Sentences with phrase «sue over patents»

Guest: it's referred to as a patent troll because it doesn't do anything but sue over patents.

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.

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.

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.

At the very least, make it illegal to sue over a patent that is not being used by the patent holder.

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.

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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?