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
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit on Tuesday partially reversed a lower court’s finding that a number of Santarus Inc.’s patent claims for its heartburn drug Zegerid are invalid, giving Santarus another crack at hanging Par Pharmaceuticals Inc. out to dry for trying to market a generic version of the drug.
The district court slipped up
IPNews® – Apple Inc. does not owe anything for allegedly infringing Mirror Worlds LLC’s computer operating system patents via features in its Mac OSX operating systems, the Federal Circuit ruled Tuesday, affirming that a lower court was right to throw out a $626 million jury verdict against Apple in the case.
The case focused on
IPNews® – Oracle Corp. must pay Google Inc. $1 million to compensate for costs incurred in Oracle’s failed patent and copyright infringement suit over the Java programming language, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Google had asked for $4 million in costs, but Judge William Alsup shot down $3 million in e-discovery cost requests. Oracle
IPNews® – Apple Inc. was issued 26 new patents on Tuesday including patents for a multi-touch capable liquid crystal display screen and a new process for molding carbon fiber that could be used to make more durable computer housings.
The touch screen patent discloses LCD touch screens that integrate the touch sensing elements with the