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Epistar Grants LED Filament Patent License to LEEDARSON
Nov 19, 2015“Leedarson Lighting will be able to expand its business in the European market through this patent licensing, and acquire patent protection for the company products sold in the end market,” said Roger Chu, Director, Research ...
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CREE and Epistar Consolidate Market Position Through LED Patent Cross-License Agreement
Nov 12, 2015Cree and Epistar announced on Aug. 4, 2015, the two companies signed a global LED patent cross license agreement. The move signals large LED manufacturers strategy of maintaining market positions through patent advantages, said LEDinside ...
Tags: CREE, LED lighting, LED patent
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Microsoft Is to Acquire Nokia's Devices & Services Business
Sep 4, 2013Microsoft is to acquire Nokia's Devices & Services business, which includes the smartphone and mobile phones businesses, and license the Finnish company's patents for a total of €5.44 billion (US$7 billion) in cash, the companies said ...
Tags: Microsoft, Nokia, Mobile Phones Business, Smartphones
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Apple Has Become Embroiled in a New Row Over Its Suppliers
Jul 30, 2013Computer giant Apple has become embroiled in a new row over its suppliers after China Labour Watch claimed that Pegatron, one of Apple's outsourced manufacturers in China, was violating local labour regulations. In a report released today ...
Tags: Computer giant, Apple, Pegatron factories
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Microsoft Have Signed a Patent Deal to Protect Foxconn Clients
Apr 18, 2013Microsoft and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd - Apple's largest manufacturing partner, which trades as Foxconn - have signed a patent deal to protect Foxconn clients from patent claims that could arise from the use of Google's Android and ...
Tags: Microsoft, Foxconn, Computer Products
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Google Has Agreed to Change Some of Its Business Practices
Jan 7, 2013Google has agreed to change some of its business practices, including allowing competitors access to some standard technologies, to resolve a U.S. Federal Trade Commission antitrust complaint against the company. Google has also agreed to ...
Tags: Google, US FTC, antitrust case
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Microsoft Said Monday That Two More Companies Had Signed Patent Agreements
Dec 31, 2012IDG News Service-Microsoft said Monday that two more companies had signed patent agreements covering their Android and Chrome devices,under the company's IP(intellectual property)licensing program that already has more than 1,100 licensing ...
Tags: Microsoft, patent licensing, Android and Chrome devices
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HTC Had Earlier Agreed to Produce a Version of Its PLSA with Apple
Dec 31, 2012A court in California has ordered Apple to produce without delay an unredacted version of its recent patent agreement with HTC, after Samsung Electronics said the agreement was relevant to its patent infringement dispute with Apple. The ...
Tags: HTC, Apple, patent agreement, Samsung Electronics
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A Court in California Denied Samsung Electronics a Retrial in a Patent Dispute with Apple
Dec 28, 2012A court in California has denied Samsung Electronics a retrial in a patent dispute with Apple, and also refused Apple a ban on the sale of some Samsung products. A jury decided in August that the South Korean company must pay Apple ...
Tags: Samsung Electronics, patent dispute, Apple, Judge
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European Parliament Voted in Favour of New Patent Law to Provide One Regulation
Dec 21, 2012The European Parliament has voted in favour of a new patent law to provide one regulation and one court to cover inventions across the European Union (EU). Currently EU citizens can either apply for a national patent in their own country ...
Tags: European Parliament, national patent, unitary patent, patent system
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A Patent Agreement Between Apple and HTC
Dec 6, 2012A patent agreement between Apple and HTC forbids the Taiwanese company from making and selling mobile devices that copy what is described as the'Distinctive Apple User Experience,"according to a redacted version of the agreement filed in a ...
Tags: Apple, HTC, Distinctive Apple User Experience, design patents
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Yahoo&Facebook Have Ended Their Four-Month Patent Battle%Formed an Advertising Partnership
Jul 9, 2012Yahoo and Facebook have ended their four-month patent battle and formed an advertising partnership. In March,Yahoo sued Facebook for infringing 10 patents ahead of the social network's planned public listing. The following ...
Tags: Yahoo, Facebook, Partnership, Collaborate