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“Magic Words” Unnecessary in Identifying Field of Endeavor for Analogous Art
Written by: Raymond S. Lu & Daniel Kiang NETFLIX, INC. v. DivX, LLC Before Hughes, Stoll, and Stark. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary...
Patexia Insight 186: PGR vs. IPR: Analyzing Patent Challenge Outcomes
In the dynamic realm of intellectual property, remaining at the forefront is absolutely essential. Tomorrow marks the release of a pivotal milestone – the seventh edition of our...
Shire v. Blackburn: Drawing the Line Between FDA Drug Labeling Regulations and State Law on Product Liability
Written by: Ari Feinstein & Jane Dai, Ph.D. On June 2, 2023, drug manufacturer Shire US Inc. and related entity Shire LLC (collectively, “Shire”) asked the...
Feed tagged as "Apple":
Two weeks ago, SamMobile broke the news that Samsung had just filed a new trademark application trying to obtain protection for the mark... Read More »
When Apple and Qualcomm finally settled their dispute back in 2019, eyebrows were raised given that the licensing agreement had a six-year ... Read More »
Just the week before, Sonrai Memory filed several patent infringement lawsuits targeting a group of tech companies, including Google... Read More »
Just yesterday, the European Union's Court of Justice ruled that Apple isn’t the only company allowed to use this trademark from ... Read More »
Just last Friday, June 11, the U.S District Court for the Northern District of California’s grant of a motion to dismiss for Apple and Samsung in a patent... Read More »
Out of 20,000+ patents that Apple Inc. licensed from Qualcomm. Id., Apple is seeking to cancel two in Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Inc., 992 F.3d 1378 (Fed. Cir. 2021)... Read More »
Patent Judgments & Awards
In April 2018, a jury in the Eastern District of Texas awarded VirnetX Inc. (“VirnetX”) a total of more than... Read More »
In DSS Technology Management, Inc. v. Apple Inc., [2016-2523, 2016-2524] (March 23, 2018), the Federal Circuit reversed the decision of the PTAB, finding claims... Read More »
In Personal Web Technologies, LLC v. Apple, Inc., [2016-1174] (February 14, 2017), the Federal Circuit affirmed the Board’s claim construction but vacated the... Read More »
Last week we reported on the top 10 all-time IPR petitioners and learned that Apple, with 267 IPR challenges filed from 2012 through 2016, was at the top. This... Read More »
In a few short years China’s patent system has gone from an IP rights wannabe to one of the most responsive and patent-friendly systems in the world... Read More »
Aging baby boomers, exposed to a lifetime of loud music, are more demanding than past generations about the quality of what and how they hear... Read More »
The BYOD phenomenon sweeping enterprise comes with a price. IT professionals agree mobile devices help reach corporate objectives, but don’t want any part of... Read More »
If you happen to have an iPhone 4S handy, go ahead and ask Siri about a patent lawsuit that was filed April 25, 2012, in U.S. District Court for the District of... Read More »
NPEs historically get a pretty raw deal when it comes to PR, with article after article amounting against the practice of essentially turning patents into... Read More »
Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University has launched a suit alleging that Apple's use of Siri in its iPhone and future versions of its iPad infringes two U.S. ... Read More »
Replacing cheap labor with a million robots is a curious fix to China’s economic downturn. Especially when that cheap labor is employed by a Chinese growth... Read More »
It’s beginning to feel like a TV series, a weekly patent war drama. Apple and Samsung have consistently been going back and forth with claims of IP... Read More »
Comments
Leonard PrietHow do we stop this sort of waste patenting? Obviously these patents shouldn't have been granted in the first place, but now that they're out there, we can't just drop the whole system...
Jun 25, 2012
Gena PatentNo matter what one's opinion of market competition and/or patent enforcement, there is one rather telling fact in this case: reportedly, it came out in court that not even Samsung's own legal counsel could tell the difference, visually, between the iPad and the Galaxy Tab. This seems to me to present a pretty clear case for patent litigation. http://www.generalpatent.com/blog
Jul 3, 2012
Members of the tech media are falling all over themselves to weigh in on the Microsoft Surface. Unveiled during what many refer to as an Apple-like spectacle, the... Read More »
Apple’s iPhone, launched in 2007, has taken the world by storm, vaulting Apple from also-ran in the “PC wars” to the biggest, richest company in the ... Read More »
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Anonymous What's difference of 'smartphone' and 'communicator' ?
May 22, 2012
