IPNews® – It appears that an ongoing patent battle between Microsoft and Motorola Mobility, now owned by Google, has come to an end.
In a recent decision in the ITC, an Administrative Law Judge held that Microsoft had not infringed Motorola’s patent. The decision relates to Microsoft’s popular Xbox 360 gaming console. To continue reading
IPNews® – Unilever NV and International IP Holdings, LLC have filed lawsuits against each other in two separate federal courts to determine whether the SLIMFUL trademark infringes the SLIM-FAST trademark.
International IP Holdings filed a lawsuit for declaratory relief that its SLIMFUL trademark does not infringe Unilever’s SLIM-FAST trademark in Michigan federal court. Unilever also
IPNews® – The Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court’s ruling that jewelry maker Solid 21’s RED GOLD trademark is generic and therefore is not protectable.
Solid 21’s rival Breitling USA, Inc. argued that the lower court was right to dismiss the lawsuit brought against it by Solid 21 because the trademark RED GOLD is generic
IPNews® – THX, Ltd. lodged a complaint against Apple, Inc. in California Federal Court claiming that the technology giant is infringing its patent for narrow-profile speakers.
THX, a cinematic acoustics company founded by “Star Wars” creator George Lucas, filed the complaint in the Northern District of California claiming that Apple is selling and importing products
IPNews® – A U.S. federal judge denied Aereo, Inc.’s bid for a temporary restraining order against FilmOn.com, Inc. that would have prohibited FilmOn from using the AERO trademark or the Aero.tv domain name until the trademark infringement lawsuit between the two concluded.
Aereo alleged that FilmOn purposely chose Aero as the name of its online
IPNews® – Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3 and at least one of its Blu-ray players infringes four of TV Interactive’s patents, according to an expert witness’s testimony in front of a San Francisco jury last Wednesday.
TV Interactive filed a lawsuit against Sony alleging that the company’s PlayStation 3 and BDP-S500 Blu-ray disc player infringe on
IPNews® – Penguin Group USA, Inc.’s copyright infringement lawsuit against a small nonprofit online library was dismissed by a New York federal judge last week, after the publishing company was unable to satisfy jurisdictional requirements.
Penguin filed a complaint against the nonprofit online library American Buddha in 2009, after the publishing giant discovered the website
IPNews® – A group of Native Americans are attempting to have six Washington Redskins’ trademarks cancelled, claiming that the team’s name is disparaging to Native Americans.
In a hearing in front of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board last week, a group of Native Americans argued that because the team’s
IPNews® – Allergan, Inc. was granted partial summary judgment against Cosmetic Alchemy, LLC for inducing its customers to infringe Allergan’s patents that cover its popular eyelash growth drug Latisse.
U.S. District Judge James V. Selna of the Central District of California ruled that Cosmetic Alchemy had induced its customers to infringe Allergan’s patent by marketing
IPNews® – Facebook, Inc. is tangled in another round of litigation, this time for the website’s timeline feature, which a rival claims infringes its trademarks.
Timelines, Inc. alleges that Facebook’s timeline feature infringes its TIMELINES trademark, but Facebook claims the trademark should never have been granted because the term is generic. Timelines countered that just