The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled in favor of Everlight today (September 13th) over patent infringement lawsuits filed against Nichia Corp regarding U.S. patent no. 6,653,215 LED metallization ...
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Japanese LED manufacturer Nichia has shown no signs of making peace with Taiwan LED manfuacturer Everlight over the latest patent dispute. In a rare move, Nichia held a press conference in Taiwan to clarify the situation and criticized ...
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On September 3, 2013, in the patent infringement lawsuits in Germany at the Düsseldorf District Court which Nichia Corporation (“Nichia”) filed against Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. (Taiwan) and Everlight Electronics ...
Tags: LED Products, YAG Patent
PetroChina (SHSE: 6001857) announced on September 6 that a foreign individual shareholder launched a lawsuit against PetroChina's two former and existing directors and two former and existing senior executives in violating the US securities ...
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Customers who bought e-books during a period of alleged price-fixing between Apple and five major publishers may be eligible to compensation payments. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has announced ...
Covidien, a provider of patient monitoring and respiratory care devices, has succeeded in a patent infringement case against Applied Medical Resources. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on August 27, 2013 upheld the lower ...
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Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said on Friday that the company would move ahead with its lawsuit against the U.S. government, seeking permission to release more information on demands Microsoft receives from the National Security ...
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Samsung Electronics claims that Ericsson demanded billions more for patent licenses after their license agreement expired in 2007. The company made its claim in a document filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on ...
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Neatly bundled files sit atop filing cabinets at a North Carolina VA center. A fireproof safe can protect important documents from damage resulting from fire, flood and building collapse. As an office manager, it's easy to get overwhelmed ...
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A dozen Chinese rare earth companies have formed an industrial alliance to sue Japan’s Hitachi Metals for holding invalid patents and infringing patent rights of Chinese companies. The legal process could start in early September in ...
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British drug-maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has reached settlement with the attorneys general of eight US states over misleading marketing of the diabetes treatment drug, Avandia, and even agreed to pay $229m to settle the lawsuits. Without ...
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Toyota Motor Corporation will put to bed claims from US customers that their vehicles’ value decreased as a result of the 2009 and 2010 recalls for unintended acceleration issues, with a US$1.63 billion ($1.8 billion) settlement being ...
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Japanese automaker Toyota Motors has agreed to pay its vehicle owners $1.6bn to settle a lawsuit over sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) reports in 2009 and 2010, which allegedly caused their vehicles to lose value. The settlement, ...
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In spite of assertions by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and others that the age of privacy is over, new research commissioned by civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch has revealed that over three quarters of consumers globally ...
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Personal lines insurer Allstate Insurance Company has filed a $6.6m lawsuit against 47 durable medical supply entities and their respective individual owners in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The 80 New York ...