Samsung pays $15.7m to Bluetooth patent-owning, um, troll- The Inquirer Patents 8,023,580 and 8,457,228 relate to modems and date from 1997, some three years after Bluetooth appeared at Ericsson.Rembrandt IP, which is keen on defending rights in this area, argued that Samsung's products that use Bluetooth 2.0 and over infringe... Read More

RPX OPEN(SM) Program Brings Visibility to Patent Transactions RPX Corporation today launched the RPX Open Patent Exchange Network (OPEN), aimed at providing visibility into patent transactions. Companies and other patent owners participating in RPX OPEN pledge to notify RPX and each other at least 45 days prior to agreeing to transfer patents to a... Read More

Qualcomm nears $1 billion deal resolving China antitrust dispute | Reuters Qualcomm Inc is likely to pay China a record fine of around $1 billion, ending a 14-month government investigation into anti-competitive practices, after the U.S. chipmaker and the regulator made significant progress during talks last week.The deal, which may... Read More

U.S. court orders Symantec to pay $17 mln for patent infringement Symantec Corp, maker of the popular Norton antivirus software, was ordered to pay $17 million in damages on Friday after a federal jury in Delaware found it had violated two patents owned by Intellectual Ventures, a major patent licensing... Read More

TSMC Sues Former Employee for Giving Samsung Trade Secrets - Patently Apple Trade secrets are all forms and types of financial, business, scientific, technical, economic or engineering information, including patterns, plans, compilations, program devices, formulas, designs, prototypes, methods, techniques, processes, procedures, programs or codes. The FBI states that U.S national... Read More