IPNews® – Lenovo Inc., Barnes & Noble Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and other tablet makers are infringing Hopewell Culture & Design LLC’s patent for a double-click user interaction system, Hopewell said in a barrage of new lawsuits filed Friday.
B&N’s Nook, Amazon’s Kindle, Lenovo’s ThinkPad andIdea Pad, Coby Electronics Corp.’s Kyros, Viewsonic Corp.’s ViewBook and Viewpad
IPNews® – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would not take up Nova Chemicals Corp.’s appeal of a $61.7 million patent infringement judgment in favor of Dow Chemical Co. in a case over advanced plastic polymers.
A Delaware federal jury handed down its infringement verdict in 2010, and the district court refused to
IPNews® – GlaxoSmithKline LLC and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. were accused in a new class action in New Jersey federal court on Thursday of striking illegal deals to delay the entry of generic versions of Glaxo’s epilepsy drug Lamictal to the market until Glaxo’s patent for it expired.
Glaxo sued Teva after it filed an
IPNews® – Korg Inc., Yamaha Inc. and Diasonic Technology Co. came under assault in San Diego federal court Monday from a company based there alleging the musical instrument and equipment makers are violating its patent rights in a technology for using flash memory in recording devices.
The accused products include Yamaha’s Pocketrak CX, C24, W24
IPNews® – Samsung Electronics Co. has infringed four Apple Inc. patents for smartphone and tablet technology, according to a U.S. International Trade Commission administrative law judge’s initial ruling published Wednesday.
The patents found to be infringed cover headphone audio plug connector and touch screen technology, while certain other patents Apple asserted, including one for the
IPNews® – A three-judge Federal Circuit panel on Tuesday issued an affirmation of a patent rejection by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board, but called for an en banc rehearing to clarify the standard of review the appeals court should apply to the PTAB’s claim construction rulings.
The appeal concerned
IPNews® – A court in the Netherlands ruled once again on Wednesday that Samsung Electronics Co.’s smartphones and tablets do not infringe Apple Inc.’s European patent for a “touch event model,” following in line with other European court decisions rejecting the patent.
The Dutch court’s ruling reaffirmed a decision it made in August 2011, when
IPNews® – Emblaze Ltd. accused Microsoft Corp. of infringing a patent for an Internet media streaming system in a new lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California on Friday.
Various features of Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7.0 operating systems allegedly violate Emblaze’s rights in U.S. Patent Number 6,389,473, which covers technology used
IPNews® – Purdue Pharmaceuticals LP’s patent infringement claims against KVK Tech Inc. for preparing an abbreviated new drug application for a generic version of Purdue’s blockbuster painkiller OxyContin will go forward, a New York federal judge ruled Friday.
KVK had argued that although it did all the necessary work to come up with the generic
IPNews® – Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. exchanged blows on Friday over whether the jury foreman’s alleged misconduct in the smartphone and tablet patent infringement trial that yielded a $1 billion verdict against Samsung earlier this year warrants holding a new trial.
Samsung’s allegations that jury foreman Velvin Hogan lied about his involvement in