IPNews® – Unwired Planet LLC attacked Google Inc. and Apple Inc. in Nevada federal court Wednesday over the tech giants’ alleged infringement of its patent portfolio covering mobile internet technology.
The company was an early innovator in mobile internet browsers for phones, but was pushed out of the market by infringing competition, the complaints say.
IPNews® – Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday that it has “amicably resolved” patent litigation it pursued against a Brazilian company over HP-compatible printer inkjet cartridges that HP said were covered by its patents.
Under the deal with the Brazil-based Rio Branco, distributor of the Brazilian brand Maxprint, Maxprint acknowledged that the patents are valid and enforceable. Maxprint
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit on Tuesday ruled that a lower court was wrong to find Medtronic Inc. did not infringe two patents for a heart implant device held by a company that licensed the patents to a Boston Scientific Corp. unit.
The appeals court remanded the matter for further proceedings, saying the district court
IPNews® – The U.S. International Trade Commission on Tuesday kicked off a probe into whether Apple Inc. is importing iPhones, iPads and other products into the U.S. that infringe patents held by Motorola Mobility LLC.
Motorola asked the ITC to investigate the alleged infringement a month ago. The ITC emphasized that its decision to institute
IPNews® – Microsoft Inc. said Tuesday that it has forged a licensing agreement with Research in Motion Ltd. for its latest technology to optimize flash memory storage, widely used in smartphones and other devices.
The Blackberry maker will now be able to use Microsoft’s Extended File Allocation Table, known as exFAT, a modern file system
IPNews® – Netlist Inc., an Irvine, California based producer of memory modules for cloud computing, said today that it has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a second look at a recently issued patent its rival SMART Modular Technologies Inc. is asserting against Netlist.
SMART claims Netlist’s HyperCloud memory module products infringe the
IPNews® – Citrix Inc. will have to pay $5 million in additional enhanced damages on top of a $10 million patent infringement damage award in favor of SSL Services LLC a jury handed down in June, a Texas federal judge ruled Monday.
Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas said the enhanced damages
IPNews® – VirnetX Holding Corp. filed a new patent infringement complaint against Apple Inc. on Monday in the U.S. International Trade Commission alleging the tech giant wrongly poached VirnetX’s wireless security technology for its latest iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macintosh computers.
Science Applications International Corp., which sold VirnetX part of its patent portfolio in 2006
IPNews® – A U.S. International Trade Commission judge on Friday delivered Apple Inc. its latest win in its patent war with Samsung Electronics Co.
None of the accused devices Apple is importing into the U.S. infringe Samsung’s patents, Administrative Law Judge James Gildea’s initial determination in Samsung’s Section 337 case against Apple said. To continue
IPNews® – A group of University of Texas at Austin scientists announced Wednesday that they have patented a new type of nuclear reactor that could eventually provide a method of transforming toxic nuclear waste into useable fuel.
Mike Kotschenreuther, Prashant Valanju and Swadesh Mahajan, physicists at UT’s College of Natural Sciences, said their hybrid fission-fusion