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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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 ...
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Michael Dell has won the battle to take the company he founded in 1984 private after shareholders voted in favour of the deal on the table from Michael Dell and private equity company Silver Lake. It means that the company will be taken ...
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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 ...
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Alcoa's declining market capital and low share price prompted officials with S&P Dow Jones Indices to remove the US aluminum major from its Dow Jones industrial average Tuesday. "Alcoa's market capital was dead last among the 30 ...
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Dell founder Michael Dell and investor Silver Lake Management have had their proposed $24.9bn buyout of ailing PC maker Dell approved by holders of the voting shares. The buyout, which is the largest of its kind since 2007, has been ...
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JPMorgan Chase and Assurant have agreed to pay $300m to resolve the force-placed insurance charges levied upon them. The lawsuit filed at Miami federal court claimed that both the firms forced homeowners to pay over-priced insurance and ...
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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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Is it something on an elevated platform that prevents people from falling? Is it that low-profile metal strip that runs along the freeway? Or maybe nothing significant comes to mind? Unfortunately, the latter is often the case, especially ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Components, Guard Rail
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 ...
This is the second suit that Microsoft has won against Motorola. A federal jury in Seattle has ordered Google's Motorola Mobility to pay $14.5m in damages to Microsoft after failing to license its patents at a reasonable rate. Microsoft ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Tags: Medical Resources, Medicine
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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