IPNews® – Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy S III phone and 20 other products came under attack from Apple Inc. in a new amended complaint on Friday in the electronics giants’ mountains of patent infringement litigation, just a week after Apple won a $1 billion verdict against Samsung in a related case.
Apple is asserting eight
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit ruled Friday that even when many different parties perform the different steps of a patented method, induced patent infringement can still exist.
The decision means Akamai Technologies Inc. will now be able to again pursue its online content delivery system patent claims against Limelight Networks Inc. McKesson Corp.’s doctor-patient electronic
IPNews® – An inventor smacked Ford Motor Co. with a patent infringement lawsuit Wednesday alleging the auto maker’s F-150 pickup truck includes his patented fuel injection system.
TMC Fuel Systems LLC gave Ford multiple opportunities to license the technology, but Ford chose not to do so and is now infringing the patent as a result
IPNews® – Google Inc. was issued a patent Tuesday for technology enabling automatic object recognition in online videos.
The patent, titled “Automatic large scale video object recognition,” involves a system that learns from exposure to visual content items by comparing data between different “feature vectors.” The system can use those vectors to accurately predict the
IPNews® – Apple obtained a patent on Tuesday for a method of automatically triggering settings on a wireless device like an iPhone or iPad based on the device’s location.
The patent, titled “Apparatus and methods for enforcement of policies upon a wireless device,” allows for ways of changing device settings when an event occurs like
IPNews® – LivingSocial Inc. was smacked with a patent infringement lawsuit on Friday at the hands of Blue Calypso Inc., a digital word-of-mouth marketing company.
Blue Calypso alleges the popular online deal company is infringing two patents related to peer-to-peer advertising. Blue Calypso also sued Groupon over the same two patents last month. To continue
IPNews® – A recently unveiled patent issued to Google Inc. last year for methods of gathering computerized data via touch sensors could pave the way for a glove that allows users to digitally interact with their environment with their hands.
The patent is titled “Seeing with your hands,” and covers various methods for collecting images
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit on Friday upheld a damages award of over $100 million against Verizon Communications Inc. in its patent wrangle with ActiveVideo Networks Inc. over video on demand technology.
The appeals court’s mixed ruling affirmed the lower court’s findings that Verizon infringed several ActiveVideo patents, while reversing an infringement finding with regard
Samsung Electronics Co. owes Apple Inc. $1 billion for improperly copying its iconic designs for the iPhone, iPad, and other consumer electronic devices, a California federal jury ruled Friday.
The jury shot down Samsung’s claims that Apple infringed Samsung’s own patents, and found that Samsung’s infringement of Apple’s patents was willful. The decision comes on
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit on Friday affirmed the validity of Eli Lilly & Co.’s patent for its chemotherapy treatment Alimta, rejecting a challenge from generic drug makers Teva Parenteral Medicines Inc., Barr Laboratories Inc. and APP Pharmaceuticals Inc.
The three companies were seeking regulatory approval to market generic versions of Alimta, and contended that