A US court has handed car maker Ford a double victory in its dispute with Eagle Harbor Holdings (EHH) after ruling that it was not liable for patent infringement and that its trade secrets were
with IV on undisclosed terms in 2012 and 2013 respectively, but legal proceedings between IV and Trend Micro are due to start in May 2015. The ‘610 patent covers a system for detecting viruses, while
Samsung has successfully fended off a $30 million patent lawsuit after a Texas court dismissed an inventor’s claim that the company infringed a patent covering liquid crystal display (LCD
Sony has again sued rival Fujifilm for patent infringement over use of magnetic tape media. In the case, filed at the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Friday, May 5, Sony
Chinese tech giant Huawei is taking rival Samsung to court in China and the United States over alleged patent infringement. It is the first case of a domestic manufacturer taking on the world's
funds for marketing companies to petition the US Patent and Trademark Office to institute inter partes review petitions against patents owned by NPEs. “The insurance will permit the insured party to
Technology companies IBM and Microsoft have helped to set up a global database aimed at improving accuracy of patent information. The Open Register of Patent Ownership (OROPO), launched on 15, is a
2015 witnessed notable progress in China’s IP pledge financing. Some 2,000 enterprises secured 56 billion yuan with patent pledge all through the year. Sampling results on 20 patent pledge projects
Broadcom for the chips it sells during the "sunset period" ending January 31, 2009. The judge set royalties at 6 percent for a patent covering video compression for mobile phones and at 4.5 percent for
In 2013, BYD ranked the 5th place with its 2,099 national invention patents in force, just following behind Huawei, ZTE, Sinopec and SMIC. Meanwhile, it acquired 340 invention patent grants and filed