IPNews® – Rembrandt Social Media LP sued Facebook Inc. in Virginia claiming Facebook is infringing two of its patents with its “Like” button and other sharing technology.
Rembrandt claims that it owns two patents covering technology that allows users to create a personal webpage and pull content from third party sources without any training in
IPNews® – Purdue Pharma LP filed a lawsuit in New York on Friday claiming that two generic drug manufacturers’ planned generic versions of the “abuse-proof” form of OxyContin will infringe two patents licensed to the company.
Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Impax Laboratories Inc. both sent letters to Purdue in December, informing the company of their
IPNews® – A district judge denied both Apple and Samsung’s post-trial motions on Tuesday that challenged the $1.05 billion patent infringement judgment against Samsung.
Apple and Samsung were both denied motions for a new trial and Apple lost it bid for treble damages as the company did not adequately prove that Samsung had willfully infringed
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit ruled in favor of pharmaceutical giant Allergan, saying that two generic-drug manufacturers would infringe its patent if they attempted to make a generic form of Lumigan, a patented drug for glaucoma patients.
Barr Laboratories, Inc. and Sandoz, Inc. were found by the lower court to not have sufficiently proven their
IPNews® – Pfizer Inc. and Northwestern University filed a lawsuit on Friday in an attempt to prevent a generic-drug manufacturer from producing a form of the patented drug Lyrica.
The company and the university have actively fought to protect the patent for the drug, which brought in more than $3.7 billion in revenues in 2011.
IPNews® – The United States Supreme Court will rule on the doctrine of patent exhaustion as it relates to self-replicating products.
Monsanto sued Vernon Bowman, a farmer who recreated and planted patented Roundup Ready soybean seeds he bought from Monsanto, for patent infringement. Bowman argues that the patent exhaustion doctrine takes away any power Monsanto
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® – 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® – 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