The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed online electronics retailer Newegg’s 2011 victory against Alcatel-Lucent, in a patent infringement lawsuit, says Newegg. Lee Cheng (Chief legal officer, Newegg): To date, we have invalidated four e-commerce patents that…
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HP and Source Direct, a third-party maintainer based in Addison, Texas, have resolved HP’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Source Direct. The lawswuit related to HP’s proprietary software patches on the HP Support Center (HPSC) website. The settlement was reached after…
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Microsoft and Hon Hai (the parent company of Foxconn) signed a worldwide patent licensing agreement that provides broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio. The deal covers devices running the Android and Chrome OS, including smartphones, tablets and televisions. While the…
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Microsoft has launched a ‘Patent Tracker’ tool that provides a list of all of the patents the company owns. Not only that, Microsoft is urging all companies to list their patents too. Brad Smith (General counsel and executive vice president,…
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Intertrust Technologies has filed a broad patent infringement suit against Apple. The lawsuit, filed in a North Carolina federal court, accuses Apple of making products and services that infringe on 15 Intertrust patents on security and distributed trusted computing. The…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Rambus has signed a patent license agreement with LSI. The agreement allows LSI to include Rambus-patented innovations in all its products. In addition, the two companies have settled all outstanding claims, including pending disputes related to Rambus’ patented…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Electronics e-tailer Newegg has won a long-running legal battle against Soverain Software. On January 22, 2013, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous ruling invalidating all patents that Soverain had asserted against Newegg, overturning the initial victory…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] IBM received 6,478 patents in 2012, for inventions across key domains including analytics, Big Data, cybersecurity, cloud, mobile, social networking and software defined environments, as well as industry solutions for retail, banking, healthcare, and transportation. More than 8,000 IBM…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] A San Jose federal court confirmed a $60 million damages verdict against A10 Networks and entered an order permanently enjoining A10 from infringing on Brocade’s patents involving technologies for Global Server Load Balancing and High Availability, says Brocade.…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Tessera Technologies, and its subsidiaries Tessera and Invensas have entered into new eight-year patent license agreements with SK Hynix. The companies did not disclose the specific financial terms of the agreements, under which SK Hynix will make a…
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