Dish Network told to pay USD 200 million to TiVo
U.S. District Court judge David Folsom has told Dish Network and EchoStar to pay around USD 200 in penalties to TiVo.
This penalty is for violating a permanent injunction for using a modified technology that enables a user to rewind and pause live television broadcast.
The [...]
Actus targets Apple and others with a patent lawsuit
Apple is target of yet another patent related lawsuit.
Actus has filed a lawsuit against Apple and several other companies claiming that they are infringing on their patented technologies.
The lawsuit was filed in May this year in the Eastern District of Texas.
In case of Apple, Actus [...]
Microsoft told to pay USD 200 million in a patent lawsuit
US based software giant Microsoft has been asked by the court to pay Canadian software firm i4i Ltd $200 million in damages for infringing a patent.
Microsoft has said that they are planning appeal this judgement.
I4I had filed the lawsuit against Microsoft in 2007 [...]
Amazon files a patent lawsuit against Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications had recently filed a lawsuit against Amazon claiming Amazon Kindle eBook reader was infringing on their patented technologies.
Amazon is now fighting back as they have now filed a similar patent related lawsuit that claims that Discovery is infringing on their patented technologies!
Amazon is claiming in their [...]
Apple, Dell, HP sued by The PACid Group
The PACid Group has filed a lawsuit against 19 companies including Apple, Atheros, Broadcom, Dell, Edimax, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lenovo, Marvell, Realtek, and Toshiba.
The lawsuit claims that these companies infringe upon their patented technologies.
The patent involved in this lawsuit is U.S. patent No. 5,963,646, “Secure deterministic [...]
Microsoft ends patent dispute with TomTom
Microsoft has announced that they are now ending their patent dispute filed against TomTom.
Microsoft said that TomTom would be paying them an undisclosed amount for this settlement.
Microsoft had filed the lawsuit against TomTom last month claiming their products were infringing on Microsoft’s owned patents.
TomTom responded with a [...]
TomTom files a patent lawsuit against Microsoft
Navigation device maker TomTom has revealed that they have filed a lawsuit against US based software giant Microsoft.
Incidentally, the two companies are already involved in a similar lawsuit filed by Microsoft sometime back.
Not many details are available on what kind of a lawsuit TomTom has filed [...]
Tata applies for patents related to Nano small car
Tata Nano is all set to be launched later this month.
The company has applied for patents to protect as many as 37 inventions and innovations which are connected to this revolutionary new small car.
Tata is also planning to file intellectual property rights claim for the [...]
RIM to pay Nokia patent related royalties
World’s leading mobile phone maker Nokia has stated that Research in Motion would be paying it an up-front payment and royalties related to usage of its wireless technology patents.
Nokia said that RIM has just renewed a multi-year patent license agreement with it.
The details of the deal signed between [...]
Mformation Technologies suing Research in Motion for patent infringement
Mformation Technologies has announced that they have now filed a lawsuit against Research in Motion for patent infringement.
Research in Motion is the company behind the hugely popular Blackberry platform and mobile devices.
Mformation is claiming that RIM infringes on two of their owned patents in their products and [...]
