It’s looking more and more like Apple only has friends in the US. After Samsung won a patent dispute in Germany, a court in the Netherlands has also found that Samsung didn’t infringe any of the
A US company has sued Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and others for allegedly infringing a patent covering technology directed to digital photo processing. Fo2go, a non-practising entity (NPE
smart phone lines manufactured by Kyocera. The patents were issued between 2002 and 2007 by the US Patent and Trademark Office and cover functions used in smart phones to improve the battery life of a
Sometimes winning a lawsuit may not be the best business outcome in an IP matter, said panellists at AIPLA’s 120th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on Thursday. Phil Petti, chief IP counsel at constr...
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed the invalidation of a number of claims in a patent owned by telecommunications conglomerate AT&T. The court found that the patent, US
The US Patent and Trademark Office has published a blockchain-related patent that was filed by Mastercard. Called “Method and system for payment card verification via blockchain”, the patent was
Trade Organization (WTO) against China. In March, the US filed a complaint at the WTO accusing China of breaking WTO rules by denying US companies “basic patent rights”. “For many years, China has
Apple and Samsung have settled their long-running design patent dispute, one month after a jury awarded $539 million to Apple in the clash. District Judge Lucy Koh, of the US District Court for the
Japanese conglomerate Hitachi. The company sued ZTE for patent infringement at the district court in November 2016. The patents in question are US numbers 5,396,443; 6,748,317; 8,339,493; 8,736,729; 6
Vacuum maker Dyson dismissed an appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit earlier this week, bringing a four-year design patent battle with competitor SharkNinja to an end. Back in