IPNews® – Motorola Mobility LLC’s Android devices do not infringe a Microsoft Inc.-held European patent for a radio interface used to help apps maintain compatibility across devices, a German court ruled Friday.
The ITC ruled earlier this year that the U.S. equivalent of the European patent is valid but not infringed by Motorola’s devices. The
IPNews® – Apple Inc. is trying to obtain patent protection for a listening device like a set of headphones that could immediately and automatically switch from being plugged into a media player to operating wirelessly, according to an application the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published Thursday.
The patent application, filed in March 2011, discloses
IPNews® – Hologic Inc. said Thursday that its Gen-Probe unit has prevailed in a patent infringement lawsuit against Becton Dickinson over sexually transmitted disease tests.
San Diego federal judge Roger T. Benitez granted Gen-Probe summary judgment on its infringement claims regarding patents for chlamydia and gonorrhea testing. A trial on the remaining issues in the
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit ruled on Tuesday that Belkin International Inc. is barred from appealing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s refusal to consider its additional submissions of prior art in an attempt to have a rival’s wireless router patent invalidated on reexamination.
Belkin and fellow router makers Cisco Linksys LLC, D-Link Systems Inc.
IPNews® – Samsung Electronics Co. demanded a new trial on Tuesday in the patent infringement case that resulted in a $1 billion jury verdict in Apple Inc.’s favor in August, claiming the jury foreman lied to the court during jury selection and engaged in misconduct during deliberations.
Jury foreman Velvin Hogan failed to disclose to
IPNews® – Motorola Mobility LLC this week elected not to proceed with its Section 337 allegations in the U.S. International Trade Commission that Apple Inc. is importing Mac computers, iPads and iPhones into the U.S. that infringe the Google Inc. subsidiary’s patents.
The company also decided to dismiss a related case in Delaware federal court.
IPNews® – Samsung Electronics Co. asked a California federal judge Monday to allow it to accuse Apple Inc.’s newly introduced iPhone 5 of infringing its patents in addition to the other Apple devices listed in its counterclaims to Apple’s infringement lawsuit.
Samsung submitted its original claims in June, several months before the iPhone 5’s rollout.
IPNews® – Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. had two patents for disposable diaper training pants struck down by a Wisconsin federal judge on Friday.
One of the patents covering absorbent articles of clothing was anticipated by prior art, while the other was invalid as obvious, Judge William C. Griesbach ruled. The ruling slimmed down the number of
IPNews® – The Ninth Circuit on Friday refused to allow Motorola Inc. to enforce a patent infringement-related ban it won in Germany earlier this year against Microsoft Inc.’s sale of its Xbox 360 gaming system and some Windows software in the country.
A Seattle federal judge was right to temporarily enjoin Motorola from enforcing the
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit on Friday gave Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. another shot at proving that its two patents for a diabetes-related glucose monitoring system were not invalid in light of prior art, as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had found upon reexamination.
The PTO’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences adopted unreasonable