The move opens a new front in the continuing legal spat between the South Korean companies and Osram over light-emitting-diode lighting technology, as they struggle for dominance in a fast-growing LED lighting market. LED lights, once used primarily in indicator lamps, are now installed in television screens and aviation and automotive lighting, as well as … Continue reading
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President #Obama Honors Nation's Top Scientists and Innovators #potus #uspto #patent #innovation #science
President Obama Honors Nation’s Top Scientists and Innovators On September 27, 2011, President Obama named five inventors as recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation and seven eminent researchers as recipients of the National Medal of Science, the highest honors bestowed by the United States government on scientists, engineers, and inventors. The recipients … Continue reading
Big win for #Monsanto in #seed #patent case
Monsanto Co. has scored a win for its genetically altered seed patents at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The decision was also a victory for Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, including leading appellate advocate Seth Waxman, the chairman of its appellate and Supreme Court practice group in Washington. In a … Continue reading
Google and publishers get closer to securing book settlement #google #googlebooks #lawsuit
Google and publishers get closer to securing book settlement Google and publishers have told a US judge that they are close to settling a lawsuit over the internet giant’s controversial book-scanning scheme, but have agreed that the six-year old copyright infringement case will proceed to trial. US District Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan approved a … Continue reading
#Patents Post-Grant: Older Patents Soon Subject to #USPTO Inter Partes #Review #patentreform
Pre-1999 Patent Filings No longer Immune to Inter Partes Challenge The AIA changes the USPTO standard for initiating inter partes patent reexamination; this change will take effect upon enactment, tomorrow. A second important date provision is the one year anniversary of enactment as it may foreclose inter partes options altogether for defendants currently involved in … Continue reading
#Lawsuit Seeks the Removal of a #Digital #Book Collection #copyright #infringement
Lawsuit Seeks the Removal of a Digital Book Collection Three major authors’ groups and eight individual authors filed suit against a partnership of research libraries and five universities on Monday, arguing that their initiative to digitize millions of books constituted copyright infringement. The lawsuit, filed in United States District Court for the Southern District of … Continue reading
#Cyber #Crime Costs Companies Millions Every Year #law #legal #technology
Cyber Crime Costs Companies Millions Every Year The Second Annual Cost of Cyber Crime Study by the Ponemon Institute makes plain that cyber attacks are not going away and are financially painful for victim companies. Indeed, the median annualized cost of cyber crime for a company is $5.9 million, with a range of between $1.5 … Continue reading
#Dolby, Research In Motion Settle #Patent #Dispute #RIM #royality #lawsuit #infringement #law #business #technology
RIM will pay “standard terms,” San Francisco-based Dolby said in a statement today, settling patent-infringement lawsuits filed in June in the U.S. and Germany. While financial terms weren’t disclosed, Dolby told analysts on a conference call last month it was counting on $15 million in back royalties from RIM in the fiscal fourth quarter, as … Continue reading
Smith-Leahy #America #Invents Act to Become #Law – #Senate Passes H.R. 1249 Without Amendment
Senate Vote Sends Patent Reform Legislation to White House In a bipartisan 89–9 vote, the Senate has passed H.R. 1249 without amendment. The Smith-Leahy America Invents Act will become law once signed by President Obama within the next week or so. Full text Voting 89-9, the Senate on September 8, 2011, passed H.R. 1249 without … Continue reading
Carol Bartz fired over phone by Yahoo's Chairman of the Board #yahoo #ceo #carolbartz #business
Bartz Fired; Morse Named Interim CEO; Yahoo Board Creates Circle Of Elders To Decide Company Fate Carol Bartz, the former Yahoo chief executive who was ousted from her position Tuesday, has given her first post-firing interview to Fortune — and it’s a doozy. Using her characteristically salty language, Bartz described how she felt about being fired from … Continue reading
HTC sues Apple (with Google's patents) #htc #apple #google #patent #litigation #infringement #lawsuit
Traces of a removed Apple Inc. logo and an HTC Corp. logo decorate a store front in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg Google, which distributes the Android operating system used in HTC phones, isn’t a party in Apple’s patent complaint at the ITC. Illustration: Bloomberg Google had taken ownership of the patents less … Continue reading
Suven Life Sciences secures #patents for NCEs in Australia, New Zealand #biotech #innovation #nce #neurodegenerative
Suven Life Sciences secures patents for NCEs in Australia, New Zealand Suven Life Sciences (Suven) announced the grant of four product patents, which included three from Australia and one from New Zealand corresponding to the new chemical entities (NCEs) for the treatment of disorders associated with Neurodegenerative diseases and these patents are valid through 2027. … Continue reading
Bump Technologies: exchange contact info and other data with other people by tapping your phones together
BUMP TECHNOLOGIES: EXCHANGE CONTACT INFO AND OTHER DATA WITH OTHER PEOPLE BY TAPPING YOUR PHONES TOGETHER Article Source: Click here In this post, Internet Lawyer and Mobile App (Software) Patent Attorney, Advocate Rahul Dev,discusses about bump patent application. Founded by David Lieb, Andy Huibers, and Jake Mintz, Bump lets you exchange contact info and other data with other … Continue reading
Oracle's $1.3 billion #infringement bid rejected #copyright #sap #oracle
Oracle’s $1.3 billion infringement bid rejected German-based business software company SAP has won a reversal of a $1.3 billion copyright infringement ruling that Oracle received in a November 2010 trial. US District Judge of California Phyllis Hamilton granted SAP’s motion to throw out the award, finding it "grossly excessive" and reduced it to $272 million. … Continue reading
Ninth Circuit Withdraws Holding That Characters Do Not Function as #Trademarks
Ninth Circuit Withdraws Holding That Characters Do Not Function as Trademarks In an unexpected decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an amended opinion in the closely watched case Fleischer Studios, Inc. v. A.V.E.L.A., Inc., No. 09-56317 (9th Cir. Aug. 19, 2011) involving trademark and copyright infringement of the cartoon character … Continue reading
U.S. Moves to Block AT&T Merger with T-Mobile #unfaircompetition #competitionlaw
The Justice Department sued on Wednesday to block AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile, a deal that would create the largest carrier in the country and reshape the industry. “The department filed its lawsuit because we believe the combination of AT&T and T-Mobile would result in tens of millions of consumers all across … Continue reading
