Intellectual Ventures, a large patent-licensing firm, has filed a second patent-infringement lawsuit against Motorola Mobility while its first patent lawsuit is still pending in a Delaware count. The patent-licensing firm filed its second ...
Google yesterday sent a cease-and-desist letter to Microsoft, demanding that its rival remove the YouTube app built for the Windows Phone platform. The letter cited violations of the YouTube and YouTube API terms of service, including ...
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Microsoft has inked an agreement that adds China-based ZTE to its Android and Chrome patent licensing program. Financial details of deal were not disclosed. But the agreement gives ZTE access to Microsoft patents covering phones, ...
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Microsoft has signed up another major electronics manufacturer to its Android and Chrome patent licensing program, this time Taiwan's Foxconn, which will pay royalties to the U.S. software giant. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, ...
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Microsoft today launched a searchable list of its complete patent portfolio as part of its defense of the patent system, particularly software patents. The list is currently composed of nearly 41,000 U.S. and international patents ...
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Google will not sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked, the company said Thursday. Google began the pledge with 10 patents relating to MapReduce, a computing model for ...
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Ericsson has sued Indian mobile handset vendor Micromax in an Indian court, alleging infringement of eight of its patents without payment. The dispute appears to be primarily over the royalty payments to be paid by Micromax to Ericsson ...
Ericsson has sued Indian mobile handset vendor Micromax in an Indian court, alleging infringement of eight of its patents without payment of any consideration. The dispute appears to be primarily over the royalty payments to be paid by ...
Software patents, facing new scrutiny in the U.S., drive innovation and protect huge investments by developers, representatives of software companies said during a Capitol Hill briefing. The U.S. patent system isn't perfect, but lawmakers ...
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A U.S. district court judge has ruled that 13 Motorola Mobility patent claims related to digital video are invalid in a patent licensing case brought by Microsoft. Judge James Robart of U.S. District Court for the Western District of ...
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Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson has sold a portfolio of patents and patent applications to intellectual property company Unwired Planet. The company, which claims to be the "inventor of the mobile internet", was known as Openwave back in ...
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Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson has sold a portfolio of patents and patent applications to intellectual property company Unwired Planet. The company, which claims to be the "inventor of the mobile internet", was known as Openwave back ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft said Monday that two more companies had signed patent agreements covering their Android and Chrome devices,under the company's IP(intellectual property)licensing program that already has more than 1,100 licensing ...
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Nokia has won its dispute with Research In Motion (RIM) after a year of fighting over its patent-licensing agreement. Nokia and RIM have a history of licensing patents to one another, and agreed a cross-license in 2003 for ...
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Apple has offered to pay Google's Motorola Mobility unit up to one dollar per device for a license to its patents covering cellular and Wi-Fi technologies. Apple's offer, disclosed in a filing to the U.S. District Court for the Western ...
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