylvania jury.
Carnegie Mellon University filed the lawsuit against Marvell in 2009 for infringing two patents that allow hard disk drive circuits to read data more efficiently from high-speed magnetic disks. Marvell
IPNews® – Just before the holidays, Apple’s request for a U.S. ban on Samsung products that infringe its patents was denied by a California federal judge.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said that Apple did not prove that the patents Samsung was found to infringe covered features that play a role in a consumer’s decision
IPNews® – The United States Patent and Trademark Office released a preliminary ruling that one of the patents in question in the Apple and Samsung patent wars is invalid.
Should the ruling stick, it could have lasting consequences for Apple. Samsung is already bidding for a new trial based on the ruling in order to