intellectual property rights

Rating around “no surprise” on the predictability chart, Mac-clone manufacturer Psystar has just received some unpleasant legal documentation from Apple, alleging counts for violation of its shrink wrap license, trademark and copyright infringement. The suit, filed at the federal district court for the northern district of California, suggests Apple has been infuriated not only by Psystar contrav..

Viacom has agreed to let Google strip identifying information from YouTube viewers' data before complying with a judge's order to hand over the records as part of a copyright infringement lawsuit. Viacom and other parties to the litigation agreed to allow YouTube to remove user names and computer Internet protocol (IP) addresses from the data to ensure protection of users' privacy, YouTube said..

3Com Corp. said Monday that Realtek Group will pay it $70 million as part of a settlement regarding the long-standing patent dispute between the two companies. On April 9, a jury awarded 3Com $45.3 million for past patent infringement by Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 3Com filed post-trial motions seeking enhanced damages and a permanent injunction. Upon satisfaction of Realtek's obligations ..

The tests, which detect mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, are performed in eight laboratories nationwide and cost up to $2500, a charge covered by state government-run clinics. Hundreds of such tests are done in Australia every year, often for close female relatives of women with certain types of breast cancer. A woman with a particular BRCA mutation faces up to an 85 per cent chance she..

EBay Inc scored a major legal victory on Monday when a federal judge absolved it of taking more steps to police fake Tiffany jewelry sold on its website and held that brand owners are ultimately responsible for protecting their own trademarks. All of Tiffany's trademark infringement claims against eBay were rejected -- a knockout blow to the four-year-old lawsuit that had been closely watched ..

Exide Industries Ltd has jointly applied for a global patent for an 'advanced maintenance free technology’ battery along with US automotive battery major Daramic. It has also filed a design registration application in India for the battery to be used in the Ratan Tatas'Rs 1-lakh car, Nano. "Daramic has supplied a special separator design for the 'advanced maintenance free technology' battery. ..

The next version of Windows, code named Windows 7, will include support for a multi-touch user interface. As a result, Apple has taken a precautionary step by filing a patent application seeking the creation of multi-touch sensitive desktop Macs. The filing (US Patent #20080165141) also suggests multi-touch approach beyond handhelds, notebooks and desktops. Microsoft is expected to launch Windo..

Rambus Inc., one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in high-speed memory architectures, announced it has filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against NVIDIA Corporation for patent infringement. The lawsuit alleges that a number of NVIDIA products with memory controllers for SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, GDDR, and GDDR3 S..

Buried deep in the pleadings of a patent infringement lawsuit in Minneapolis is a rare glimpse into a world of corporate intrigue highlighted by allegations of bribery to grab a lucrative foreign contract for producing government identity cards. The case shows how competitive the $1.2 billion-a-year world of personalized credit and identification cards has become, and it involves one of the mar..

A patent row is brewing up between Bajaj Auto and Royal Enfield over twin-spark technology with the Pune-based firm insisting it would 'study' Thunderbird Twinspark 350 cc of the latter, despite claims of non-infringement. "We would like to reiterate that the twin spark ignition being used in our new Thunderbird's unit construction engine (UCE) is Royal Enfield's own design and it does not inf..

Mannatech, Inc., a manufacturer of nutritional supplements, said Friday that the US District Court Judge found Glycoproducts International Inc. guilty of infringing both Mannatech patents at issue in the case. The Jury stated that Mannatech is entitled to judgment as a matter of law that Glycoproducts infringed and induced other to infringe Mannatech patent. The ruling is in addition to the jur..

A federal judge has ruled in favor of the Washington Redskins in a suit brought against them by Native Americans who claimed that the team nickname is offensive, according to the Associated Press. The group had been trying to get the courts to force the Redskins to abandon their famed insignia because they felt it exploited their heritage. The Redskins are one of the more valuable franchises..

The latest round in the ongoing wireless patent wars has been won by Samsung Electronics against InterDigital in patent proceedings before the U.S. International Trade Commission. The ITC staff recommendation that favored Samsung was issued this week and it was enough to send InterDigital's stock into a plunge. In a statement, InterDigital said the U.S. ITC staff recommended that Samsung, th..

Game maker Konami wants to stop Viacom's Harmonix from selling the highly popular Rock Band simulation game and instruments due to alleged patent infringements. Observers of patent litigation won't be surprised to learn Konami took its legal missive to the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. That court has a lengthy reputation for friendliness to patent holders. A cursory r..

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced today the opening of a new high-tech National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) in Northern Virginia that will help maximize member agencies’ authorities and resources to counter the global threat of intellectual property rights violations. “Intellectual property rights crimes are increasing in volume and complexity,..