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- Phoenix Media Says Facebook Is Infringing On 'Profile Page' Patent
- A newspaper company—yes, a newspaper company—has a patent on the idea of a “personal profile page” and now wants some payback from Facebook. In a lawsuit filed this week, Phoenix Media subsidiary Tele-Publishing, which provides dating services products to various newspaper companies, says that Facebook is infringing on a...
- External links 2009-10-09
- Artist Shepard Fairey Admits Image Citation Error?But Presses On With Fair Use Claim Against AP
- Late on Friday, the Associated Press and Shepard Fairey, the artist who appropriated an AP photo for his iconic campaign image of President Barack Obama, are continuing their legal battle. A statement released by the AP said that Fairey, through his lawyers, admitted incorrectly citing the photo he used...
- External links 2009-10-17
- Nokia Sues Apple: iPhone Maker Accused Of Infringing Mobile Patents
- You might call it a case of: “if you can’t beat ‘em, sue ‘em”. Finnish mobile giant Nokia (NYSE: NOK) filed a lawsuit against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) on Thursday on grounds that the iPhone maker has used Nokia’s mobile technology without permission. The case, filed in the U.S. District...
- External links 2009-10-22
- Spring Design Sues Barnes & Noble; Claims Breach Of NDA
- Somehow a lawsuit had to be lurking ... Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which took a spin on the floor with just about everyone before announcing its own e-reader, is being sued by Spring Design for misappropriation of trade secrets and violating a non-disclosure agreement. Cupertino-based Spring claims B&N...
- External links 2009-11-03
- Spring Design Seeks Injunction Against Barnes & Noble Over E-Reader Tech
- Finally got the actual lawsuit Spring Design filed in federal court against Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) over their dueling e-readers and a little time to look through it. (The full PDF is embedded after the jump.) Spring claims that it only shared certain info about its own e-reader...
- External links 2009-11-04
- Earnings: TiVo Q2 Loss Edges Slightly Higher; Fires Lawsuit At AT&T and Verizon
- TiVo’s net income loss was slightly higher in Q2, widening to $2.93 million ($0.03 per share) from $2.91 last year. Revenues also dipped, falling to $57.3 million from $65.2 million in Q208. Not great news by any stretch, but the DVR company did beat analysts estimates who expected a...
- External links 2009-08-26
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- RIM's quest for LTE patents complicated
- RIM continues to play the nationalist card in its fight for bankrupt Nortel#039s LTE assets. In an emergency meeting on Friday with the Canadian House of Commons Industry Committee, RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis proclaimed that Nortel#039s LTE patents and assets are a national treasure and should stay in Canadian hands....
- News items 2009-08-10
- Protecting New Products with Patents
- If your business is in the business of innovating, it is essential that you protect new products by taking out a patent. Patents are granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office USPTO to inventors, giving them the right to prevent exploitation of their inventions by others. U.S. patent law...
- Articles 2007-03-27
- Nokia: Apple iPhone Violates Our Patents
- By Jack Ewing and Arik Hesseldahl Apple's iPhone has been giving Nokia smartphones a hard time in the marketplace. Now Nokia is giving Apple a hard time in the courtroom. The Finnish handset giant said Oct. 22 it has filed suit against Apple AAPL in U.S. District Court in Delaware,...
- News items 2009-10-23
- related news in brief...IBM has launched a patent information Web site (www.ibm.com/patents)
- IBM has launched a patent information Web site (www.ibm.com/patents) that provides free access to a database of two million U.S. patents issued during the past 26 years. The database contains images of a million patents, including drawings of patents iIBM has launched a patent information Web site...
- Research articles 1997-01-31
- Microsoft Patents Page Scrolling
- Microsoft Patents Page ScrollingRE: Microsoft Patents Page ScrollingMicrosoft is not that naïve to go around asserting such basic patents. It is cheaper to hoard these “obvious†un-defendable patents than to fight these patents in the court. PTO is not going to improve its standards for issuing patents any...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Bilski Decision Leaves Business Method Patents in Dire Straits
- Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit CAFC affirmed a previous ruling in the In Re Bilski case, striking down many if not most business method patents and setting the stage for a likely appeal to the Supreme Court. At stake is whether companies will be able...
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- IBM leads in patents. (1995 was the third straight year in which IBM produced the highest number of technology patents in the US)(Brief Article)
- 00-00-0000 AT IBM FOR THE THIRD STRAIGHT year, more technology has emerged as U.S. patents than from any other company. In 1995 the company was awarded 1,383 patents--27% more than any other firm. Its previous records include 1,298 in 1994, and 1,08 00-00-0000 ...
- Research articles 1996-02-19
- PATENTS: Quantum Dot Licenses MIT Patents.
- Quantum Dot Corp. QDC (4030 Fabian Way, Palo Alto, CA 94303 Tel: 650/812-7390, 650/812-7660, Website: qdots.com) has added three patents to its portfolio of patents licensed from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, obtaining exclusive Quantum Dot Corp. QDC (4030 Fabian Way, Palo Alto, CA...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- MIT SUES SONY OVER DTV PATENTS.(Massachusetts Institute of Technology says Sony Electronics infringed four digital television patents)(Brief Article)
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a lawsuit against Sony Electronics, claiming that the manufacturer infringes on four patents used in its digital televisions. Spokesman Robert Sales would not comment on the specific patents but said The Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a...
- Research articles 2001-09-03
- Jury invalidates pair of Northpoint patents.(For The Record)(Brief Article)
- WASHINGTON -- A jury last week invalidated two patents that were awarded to Northpoint Technology Ltd. The patents claimed to cover the technology to be used in the video and data service Northpoint plans to launch using the same spectrum dir...
- Research articles 2003-11-10
- NO OVERSTOCK OF PATENTS APPLICATION FROM 2003
- AsiaInfo Services 11-23-1999 No Overstock of Patents Application from 2003 WUHAN, November 23, AsiaPort -- Personnels from National Bureau of IPR committed on the working meeting of National Patents Trial Cities held in Wuhan that...
- Research articles 1999-11-23
- Immersion Corp. (Business Sense).(awarded patents)(Brief Article)
- Immersion Corp. (San Jose, CA, www.immersion.com) has been awarded seven new patents for technologies in the area of haptics, or force-feedback touch sensing. One of the new patents involves adding touch sense to Web pages; it allows a user to receiv Immersion Corp. (San Jose, CA,...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- S-A, MAAST in PPV, partnership for patents. (Scientific-Atlanta Inc. and MAAST Inc. in pay-per-view television partnership)
- S-A, MAAST In PPV, Partnership For Patents Scientific-Atlanta Inc. and MAAST Inc. have entered into a partnership that will license pay-per-view and impulse pay-per-view patents, representatives from both companies said. IPPV Enterprises w S-A, MAAST...
- Research articles 1991-04-15
- Eaton donates 14 patents to state program.(Brief Article)
- The Ohio Intellectual Property Collaborative has received its first package of patents, which the economic development group will place with small manufacturers interested in commercializing the technology. The patents were donated by Eaton Corp., The Ohio Intellectual Property Collaborative has received its first...
- Research articles 2001-03-05
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