Dusseldorf District Court, Germany has ruled that Taiwan-based LED packaging company Everlight Electronics and its Germany-based subsidiary Everlight Electronics Europe GmbH have infringed a YAG (yttrium aluminum garnet) patent owned by ...
Tags: taiwan, LED, LED product
A U.S. appeals court upheld a district court decision that Google’s collection of data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks under its Street View program is not exempt from federal wiretap laws. Google’s data collection does not ...
Tags: Google, Street View Privacy
Nichia wins round in LED IP battle with Everlight, Dominant says it settled an IP skirmish with Osram, Cree introduces a 93-CRI SSL A-lamp, and Silver Spring partners with Sunrise Technologies on adaptive controls. The global LED ...
Tags: Lighting, LED Business
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 ...
Tags: PetroChina, Energy
US-based Avanir Pharmaceuticals (AVNR) has entered into a settlement agreement with the US unit of Indian drugmaker Wockhardt to resolve pending patent litigation in response to Wockhardt's abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) seeking ...
Tags: Avanir Pharma, Medicine
A jury in Seattle, Washington, has ruled in favor of Microsoft in a patent dispute with Motorola Mobility over standards patents, according to court records. The jury was to decide Wednesday whether Motorola, now a part of Google, ...
Six privacy groups have asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to strike down proposed changes to Facebook’s policies, as they violate a 2011 settlement with the agency over user privacy. “The changes will allow Facebook to ...
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical components for optical fiber and wireless networks) says that it has reviewed the complaint for patent infringement filed against it by M/A-COM ...
Carolina Mattress Guild, a Thomasville, N.C.-based mattress manufacturer, subjected black employees to a racially hostile work environment and unlawfully fired the employee who complained about racial comments, the U.S. Equal Employment ...
Tags: Mattress, Light Industry, Daily Use
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 ...
A U.S. federal court has found file-hosting website Hotfile liable for copyright infringement, according to movie industry body Motion Picture Association of America. The US District Court for the Southern District of Florida also held ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Following through on a policy change announced in 2012, IBM has started restricting availability of hardware patches to paying customers, spurring at least one advocacy group to accuse the company of anticompetitive practices. IBM "is ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Horizon Pharma and SkyePharma have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Watson Laboratories (WLF) and certain related companies like Actavis Pharma, Andrx and Actavis Inc. The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the ...
Tags: Horizon Pharma
Edwards Lifesciences announced that the injunction imposed by the District Court of Mannheim, Germany against the sales of Medtronic's transcatheter heart valves has become effective. In July 2013, the court ruled that Medtronic's ...
Tags: Heart Valves, Medicine