IPNews® – Non-practicing entities, or patent trolls, initiated 40 percent of all patent litigation filed in the U.S. in the past year, a new study has shown.
The percentage has jumped up from trolls filing 22 percent of all patent cases just five years ago, the study, soon to be published in the Duke Law
IPNews® – Motorola Mobility failed Wednesday to convince a Seattle federal judge to toss Microsoft Inc.’s claims seeking a court-declared reasonable and non-discriminatory royalty rate for Motorola’s standards-essential patents for wireless network and video coding technology.
The court had already found that Motorola has an obligation to license the patents in suit at RAND rates
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit agreed on Tuesday to hold an en banc rehearing involving all of the court’s judges regarding a controversial three-judge panel decision in July that upheld four financial software patents.
The July ruling in CLS Bank International v. Alice Corp. drew heat from many quarters, especially in the technology industry, for
IPNews® – Impax Laboratories Inc.’s attempt to bring to market a generic version of the emotional instability treatment Nuedexta drew a new infringement lawsuit on Monday from Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Avanir Pharmaceuticals Inc., which owns the patent for Nuedexta.
Avanir’s patent for the drug issued in July, and it says Impax’s recently filed abbreviated new
IPNews® – Samsung Electronics Co. has applied to patent a mode of harvesting information from a wireless device like a smartphone about a user’s daily life and presenting that information in story form.
A patent application revealed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week would cover a method of collecting and analyzing information
IPNews® – The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday that it will hear a soybean farmer’s appeal of his loss in Monsanto Co.’s patent infringement lawsuit over his planting of second-generation descendants of Monsanto’s genetically modified patented seeds.
The case will test the limits of how far patent protection extends for self-replicating technologies like seeds. In
IPNews® – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is increasingly issuing denials of “green” trademark applications based on deceptive claims of environmental friendliness, attorneys report.
While the PTO says the reports are incorrect and there has been no official change in its approach to green trademarks, the office already has the authority to refuse registration
IPNews® – Motorola Mobility LLC’s Android devices do not infringe a Microsoft Inc.-held European patent for a radio interface used to help apps maintain compatibility across devices, a German court ruled Friday.
The ITC ruled earlier this year that the U.S. equivalent of the European patent is valid but not infringed by Motorola’s devices. The
IPNews® – Apple Inc. is trying to obtain patent protection for a listening device like a set of headphones that could immediately and automatically switch from being plugged into a media player to operating wirelessly, according to an application the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published Thursday.
The patent application, filed in March 2011, discloses
IPNews® – Hologic Inc. said Thursday that its Gen-Probe unit has prevailed in a patent infringement lawsuit against Becton Dickinson over sexually transmitted disease tests.
San Diego federal judge Roger T. Benitez granted Gen-Probe summary judgment on its infringement claims regarding patents for chlamydia and gonorrhea testing. A trial on the remaining issues in the