A trademark infringement lawsuit against Facebook over its use of "timeline" will go to trial before a jury, after a judge ruled that the company had failed to show that the trademark was generic or descriptive, or Facebook's use of it ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has filed a new lawsuit in US District Court alleging the infringement of Peregrine ...
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has gotten involved in a patent infringement with Boston University in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Boston University alleges that Samsung “regularly and deliberately” ...
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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 ...
Severstal announced Monday that the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied ArcelorMittal's request for a rehearing in the matter relating to its aluminum coated steel sheet for hot stamping. The Court of Appeals let stand the ...
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A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to punish Chinese Internet company Baidu for blocking pro-democracy works on its search engine. One legal expert said the case was more of a publicity stunt than an actual legal challenge to ...
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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 of any consideration. The dispute appears to be primarily over the royalty payments to be paid by ...
Nokia has won an injunction against the sale in Germany of some HTC handsets that infringe on a power-saving technology for mobile phones. The District court of Mannheim ruled on Tuesday that HTC infringes on a Nokia patent for power ...
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Hewlett-Packard may seek damages of US$4 billion to $4.2 billion from Oracle in its lawsuit over support for Itanium server architecture. An economist that HP plans to call in the case made the estimate at an evidentiary hearing on Monday ...
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The French Jewish Students' Union has filed a lawsuit seeking 38.5 million euros (US$50 million) in criminal damages from Twitter and its CEO Dick Costolo over the company's failure to identify those responsible for a series of anti-semitic ...
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A company owned by Sony and Philips is suing Apple, alleging it's infringed numerous patents covering digital rights management technology. In the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Intertrust ...
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Hewlett-Packard may seek damages of US$4 billion to $4.2 billion from Oracle in its lawsuit over support for Itanium server architecture. An economist that HP plans to call in the case made the estimate at an evidentiary hearing on Monday ...
A jury in Texas has found that Cisco Systems did not infringe four patents held by VirnetX Holding, according to court records. The jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler division, however, found in its ...
Tags: Cisco, VirnetX patents, mobile markets
Dahon North America has settled its nearly 2-year-old lawsuit against rival folding bike brand Tern Bicycles and its owners, Joshua Hon and Florence Hon, the son and wife, respectively, of Dahon founder Dr. David Hon. In a letter sent to ...
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The U.S. Congress needs to shut down so-called patent trolls whose infringement lawsuits are diverting company resources from hiring and research, a group of technology companies told lawmakers Thursday. Representatives of Cisco Systems, ...
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