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
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 ...
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
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
Arlington Industries announced Bridgeport Fittings has paid it an additional $1.13 million in supplemental damages for sales of Whipper-Snap products from 2010 through 2011. Bridgeport was previously ordered to pay Arlington $3.62 million, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which manufactures semiconductors, components, and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has filed a patent infringement suit in the US District Court for the ...
Recent advances in the smartphone/handheld device technology have led to a boom in the mobile device manufacturing industry. It has also given rise to a situation of patent warfare, wherein each company operating in this segment is locked ...
Tags: Mobile Devices, Electrical, Electronics
The World Wide Web Consortium has finalized its specification for Web Storage, a technology that would give Web applications more flexibility in storing data on user machines. Now that Web Storage is an official specification, browser ...
Tags: Web Storage
According to reports from foreign media, the transaction amount is expected to exceed $ 200 million. News media quoted insiders, Samsung and Novaled will reach an agreement within this week, Gerd Guenther, Chief Marketing Officer of ...
Tags: Samsung
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected claims of an Apple patent that figures prominently in a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, according to documents filed by the South Korean company in a U.S. federal ...
Tags: Apple, pinch to Zoom
The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) initiated a Section 337 investigation on June 20, 2013 into five consumer electronics companies based in China, Japan and the United States for patent infringement. The probe is grounded ...
Tags: Patent Probe, Consumer Electronics
The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to investigate HTC for patent infringement based on a complaint Nokia filed in May that targets several phones from the Taiwanese handset maker, including the HTC One. Nokia's complaint ...
Tags: HTC, Nokia, Patent Dispute
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will launch an investigation of the business practices of so-called patent trolls in an effort to understand whether those companies are harming competition and consumers, the agency's chairwoman said. As ...
Tags: Patent Trolls, FTC
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 ...
On the 29th of May 2013, Flooring Industries, the IP company of the Unilin group, has terminated its laminate and LVT license agreements with Jiangsu Daou, after obtaining evidence that this company was not honoring its contractual ...
Tags: Unilin, Compliant Licensees