IPNews® – Broadcom was recently granted a permanent injunction against Emulex for infringing on two of its U.S. patents.
The Southern California based companies have settled on damages and a sunset period has been set to discontinue sales. Emulex has initiated a redesign and will pay royalties to Broadcom on all of the infringing products
IPNews® – A group representing 25% of the nation’s farmers is suing agricultural chemical manufacturer Monsanto Company in a preemptive lawsuit.
The lawsuit follows years of patent infringement claims by Monsanto against the companies. The farmers are not seeking any monetary damages. Instead they are attempting to have Monsanto’s corn seed patent invalidated, claiming that
IPNews® – Honeywell International Inc. has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nest Labs, Inc., a startup company founded by former Apple engineers and executives.
The lawsuit alleges that the new Nest Thermostat infringes seven patents related to Honeywell thermostat technology. Honeywell is reportedly seeking an injunction against Nest Labs to ban it from continued sales. To
IPNews® – With Asian technology giants on its heels, IBM managed to keep its top patent holder spot for the nineteenth straight year. With 6,180 new patents in 2011, IBM is facing stiff competition in the rankings from companies such as Samsung, who had an eight percent growth with 4,894 new patents.
With only two American
IPNews® – Apple has filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark to use hydrogen fuel cell technology in its portable electronic devices such as the iPhone and iPad. The technology offers the potential to go weeks without charging and cut down on the bulk and weight of batteries currently used in portable electronic
IPNews® – The European Commission has opened an investigation against Honeywell and Dupont as to whether they were forthcoming in disclosing patents while developing automobile refrigerant. Honeywell has been accused of not disclosing patents to the Society of Automobile Engineers and failing to grant licenses on fair and reasonable terms.
It is alleged that Honeywell committed a patent ambush which
IPNews® – On December 13, 2011 Google was granted U.S. Patent Number 8,078,349 which provides for a transition from a human driver to an autonomous, self-driving car. Google believes that the self-driving car will reduce traffic accidents by half, while also increasing fuel efficiency. In other words, the cars will drive themselves better and more safely
Los Angeles – In the case Global Tech Appliances v. SEB S.A. 131 S. Ct. 2060 (2011), the U.S. Supreme Court recently set the standard of proof required to prevail in an action for indirect patent infringement. To be liable, it had been unclear whether an inducing party must have also intended that the infringing act actually infringe
San Diego – Human Genome Sciences recently received a favorable ruling in a patent dispute with Eli Lilly concerning the validity of a patent for a gene sequence for use in developing treatments for people with immune diseases.
Eli Lilly originally contested the European patent owned by Human Genome on the grounds that the patent was too vague
Los Angeles – It was recently held that a method of scientific research can be patented for a field of research. In the case at issue, Classen Immunotherapies was issued a patent for the method of testing an immunization schedule. The patent explains that the schedule of immunization can have a significant impact on disorders such as diabetes. The