IPNews® – Craigslist Inc. is illegally protecting its monopolistic position in the online classified ad market by threatening and filing sham copyright and trademark infringement litigation, a public listing database service said Monday in response to Craigslist’s recently-filed infringement claims against it.
3Taps Inc. says Craigslist is engaging in unfair competition and violations of antitrust
IPNews® – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last week told a California federal judge that Google Inc. must be compelled to provide depositions in the Academy’s trademark infringement case against GoDaddy.com over alleged Oscar-related cybersquatting on GoDaddy-registered domain names.
AMPAS wants to know what role Google’s “AdSense for Domains” advertising program played
IPNews® – SK Hynix Inc. has reached a settlement with Intellectual Ventures Inc. of the latter’s claims that Hynix infringed its patents for semiconductor technology, IV said Monday.
Hynix also won a favorable court ruling on Friday in California, meanwhile, limiting the royalties it will have to pay to Rambus Inc. for infringing that company’s
IPNews® – RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Star Scientific Inc. on Monday put to rest Star’s long-running patent infringement suit alleging RJ Reynolds improperly used its technology for reducing carcinogens in tobacco.
The settlement reached resolves all of the pending claims and counterclaims in the suit, with no acknowledgement of liability on either side. Both
IPNews® – Conde Nast was hit with a declaratory judgment lawsuit on Friday at the hands of a luxury goods online store seeking a declaration that it is not infringing the magazine publisher’s trademark for the name of Vogue Magazine.
Voguevert LLC claims that its name, for which it has already obtained a federal trademark
IPNews® – Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. claimed in a new trademark infringement lawsuit Friday that rival fast food chain Jack in the Box Inc. misappropriated its name for a recent promotion.
Jack in the Box’s limited time offer for a Chipotle Chicken Club Combo, and accompanying use of the neologism “Chipotload,” infringe Chipotle’s trademark for
IPNews® – Verizon Communications Inc. agreed Monday to pay $250.4 million to settle TiVo Inc.’s patent infringement claims related to digital video recording technology.
The two companies will also enter a mutual patent licensing agreement, TiVo said. The pair are now pursuing possible collaborations in the realm of Internet video, according to TiVo. To continue
IPNews® – Apple Inc. asked a California federal judge Friday to tack on $707 million in enhanced and supplemental damages and interest on top of the $1 billion a jury recently awarded the company in its iPhone and iPad patent infringement war with Samsung Electronics Co.
Samsung made a calculated business decision to copy Apple’s
IPNews® – Disney Enterprises Inc. prevailed on Thursday in a copyright infringement lawsuit in Missouri federal court accusing it of misappropriating the titles and story lines of its 2009 and 2010 “Santa Paws” movies from a 1991 illustrated Christmas story.
Disney’s movies are not substantially similar to the protected expression in the plaintiffs’ short story
IPNews® – Samsung Electronics Co. and Motorola Mobility LLC on Friday escaped Apple Inc.’s claims in a German court that their Android devices infringe one of its European patents for a touch interface.
Samsung and Motorola do not infringe because Android does not store a multi-touch “flag” in association with each user interface component, Judge