IPNews® – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has tentatively nixed Apple Inc.’s patent for its iPhone “rubber banding” screen bounce-back feature, a patent that was key to the company’s $1 billion infringement verdict over Samsung Electronics Co. earlier this year.
The PTO declared all 20 claims of U.S. Patent No, 7,469,381 to be invalid
IPNews® – Purdue Pharmaceuticals LP’s patent infringement claims against KVK Tech Inc. for preparing an abbreviated new drug application for a generic version of Purdue’s blockbuster painkiller OxyContin will go forward, a New York federal judge ruled Friday.
KVK had argued that although it did all the necessary work to come up with the generic
IPNews® – Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. exchanged blows on Friday over whether the jury foreman’s alleged misconduct in the smartphone and tablet patent infringement trial that yielded a $1 billion verdict against Samsung earlier this year warrants holding a new trial.
Samsung’s allegations that jury foreman Velvin Hogan lied about his involvement in
IPNews® – Texas Instruments Inc. was granted a new patent on Tuesday covering a mode of measuring the performance of an array of solar energy panels with a range of sensors.
U.S. Patent Number 8,289,183, titled “System and method for solar panel array analysis,” describes a system and method for monitoring performance of one or
IPNews® – SK Hynix Inc. told a California federal court Wednesday that it at least deserves a new trial on Rambus Inc.’s dynamic random access memory patent infringement claims, if not a wholesale reversal of the nearly $400 million judgment in Rambus’ favor.
Recent reexamination rulings from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have invalidated
IPNews® – The United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal ruled that a lower court judge was right to find Samsung Electronics Co. did not infringe Apple Inc.’s designs when producing its own tablet computers.
The lower court issued its finding of no infringement in July, and ordered Apple to publish advertisements stating that Samsung had not
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit on Wednesday reversed a Maryland district court’s ruling that Microsoft Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and other software companies did not infringe a patent for a paging system held by Technology Patents LLC.
The appeals court simultaneously affirmed the district court’s decision in favor of a large number of domestic and foreign
IPNews® – TiVo Inc.’s damages for Motorola Mobility Inc. and Time Warner Cable Inc.’s alleged infringement of its patented digital video recording technology could add up to billions of dollars, TiVo told a Texas court Monday.
Motorola’s massive production of infringing DVRs outclasses the number of products at issue in TiVo’s previous infringement cases against
IPNews® – A French court has ruled that Bell Helicopter’s new 429 helicopter does not infringe a Eurocopter-held patent for landing gear equipment, the Textron Inc. subsidiary said Tuesday.
The French court also ordered Eurocopter to shell out for the costs of the proceedings, according to Bell. The companies are still embroiled in ongoing U.S.
IPNews® – The U.S. International Trade Commission has voted to investigate whether Apple Inc.’s importation of certain iPhone, iPad and Mac computer products violates VirnetX Inc.’s patent rights for devices with secure communications applications, the ITC said Tuesday.
VirnetX asked the ITC in September to institute an investigation into Apple’s allegedly infringing imports and ultimately