IPNews® – Eastman Kodak Co. told a New York bankruptcy court Friday that it would put its plans to sell off its digital imaging patent assets on hold until further notice, given its difficulty soliciting high enough bids, and could potentially license the patents instead.
Kodak has been trying to auction off its patent portfolio
IPNews® – Zillow Inc. accused its rival real estate information website operator Trulia Inc. on Wednesday of ripping off its patented method for automatically refining home valuations based on input from homeowners and other users.
The complaint in Seattle federal court alleges that Trulia.com’s “Trulia Estimates” service introduced in September 2011 infringes a patent Zillow
IPNews® – Facebook Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Walt Disney Co. are the targets of new patent infringement lawsuits the Regents of the University of California filed on Wednesday over interactive hypermedia technology.
All three companies are allegedly using patented university technology for displaying interactive information through web pages or software, the university claims in
IPNews® – A California federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of Amazon.com Inc. in OIP Technologies Inc.’s patent infringement suit alleging the world’s largest online retailer used OIP’s technology for an automated online commerce pricing system without authorization.
OIP sued Amazon in March alleging infringement of U.S. Patent Number 7,970,713, titled “Method and apparatus
IPNews® – A newly published Microsoft Inc. patent application for an “immersive display experience” featuring 3-D projections across a user’s environment sheds light on what the next generation of the company’s video game systems could look like after the Xbox 720 makes its debut.
The patent application, filed in March 2011 and published last week
IPNews® – Johnson & Johnson unit Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. won a major patent infringement victory Tuesday when a New Jersey federal judge held that its patent for the popular birth control drug Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo is valid.
The validity finding amounts to a finding of infringement against generic drug maker Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc., which filed
IPNews® – K-Tec Inc., which sparked a viral sensation with its “Will It Blend?” YouTube promotional videos for its Blendtec blenders, won out last week over its rival blender maker Vita-Mix Corp.’s appeal of a $24 million patent infringement judgment in K-Tec’s favor.
The Federal Circuit on Thursday ruled that the district court made no
IPNews® – Nike Inc. was granted patents last week for shoes containing data transmission systems to collect information about the footwear’s use and for golf clubs containing sensors to measure the club’s movements.
The footwear patent covers a shoe including a system to send data to a remote system like a display or other device
IPNews® – HTC Corp. won out on Thursday over an inventor’s claims that the phone maker infringed two patents for wireless communication devices, after an Illinois federal judge ruled that the two patents were unenforceable due to the inventor’s false statements.
Intellect Wireless founder Daniel Henderson sued HTC in 2009 as part of a larger
IPNews® – Smith & Nephew Inc. was awarded $4 million in damages on Tuesday for lost profits relating to Hologic Inc.’s infringement of its patents for a medical tissue removal device.
The Massachusetts federal jury verdict resolves consolidated patent litigation S&N first filed in June 2010. S&N alleged Hologic infringed U.S. Patent Numbers 7,226,459 and