Globalized competition is inevitable in the LED industry with an increasing number of overseas LED companies entering Chinese market and vice versa. Chinese LED companies acquire renowned international manufacturers, fewer companies ...
Medtronic has seen its fair share of bad patent news of late. Last year, the company agreed to pony up more than $1 billion to settle patent litigation with Edwards Lifesciences. Now, the company stands to lose out on a significant cash ...
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Medtronic and Johnson & Johnson have agreed to settle a patent infringement lawsuit involving insulin pumps. On July 28, Judge Ronald Lew in U.S. District Court for California’s Central District issued a joint stipulation, ...
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 ...
Pfizer has reached a $2.15bn settlement with Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries, and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries over Protonix patent-infringement lawsuit in the US. Following 10-years of litigation over the intellectual property for ...
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The Textile Effects division of Huntsman Corporation announced it has obtained a judgment from the Intermediate People's Court in Shanghai, China, against Shanghai Colva Dyestuff Industry Co., Ltd. (“Colva”), a manufacturer of ...
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Google has lost yet another intellectual property case after a court in Microsoft's home city of Seattle ruled largely in its favour in a patent case. US District Judge James Robart ruled that Microsoft owed Google just $1.8m ...
Apple has ensured that it will not face an import ban on its iPhones, after it persuaded a US trade agency that it did not infringe a sensory patent, owned by Motorola Mobility. Google acquired Motorola's mobile phone unit last year for ...
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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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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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Google is to make 1,200 more job cuts - around 10 per cent of its workforce - at Motorola Mobility, the mobile phone maker it acquired for $12.5bn (£7.7bn) in a protracted deal completed in May 2012. The job cuts are part of a ...
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A court in California denied Samsung's request for a retrial in a patent infringement dispute with Apple, and also declined to raise the damages earlier awarded to Apple by a jury. The court on Tuesday also granted judgment as matter of ...
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Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs threatened Palm with a patent lawsuit if it did not enter into an agreement in which the companies pledged not to hire employees from each other, unsealed court documents show. Jobs threatened Palm with ...
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A court in California has allowed Apple and Samsung Electronics to add recent products from both companies in a patent infringement lawsuit. Apple was also allowed to drop its bid to include Samsung's Galaxy S III Mini among infringing ...
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