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Microsoft patent-infringement case to go to trial
News The motion also seeks a ruling that any Microsoft infringement of TVI's patents is not wilful, because there is no evidence Microsoft knew of the TVI patents before the suit. A federal judge ruled against Microsoft on Wednesday in a patent suit...
[October 14, 2004, 9:00]
Microsoft sued again for patent infringement
News During one of those meetings, Priceline said Microsoft CEO Bill Gates told Priceline founder Jay Walker that he wasn't going to let patent infringement claims stand in his way. Gates went on to say that many other companies were suing Microsoft for...
[October 14, 1999, 9:47]
Rambus sues Hitachi over patent infringement
News Rambus Tuesday filed suit against Hitachi for alleged wilful patent infringement on several semiconductor products, seeking injunctions against the manufacture, use and sale of several memory and microprocessor products, and seeking punitive...
[January 19, 2000, 14:57]
Palm accused of patent infringement
News NTP, the company behind the epic patent-infringement lawsuit against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, is now going after Palm. The US Patent and Trademark Office re-examined them earlier this year and issued final rejection notices on two of...
[November 7, 2006, 8:36]
Apple accused of patent infringement
News The company was involved in a similar patent infringement dispute with Microsoft last year that ended with a $60m (£30m) settlement and a Microsoft licence to the Burst technology. Burst.com has filed a countersuit against Apple claiming that the...
[April 18, 2006, 9:40]
Nvidia accused of patent infringement
News Graphics processor manufacturer Nvidia has been accused of patent infringement by OPTi, a company based in California. In a statement released on Tuesday, OPTi announced that it has filed a complaint against Nvidia Corporation in the Eastern...
[October 20, 2004, 16:50]
Verizon sues Vonage for VoIP patent infringement
News The bad news for Internet phone provider Vonage keeps piling up, as the company now faces a patent infringement lawsuit from telephone giant Verizon Communications. On Monday, less than a month after the company's disappointing debut on the New...
[June 20, 2006, 9:50]
SanDisk to sue STMicroelectronics for patent infringement
News SanDisk has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against rival STMicroelectronics and has asked a trade commission to halt shipments of its competitor's flash memory into the United States. SanDisk, the leader in flash memory cards, said Monday it...
[October 18, 2004, 16:45]
RIM faces patent-infringement lawsuit
News Mformation, a maker of mobile-device management software, said on Friday that it has sued Research In Motion for patent infringement. This does not mark the first time RIM has been sued for patent infringement.
[November 3, 2008, 10:23]
Apple accused of patent infringement
Talkback this is a data stream just delivered faster, where can a "patent" be involved in a speed change. No therefore this is just another invalid software patent. Is there special hardware involved?
[April 18, 2006, 11:09]
Verizon sues Vonage for VoIP patent infringement
Talkback If they developed it themselves using 3rd party stuff (could verizon be the 3rd party ;)) then i don't see what they have to worry about :D
[June 29, 2006, 9:59]
Verizon sues Vonage for VoIP patent infringement
Talkback Getting sick of these "two lawyers and a dog" companies trying to soak hard working developers for cash using trivial patents.even the larger guys are turning on each other now.very very sad as usual the only winners are the leeches the poor old...
[July 12, 2006, 21:32]
Court reverses Microsoft patent-infringement ruling
News A US federal court on Tuesday reversed an earlier ruling that Microsoft's product-activation technology infringed on another company's patent, overturning a $388m verdict in the case. The victory in the case comes as Microsoft is awaiting the...
[September 30, 2009, 8:22]
Compaq sues for patent infringement
News When a company like eMachines comes along -- without cross-license protection -- and starts gobbling up chunks of the market, it has no defence against a patent suit," said Brookwood, adding that Compaq, Dell and other PC makers have already cross...
[July 27, 1999, 8:56]
Cyrix sues Intel for patent infringement
News Like Digital yesterday, Cyrix says Intel infringed its patents in Pentium, Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors. Cyrix is pursuing an injunction and unspecified damages and fees.
[May 14, 1997, 17:01]
HP, Acer settle patent case
News HP announced on Sunday that it has settled its patent-infringement lawsuits against rival PC maker Acer. HP sued Acer in October 2007, alleging seven patent violations. The confidential settlement agreement resolves three US federal court lawsuits...
[June 9, 2008, 10:43]
Appeal underway against Eolas ruling
News Microsoft has filed a brief asking the US Court of Appeals to overturn a $565m (£307m) patent-infringement judgment. In its brief, Microsoft asked that the infringement judgment be reversed. The 174-page document, filed on 3 June, attacks a US...
[June 9, 2004, 9:05]
Intel vs. Via - now the battle's global
News Intel expanded its legal fight with Via Technologies on Wednesday by filing patent infringement suits in Germany, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. For its part, Via disputes the contention and has filed its own patent infringement case in Texas.
[September 27, 2001, 9:02]
Nokia sued over mobile patents
News Qualcomm has filed a suit against Nokia accusing the handset maker of patent infringement. Broadcom had previously filed its own patent infringement suit against Qualcomm. Qualcomm is now seeking monetary damages from Nokia and a ban on the Finnish...
[November 7, 2005, 13:30]
$8m advertising patent victory for Yahoo
News Online marketer Miva has agreed to pay Yahoo $8m (£4m) and ongoing royalties to settle a patent infringement lawsuit over pay-per-click technology used in search result ads. The search giant agreed to license Yahoo pay-per-click technology, as well...
[August 17, 2005, 9:40]
