Baxter International Inc won over $23.5 million in damages and royalties in their patent infringement litigation with Fresenius USA Inc. The patent that Fresenius was found to infringe covers touch-screen interfaces. Source: law360.com March 19, 2012
PanoMap Technologies LLC, a Florida company, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple and Google in the U.S. PanoMap claims that its patent is infringed in the use by Google Maps’ Street View on the iPad and iPhone. PanoMap’s patent relates to a method and system for indicating the camera position, direction and field of […]
BackWeb Technologies announced that it reached a settlement in its patent infringement litigation against IBM Corp. BackWeb filed a lawsuit in September 2010 alleging patent infringement and seeking damages, an injunction and a declaration by the court that IBM’s software update technologies infringed on BackWeb’s patents. Source: bizjournals.com Feb 27, 2012
Apple settled a patent infringement lawsuit with Elan Microelectronics, a Taiwanese company, for $5 million. Elan Microelectronics sued Apple in 2009, claiming that its patents on touch-based technologies were infringed by the iPhone, iPod Touch and MacBook. Source: macworld.com.au January 9, 2012
This purchase follows Google acquisition of 2,000 of IBM’s patents last year. The most recent patent purchase includes patents directly related to mobile devices, as well as other technologies such as natural language translation, file backup, instant messaging, server load balancing and online learning. Source: foxbusiness.com January 5, 2012 –
An Administrative Office program of the U.S. Courts has initiated a patent litigation pilot program designed to keep patent cases from dragging on for years and incurring high expenses. Fourteen federal district courts were chosen for the program, aiming to assist judges develop expertise in patent litigation and help courts adopt local rules to speed […]
Seagate wins $525 million from Western Digital. Western Digital was ordered to pay an arbitration award of $525 million to its rival Seagate Technology. The $525 million does not include prejudgment interest, which has yet to be determined. Source: zdnet.com November 21, 2011
Medtronic Inc. wins its patent lawsuit against NuVasive by jury verdict and is awarded $101 million. this award my be higher since it only covers damages up to 2010. Source: bizjournals.com September 20, 2011 –
Microsoft Loses Patent Suit to i4i in Appeal Before Supreme Court Microsoft received a major blow on June 9, 2011when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected its appeal in its patent infringement lawsuit with i4i, a Canadian company that sued Microsoft in 2007. Source: betanews.com June 2011.
A US court has ordered German enterprise software provider SAP to pay Versata Software $345m for infringing on one of its patents. The $345m payout follows a ruling in August 2009 ordering SAP to pay Versata $138.6m for infringing on its patented technology. Source: zdnet.com May 17, 2011