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
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