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EMC and Hitachi agree to cross-license patents
News Storage makers EMC and Hitachi on Tuesday settled their patent-infringement suits and countersuits, agreeing to cross-license patents and exchange technology. EMC filed suit against Hitachi in April 2002, alleging that HDS shipped software that...
[March 4, 2003, 14:54]
Broadcom concedes Intel patent battle
News Under the new agreements, the two chipmakers and their respective subsidiaries can cross-license each other's technologies for products with patents filed before 7 August, 2008. The companies said they do not plan to cross-license patents regarding...
[August 8, 2003, 15:20]
Microsoft pips Apple to iPod patent
News In general, our policy is to allow others to license our patents so they can use our innovative methods in their products," David Kaefer, Microsoft's director of intellectual property licensing, said in a statement.
[August 15, 2005, 10:15]
Compaq sues for patent infringement
News The suit lasted almost two years, but then in June of 1996 Packard Bell reached a settlement to pay license fees for 5 years for use of the patents. When a company like eMachines comes along -- without cross-license protection -- and starts...
[July 27, 1999, 8:56]
Microsoft to pay millions more to Sun?
News In addition, the filing said, if Microsoft makes the payments for all 10 years, the companies will automatically strike a patent cross-licensing agreement--a perpetual license to use all of each other's patents.
[April 9, 2004, 20:35]
Samba: TomTom suit tries to undermine GPL
News Zink added that the covenants, which also extend to those companies, such as Novell, which agree to cross-license, "give understanding and certainty to people". Microsoft's suit against TomTom alleges that the GPS company infringes on Microsoft...
[March 10, 2009, 11:46]
Google joins open source-patent network
News Google's membership of the group means it will, like other OIN members, agree to cross-license open source-related patents to other OIN members free of charge. The OIN was founded by IBM and others in response to a growing sense that software...
[August 8, 2007, 9:34]
A Year Ago: 3Com, IBM to swap more technology
News 3Com and IBM Monday announced a cross-licensing agreement to license exclusive patents in the areas of networking and communications. Under the terms of the agreement, 3Com and IBM will each receive a license under all patents that relate to their...
[August 3, 2000, 7:01]
Microsoft's open source side-step
Blog Clause 2b states that "each Contributor hereby grants Recipient a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under Licensed Patents". Had Microsoft been the Contributor, it would have essentially agreed to licence whatever patents it...
[March 14, 2009, 12:15]
Nokia vs Apple: The hidden scandal
News Nokia has taken Apple to court over the iPhone's use of 10 core patents covering basic wireless technology. And when it is impossible to bypass the patents they hold, it is impossible to break their stranglehold except through protracted, expensive...
[October 26, 2009, 15:29]
Microsoft, Lexmark ink patent cross-licensing deal
News Under the arrangement, Lexmark will license its patents for its printers and multifunction devices, as well as its other products, to Microsoft. In a move to tie their collaboration tighter, Microsoft and Lexmark on Tuesday announced that they have...
[March 18, 2009, 14:16]
US Report: FTC takes action against Intel, alleges abuse
News Intel restored Compaq's access to technical information only after Compaq agreed to cross-license its patents with Intel," according to the FTC. If Intel can use its monopoly position in the market for microprocessors to prevent other firms from...
[June 9, 1998, 9:34]
VIA deal with IDT keeps heat on Intel
News As part of the deal, the two companies have also agreed to cross-license each other's patents, including those Centaur patents acquired by VIA in the deal. "(Our) acquisition of IDT's Centaur design subsidiary further solidifies our design...
[August 6, 1999, 9:10]
Patent nonsense: the case for unfettered development
News Companies like Acacia Research who "develop, acquire and license" software patents will prosper without ever writing a line of code. The alternative is to build a defensive portfolio of software patents, so that if a big business accuses you of...
[February 18, 2005, 15:45]
Painting over the patent earthquake
Leader Software patents remain the smouldering volcano at the heart of the industry. Companies with major open source strategies such as Red Hat, IBM, Sun and Novell itself have committed not to use their relevant patents except defensively.
[November 21, 2006, 13:11]
Microsoft joins Fuji Xerox in patent deal
News The deal is the latest in a series of such cross-licensing deals for Microsoft, which has worked in recent years to both file more patents and to more aggressively license its technology. In a statement, the companies said Fuji Xerox will obtain...
[March 22, 2007, 8:47]
Patent fears haunt developers down under
News People are pooling and accumulating patents so that they can cross license with other players and make it harder for the little guys," MacPhail said. "Patents are being used as an offensive measure," John MacPhail, a partner at Baker & McKenzie...
[November 4, 2004, 10:43]
Microsoft on trial: DOJ gives heavy memo fire
News We also had a patent dispute that was resolved with cross-license and signed (sic) payment to Apple," Anderson wrote in the following paragraph. In addition to the browser deal, the note also mentioned a widely reported $150 million, non-voting...
[October 28, 1998, 9:19]
IBM settles copyright suit for $400m
News The settlement also calls for the companies to exchange technical information for interoperability of IBM and Compuware S/390 architecture and programs, as well as to enter a cross-licensing agreement that covers patents for both companies...
[March 22, 2005, 16:30]
Intel seeks chip set domination
News Aside from cross-licensing,) we don't intend to license this technology to a third-party," said Malloy. And that is protected by a combination of patents and trade secrets. "(Intel is) locking out a lot of competition and that's just bad for the...
[March 16, 1998, 9:47]
