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Nokia, Which Still Exists, Sues Apple Over 32 Phone Patents
Dec 26, 2016Remember when practically every cell phone company was suing every other cell phone company over patented bits of technology that make the devices work? Those days aren't quite over. Nokia on Wednesday said it's suing Apple over 32 new ...
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The U.S. International Trade Commission Has Ruled Against Interdigital in a Complaint
Dec 23, 2013The U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled against InterDigital in a complaint that alleged Huawei, Nokia and ZTE had infringed the company’s patents. On Thursday, the ITC upheld a previous ruling in June that found ...
Tags: Huawei, ZTE, Nokia, Patent Dispute
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The American Apparel & Footwear Association Welcomed The Passage of The Innovation Act
Dec 9, 2013The American Apparel & Footwear Association welcomed the passage of the Innovation Act of 2013 by the U.S. House of Representatives. The Innovation Act would reform patent troll litigation abuse by leveling the playing field for plaintiffs ...
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Rockstar Has Taken Aim at Google, HTC, Samsung and Huawi for Alleged Patent Infringement
Nov 4, 2013Rockstar, the group that bought Nortel's patents in 2011 following the company's bankruptcy, has taken aim at Google, HTC, Samsung and Huawi for alleged patent infringement. Google itself is accused of seven different counts of patent ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Commenting on The Introduction of a New Patent Reform Bill at NRF
Oct 30, 2013Commenting on the introduction of a new patent reform bill by House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Senior Vice President for Government Relations at National Retail Federation - David French said, “Patent trolls intentionally ...
Tags: NRF, Patent Reform Bill
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Intellectual Ventures Has Filed a Second Patent Lawsuit Against Motorola Mobility
Jun 19, 2013Intellectual 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 ...
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Ruling All The Asserted Claims Are Invalid
Jun 14, 2013VIZIO announced the United States District Court of the Central District of California, Hon. Mariana Pfaelzer presiding, granted summary judgment of invalidity on a patent held by Lochner Technologies LLC, ruling all the asserted claims are ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Obama Is Expected to Announce Five Executive Actions & Seven Proposed Legislative Changes
Jun 4, 2013U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to announce Tuesday measures directed against patent-holding companies, often referred to as patent trolls, according to a newspaper report. Obama is expected to announce five executive actions and ...
Tags: Patent Troll, Obama
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Personal Audio's Patents Have Stood up to Past Scrutiny
May 31, 2013The company that owns a U.S. patent for podcasting is confident the patent will stand up to a challenge initiated this week by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Personal Audio's patents have stood up to past scrutiny, including a ...
Tags: Personal Audio, Podcasting Patent
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Ericsson Plans to Close Its Copper Telecoms Cable Manufacturing Facility in Sweden
May 28, 2013Ericsson has announced it plans to close its copper telecoms cable manufacturing facility in Sweden, at the cost of 354 jobs. "The decision is based on the fact that Ericsson's production of telecom cables is small from a global ...
Tags: Ericsson, Consumer Electronics
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SAP Users Are Wasting a Total of $30bn by Running Too Many Instances of SAP
May 13, 2013SAP users are wasting a total of $30bn (£19.3bn) by running too many instances of SAP, a survey has revealed. The research, released by HCL Enterprise Application Services and conducted among 255 large enterprises with revenues in ...
Tags: SAP, Computer Products
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Rackspace Has Sued Two Companies It Describes as 'patent Trolls' for Breach of Contract
Apr 9, 2013Cloud computing company Rackspace has sued two companies it describes as 'patent trolls' for breach of contract, and asked a federal court for a declaratory judgment that it did not infringe three patents owned by one of the companies, ...
Tags: Cloud computing, Computer
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Patent Trolls Are Increasingly Becoming a Weapon to Harm or Harass Companies' Competitors
Apr 9, 2013Patent trolls are increasingly becoming a weapon some companies can use to harm or harass their competitors, according to public comments jointly submitted today to the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department by lawyers for ...
Tags: Computer Products, Google, web service
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SAP Has Moved to Defend The Users of Its Sybase Database Software
Apr 3, 2013SAP 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 ...
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U.S. Congress Needs to Shut Down So-Called Patent Trolls
Mar 18, 2013The U.S. Congress needs to shut down so-called patent trolls whose infringement lawsuits are diverting company resources from hiring and research, a group of technology companies told lawmakers Thursday. Representatives of Cisco Systems, ...
Tags: Tech companies, retailers, technology