IPNews® – The Federal Circuit on Friday affirmed a Texas federal court’s patent infringement finding and accompanying injunction barring three generic drug manufacturers from making, selling or marketing generic versions of Pozen Inc.’s migraine treatment Treximet.
Par Pharmaceutical Inc., Alphapharm Pty Ltd. and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Inc. could not overcome the presumption of validity of
IPNews® – A Missouri federal judge on Thursday let Dow AgroSciences LLC off the hook for Bayer CropScience AG’s claims that Dow is infringing its patent for a way to genetically modify plants to be unharmed by a powerful herbicide.
Bayer claimed Dow’s “Enlist Weed Control” product infringed its U.S. Patent Number 6,153,401 for a
IPNews® – Apple Inc. is seeking patent protection for its Siri voice assistant feature on the iPhone, according to a patent application the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published Thursday.
The application continuation, originally filed in June and titled “Intelligent automated assistant,” covers a system with which a user can engage in natural, conversational dialogue
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the dismissal of a “death care” company’s attempt to win a declaratory judgment warding off a potential patent infringement suit from another company over a method of cremating human remains without incinerating them.
Matthews International Corp.’s claims that Biosafe Engineering’s patents are invalid, unenforceable and not infringed
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® – 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® – 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
IPNews® – A German court granted Microsoft Inc. an injunction Thursday against the sale of any of Google Inc.-owned Motorola Mobility LLC’s devices that infringe a Microsoft-held European patent for a software input function.
The technology at issue is a cornerstone of the Android operating system, and the judge found that the operating system itself