At the very least, make it illegal to
sue over a patent that is not being used by the patent holder.
Even with Microsoft applying a licensing tax through its patent portfolio and threats of legal action and Apple weighing in to
sue over patent infringements, manufacturers that adopted Android have done well out of it.
AWS got rid of a controversial clause that prevented customers from
suing over patent infringement.
The women - friendly dating app dissed its $ 13 bln rival in an ad after Match
sued over patent infringement.
Guest: it's referred to as a patent troll because it doesn't do anything but
sue over patents.
Recent public comments by Apple show that the Cupertino gadget company has reason to believe it's the most popular target of so - called «patent trolls,» companies whose only business is
suing over patents.
When Ken Cooper was
sued over a patent on scavenger hunts, his small business wouldn't have survived if it weren't for Alice.
On the other hand, it is a safe assumption that Motorola picked its strongest patents before, and is now
suing over patents that it previously considered less strong than others.
Not exact matches
In O'Connor's case, FindTheBest was notified that it is being
sued for $ 50,000
over a
patent for a «system and method for facilitating bilateral and multilateral decision - making.»
Apple, which
sued Qualcomm in January
over patent royalties, is a sponsor of The App Association.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Apple also have
sued Qualcomm
over patent licenses.
Alphabet is
suing Uber for
patent infringement
over a crucial self - driving technology called lidar, which is a laser - based radar.
It certainly stands in stark contrast to the approach of tech companies like Apple, which are
suing their rivals all
over the world for infringing on
patents like the one it holds for rounded corners.
The public company has previously
sued other rivals OkCupid, 2RedBeans and Zoosk
over this
patent.
A New Jersey inventor arrives late to the «
suing Sony» party
over his rumble technology
patents, 8.5 % of young males are pathologically addicted to video games, and more await in this week's CheatCC Podcast.
The company has been
sued over two
patents that have to do with electronic screens.
Getting back to Apple and Motorola, those two companies are
suing each other
over more than 40 U.S.
patents.
Despite its many
patents, Microsoft rarely
sues over infringements.
The worry is that Microsoft has come to this too late: until recently it was more interested in
suing Barnes & Noble
over Android
patents than becoming its best friend.
Continue reading «BlackBerry
sues Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram
over patent infringement»
Samsung's countersuit is a typical move in the tech world, with major firms holding thousands of
patents routinely
suing and countersuing each other
over patent issues.
Motorola Mobility is being
sued by a Google - funded company
over a
patent infringement allegation into Android smartphones.
Microsoft is being
sued for
patent infringement
over motion - sensing technology used in its blockbuster gaming accessory, the Microsoft Kinect.
McRo, Inc. was
suing Activision
over patents that dealt with R...
And, in a Goliath - vs - David moment, Toyota has pre-emptively
sued EDI
over its intellectual property: a portfolio of fundamental
patents on hybrid / drivetrain / electronics.
Arent Fox, representing Advanced Aerospace Technologies, Inc., in February
sued The Boeing Company and a subsidiary, Insitu, Inc., seeking more than $ 160 million in damages in a
patent infringement suit
over technology for the retrieval of unmanned aerial vehicles without a runway.
These challenges include the scope of discovery implicated when, for example, multinational technology companies
sue one another for
patent infringement
over a blockbuster product.
Previously,
patent owners could
sue wherever they could get jurisdiction
over a defendant.
Supposedly this is to address «
patent trolls» which
sue companies
over patents.
It's widely known that no one gets
sued as often
over patents as Apple these days, and Samsung is also a defendant in countless
patent infringement cases.
Netflix, among others, has also been
sued for its download content feature, by Blackbird Technologies, a
patent trolling / squatting firm,
over the
patent governing downloadable video content.
Another interesting «troll» stat, one not revealed in Apple's filings: Samsung, a company that has been
sued by arch-rival Apple
over patents, is the trolls» fifth most popular target.
In this edition, we find Microsoft
suing former partner Motorola
over, what else,
patent infringement in the area of smartphones.
Oracle had
sued Google in 2010
over both
patent and copyright violations, but after two cycles, the case matter was narrowed down to whether Google's use of the definition and SSO of Oracle's Java APIs (determined to be copyrightable) was within fair use.
In the meantime, recent news stories mean the frustration
over the
patent system is likely to mount: this week, a
patent troll obtained a judgment worth potentially hundreds of millions against Google
over old Lycos
patents, while the cable industry
sued to stop what it calls a troll's «illegal conspiracy.»
Earlier this year, we wrote about IV
suing a florist
over its
patent on crew assignments.
Hot on the heels of Apple
suing Qualcomm
over its Snapdragon processors, Qualcomm has fired back by filing a
patent lawsuit (a counter-countersuit?)
However, in a somewhat rare turn of events, Apple was
sued earlier by the existing division of Nokia Corp.
over patent infringements in Asia, Europe and the US.
A recent Planet Money episode explored a company that's
sued nearly every workout supplement manufacturer in the U.S.
over a
patent on an amino acid that occurs in nature, a
patent that originated at Stanford University.
Microsoft earlier
sued Samsung
over a
patent cross-licensing disagreement that it signed in 2011.
It's a strange list of
patents that Nokia is
suing Apple
over - and not a list we'd have expected would have come so late in the game.
Blackberry is also
suing Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram
over patent infringement.
As a matter of fact, the Galaxy Alpha is as blatant an iPhone 5 ripoff as Huawei's sexy Ascend P7, but there's a clear difference between Huawei and Samsung: Huawei hasn't been
sued repeatedly by Apple
over the past few years
over allegations of design and
patent theft.
Remember Lodsys, the
patent troll that began
suing a bunch of indie iOS developers back in 2011
over their use of in - app purchases?