A bill to reduce the likelihood of massive damage awards in patent disputes took a step forward on Thursday with approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 03, 2011
U.S. generic drug maker Mylan Inc has settled two U.S. patent disputes with global pharma giant Pfizer Inc, which will enable the former to sell the generic versions of cholesterol drug Lipitor and combination blood pressure and cholesterol treatment Caduet.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 28, 2011
Apple is due to take gesture-based navigation to the next level, as a recently awarded patent to Apple illustrates a technology that can interpret real-world gestures on touch and hover sensitive devices.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 27, 2011
Sharp Corp said on Tuesday it had filed LCD patent infringement lawsuits in the United States against Taiwan's Au Optronics Corp.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 24, 2011
Telecom services provider Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. filed a lawsuit on Monday against Motorola and Nokia Siemens Networks for intellectual property infringement.
Balasubramanyam Seshan
Jan 24, 2011
Patent licensing firm Wi-LAN Inc said it would settle its patent litigations with U.S. chipmaker Broadcom Corp for an undisclosed amount.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 20, 2011
Corrects para 2 to say that the merger deal between Atheros and Qualcomm has not yet been completed
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 20, 2011
Canadian patent licensing firm Wi-LAN Inc said it signed a memorandum of understanding with Atheros Communications Inc to settle all lawsuits between it and the chip maker for an undisclosed amount.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 20, 2011
Intel Corp has reached a settlement with WiLAN Inc over lawsuits alleging the chipmaker infringed on a string of wireless and Internet patents, sending WiLAN's shares surging.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 14, 2011
Chip giant Intel will pay $1.5 billion to Nvidia as part of a cross licensing deal that brings an end to all of the outstanding legal disputes between the two parties.
Manikandan Raman
Jan 11, 2011
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a record 219,614 patents in 2010, with IBM grossing the highest number of patents followed by Samsung and Microsoft.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 10, 2011
An appeals court sided with Uniloc in its patent-infringement lawsuit against Microsoft Corp but ordered a new trial on damages.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 04, 2011
Technology licensing firm Wi-Lan Inc said it would get more time to discuss infringement settlements with defendants as a U.S. federal court extended the trial date by about a month, after redefining a term in a patent related to its wireless products.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 31, 2010
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen added details to the patent infringement lawsuit filed against Google, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, AOL, Yahoo!, Office Depot, OfficeMax and Staples in August.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 29, 2010
Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen relaunched a wide-ranging patent lawsuit against Apple Inc, Google Inc, Facebook and others with specific allegations that the companies are illegally using technology owned by his company.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 29, 2010
Patent wars punctuated the technology landscape in 2010. Lawsuits were filed with myriad motivations, some seeking permanent injunction, some monetary compensation and some bullying others to accept licensing agreements.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 28, 2010
South Korean chipmaker Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and several companies that use its chips do not infringe two Spansion Inc flash memory chip patents, the International Trade Commission said on Thursday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 23, 2010
Hoping for some monetary damages, Hopewell Culture & Design have sued Apple and Android makers for the infringement of double-click patent.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 23, 2010
A appeals court ruled in favor of Tessera Technologies Inc in a chip patent dispute with Qualcomm Inc , Spansion Inc , Freescale Semiconductor Inc , ATI Technologies and STMicroelectronics NV .
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 21, 2010
A trade panel that specializes in patent cases has agreed to hear the complaint of Motorola Inc's subsidiary Motorola Mobility against Microsoft Corp , the panel said on Tuesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 21, 2010
Unlikely cronies Apple, EMC and Oracle are part of the Microsoft-led consortium CPTN Holdings, which acquired 882 Novell patents as part of Attachmate's $2.2 billion acquisition of Novell.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 17, 2010
Nokia, the world's top cellphone maker by volume, has opened new fronts in Europe in its patent war with iPhone maker Apple, launching lawsuits in Germany and the Netherlands.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 16, 2010
