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® – 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