SAP has filed a court action against patent holder Pi-Net International, which it says has filed patent infringement lawsuits against a number of SAP customers. The alleged infringements, which concern three Pi-Net patents, are associated ...
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SAP has moved to defend the users of its Sybase database software by filing suit against Pi-Net International, a "patent troll" that has filed several patent infringement lawsuits against SAP customers in the US financial services sector ...
Apple has filed a patent that appears to describe wraparound screen technology for smartphones. According to a patent application filed in September 2011, but only revealed publicly this week, future Apple smartphones could include a ...
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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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US-based H2M Beverages has announced that the company received patent approval for its new interactive dispensing cap technology. H2M's two-piece cap has been designed to hold liquid or solid in an air-tight chamber, and releases its ...
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APPLE is seeking a patent for an iPhone that has a display that wraps around the edges of the device, expanding the viewable area and eliminating all physical buttons. The patent application reveals that Apple has put some thought into ...
THE US Patent and Trademark Office has denied Apple's application for a trademark to safeguard its popular iPad mini tablet, saying the case to own the phrase was too weak. Apple, however, has until July 24 to better explain how the ...
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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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Networking and telecom equipment vendor Huawei has lost a patent lawsuit it filed in France against ZTE over a USB connector patent, ZTE said on Friday. The Paris court decided on Thursday to reject all of Huawei’s claims over a ...
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Healthcare products company Covidien has been awarded with $176.5m verdict in patent litigation against Ethicon Endo-Surgery,a Johnson & Johnson company. The suit filed is related to Ethicon's Harmonic line of ultrasonic surgical products ...
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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Kalila Medical's patent application relating to its proprietary truVector technology. The patent No. 8,323,241 entitled, ' Steerable Medical Delivery Devices and Methods ...
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The Indian Supreme Court has rejected Novartis' patent application for its anti-cancer drug Glivec (imatinib mesylate) saying that “application for patent on the beta-crystalline salt does not meet any standard of novelty or ...
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Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA, which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries, says that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has ...
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Rubicon has been granted its "Asymmetrical Wafer Configurations and Method for Creating the Same,” U.S. Patent No. 8,389,099 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent covers the creation of visual and ...
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) yesterday awarded Microsoft 13 design patents for its Surface line of tablets, including their innovative Touch keyboards-slash-covers, according to published documents. The baker's dozen were ...
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