Two U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require a losing plaintiff to pay legal costs in many patent infringement lawsuits, in an effort to discourage so-called patent trolls from filing court cases. The Saving High-Tech ...
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A Texas federal judge denied Apple's move to reduce last year's $368 million jury verdict in a patent infringement case it lost, and ordered the Cupertino, Calif., company to pay more than $363,000 daily in interest and damages until a ...
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Security company Maz Encryption Technologies sued seven large technology companies for allegedly infringing on several of its security patents. The suits target security technology used in the iPhone and iPad as well as the BlackBerry ...
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Microchip has developed a capacitive contactless identification system that relies on near-field effects around the human body. A $1 fob or token, carried about a person, sets up a field that extends to the wearers fingertips, allowing ...
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Entia Biosciences, Inc. (OTCQB: ERGO) (ENTIA) announced today that its USDA organic certification for manufacturing and handling has been expanded to include the extraction and processing of two new mushroom-based ingredients developed by ...
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Carl Zeiss Vision and Rodenstock have entered into a cross-license agreement for patents covering certain ophthalmic lens technologies, including Carl Zeiss Vision’s back-surface freeform progressive lens technology. This agreement ...
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The patent trial in Australia between Apple and Samsung Electronics has become so complex that a second judge has been assigned to the case. It's the first time in Australian federal court history that two judges will hear a case at the ...
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Small and medium-sized companies around the country are being invited to a series of one-day workshops on Government support for business, research and development (R&D) and innovation. One such event takes place at the ATRiuM, Cardiff on 6 ...
Hewlett-Packard has sold some of the rights to its webOS mobile operating system to LG Electronics for use in smart TVs made by the South Korean electronics firm. LG has agreed to acquire the source code, webOS engineering team and other ...
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Qualcomm’s RF front end chip-set could trigger a big payday for a small UK company. Last week Qualcomm announced its entry into the RF front end business with a chipset using a technique called envelope tracking. ...
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iiNET chief Michael Malone believes Apple faces increasing pressure to release a bigger slice of the iPhone pie and that it will need to settle its acrimonious patent battles with its rivals. He also believes the federal ...
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Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., a leading worldwide provider of compound ...
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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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Microsoft, EMC and NetApp have joined an appeal by Oracle against an earlier decision in a copyright and patent infringement lawsuit against Google over Android. The three companies on Tuesday filed a friend of the court brief in support ...
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The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to review a December ruling by an administrative law judge that Apple did not violate a Motorola Mobility patent relating to a sensor controlled user interface for a portable communication ...