Nexxus Lighting,Inc.has announced a settlement agreement ending the pending patent litigation brought by Royal Philips Electronics. In connection with the settlement and patent license agreement: •Philips will grant Nexxus ...
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Nexxus Lighting and Royal Philips Electronics have settled patent litigation brought by Philips.Philips has granted Nexxus an ongoing,royalty-bearing license to LED luminaire and retrofit bulb technologies.Nexxus also finalized a$6 million ...
Tags: Nexxus Lighting, Philips, LED, Aston Capital, Patent Litigation
Researchers have long been hard at work figuring out ways that solar panels can convert more sunlight into electricity.A startup hailing from Australia,Brisbane Materials,now says it's figured out how to do this effectively using an ...
Google has been publicly warned by EC Competition Comissioner Joaquin Almunia that it must do more to answer claims from rivals that it is abusing its dominant position in the search market. Since 2010,the Competition Commission has been ...
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Samsung Electronics and Motorola Mobility don't infringe on an Apple patent for technology that prevents smartphone users from pushing two buttons at the same time on a touch screen,the lower regional court in Mannheim ruled on Friday,a ...
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Oracle has filed suit against Texas company Advanced Dynamic Interfaces, seeking to have an intellectual-property action it filed against 20 users of Oracle software tossed out of court. The companies are all users of Oracle's Application ...
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"The number of fronts of risk and war, as some people call it, are definitely multiplying," says Clinton McFadden, senior operations manager for IBM X-Force research and development, which just released the results of its X-Force 2012 ...
Tags: Cyberwarfare, Trend and Risk Report., IBM, US
Talon International Inc announced an end to its extended legal battle with Pro-Fit Holdings,Limited regarding Talon's rights to the patented Tekfit stretch-waistband technology,and that the Company has now completed the process of securing ...
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Samsung has failed in its bid to get an injunction against its Galaxy tablet overturned in the US. The injunction was placed before the recent court case that the company decisively lost to Apple–although the Galaxy tablet was not ...
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According to Nexxus Lighting,Inc.,an affiliate of Aston Capital,LLC(the"Investor")has agreed to invest$6 million in the Company through the purchase of convertible preferred stock to provide strategic,operational and financial expertise for ...
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The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) presented Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) with the annual AAFA Friend of the Apparel and Footwear Industry Award during a reception in Washington, D.C., ...
Tags: Apparel, Footwear, Award, AAFA, barriers to trade, intellectual property
The September 2012 issue of LEDs Magazine is now available. +++Cover+++ Architect Moshe Safdie led a revamp of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City,MO including new façade lighting in the Muriel Kauffman ...
Companies that are developing LED lighting products need to have an awareness of the wider patent landscape to help them develop,protect and exploit their own intellectual property to its fullest,as JACKIE MAGUIRE and DAVID SEGAL explain. ...
Nexxus Lighting Inc. unveiled a $6 million investment from Aston Capital LLC and said the private equity firm's Chairman and Chief Executive Robert LaPenta will become Nexxus's new chairman. Upon the closing of Aston's investment, all of ...
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Digital Lumens has secured an additional patent for its distributed LED control technology, which continuously optimizes energy usage and forms the core of the Digital Lumens Intelligent Lighting System™. This breakthrough approach ...