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The expiration of a 17 year old neodymium magnet patent held by Hitachi Metals Ltd (US 5,654,651 - CMOS static logic circuit) may open up the market and increase... Read More »
The US ITC ruled this past Monday that Seagate and Avago Technologies Ltd's LSI do not infringe upon patents granted to Taiwan-based Realtek Semiconductor... Read More »
Microsoft filed a patent application titled "Wearable Behavior-Based Vision System" earlier this week. The patent is for a pair of augmented reality smart... Read More »
A Delaware federal judge ruled earlier this week that Sprint Nextel subsidiaries have not proven that a license between HP and Alcatel-Lucent covers asserted wireless... Read More »
WiLAN and Nokia Networks have agreed to a broad multi-year agreement which grants Nokia a license to a portfolio of WiLAN's wireless technology patents. The... Read More »
Microsoft and Canon have signed a patent cross-licensing deal which covers a broad range of products and services offered by the two companies, including digital... Read More »
Xerox has engaged ICAP Patent Brokerage to auction 239 US patents families related to projects from all five of its global research centers. The patents and... Read More »
Earlier this week flash array vendor Pure Storage acquired more than 100 storage and other related patents from IBM in an effort to protect itself against lawsuits... Read More »
LG Electronics scored another victory earlier this week against Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a non-practicing entity set up by the Taiwanese... Read More »
Earlier this week San Francisco based RPX launched a free tool aimed at consolidating patent data related to demand letters that NPEs send to small business owners... Read More »
Fresh off Tesla CEO Elon Musk's announcement that the electric car manufacturer will not sue anyone using its powertrain integration patents in good faith, the... Read More »
A civil trial between Rembrandt Social Media and Facebook is officially underway in Virginia's federal court. The lawsuit alleges that Dutch computer... Read More »
Silicon Valley based patent licensing company Inventergy Global, Inc. has acquired a portfolio of 77 patents and applications related to IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) ... Read More »
The US Supreme Court handed down two rulings to the specialized appeals court that hears patent cases earlier this week. In Limelight Networks v. Akamai the... Read More »
A recent report authored by two Apple lawyers and an Intel executive titled "The Smartphone Royalty Stack: Surveying Royalty Demands for the Components within... Read More »
According to Thompson Reuters, 706 patent applications were filed for technology related to hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," in 2013, marking a 28%... Read More »
In response to a patent infringement lawsuit that was brought to a close earlier this month, Apple is asking that Samsung products violating its "quick... Read More »
Nintendo won a patent infringement lawsuit filed back in 2009 earlier this week related to their DS and DSi handheld gaming systems. Both the USPTO and the Japanese... Read More »
Medtronic (MDT) will pay Edwards Lifesciences (EW) at least $1.1B to settle a patent dispute over minimally invasive heart valves. Edwards will receive $750M up front... Read More »
In a joint statement made last week, Apple and Google outlined a plan to settle existing smartphone-patent lawsuits and work together on patent reform. The legal... Read More »