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IBM hits server seller with patent suit
News IBM, which filed the suit last week in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, claims Platform Solutions (PSI) has violated the terms of a customer agreement with the technology... [07 Dec 2006]
RIM's nemesis slaps Palm with patent suit
News In a lawsuit filed in District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia on Monday, NTP asserted that Palm's products, services, systems and processes infringe on NTP's patents. Palm's... [07 Nov 2006]
Intel hit with energy-efficiency patent suit
News It alleges Intel violated 10 of its patents and that the intellectual property behind these patents is embodied in $100bn worth of chips sold by Intel. The patents relate to power... [12 Oct 2006]
Visto triumphs in Seven patent suit
News On Friday, a federal jury in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas found that Seven had wilfully infringed on three separate patents describing components of a mobile... [02 May 2006]
Microsoft triumphs over anti-piracy patent suit
News Software patents have irked the free software community and many programmers, and have been rejected in Europe. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed a... [28 Mar 2006]
RIM gets Supreme Court snub in patents saga
News The company has been claiming for several months that it has a software "workaround" to skirt the patents at the centre of the legal battle. In 2004, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the... [24 Jan 2006]
Apple seeks to Burst iPod patent threat
News Burst's attorneys then informed Apple that Burst believed Apple was infringing on its patents, according to the complaint. Apple denies that any of the patents in [the] suit are or have been infringed by... [09 Jan 2006]
BlackBerry maker again facing US freeze
News US District Judge James Spencer denied RIM's request to halt the proceedings until the US Patent and Trademark Office re-examines whether the patents are valid. Last December, a federal appeals court... [01 Dec 2005]
BlackBerry does JPEG patent deal
News After struggling to sell videoconferencing systems, the company began to examine its patents in 2000. Forgent sued Microsoft for patent infringement in the US District Court for the Eastern... [28 Oct 2005]
RIM patent appeal rebuffed by high court
News US District Court Judge James Spencer, who presided over the original decision, is expected to consider whether to enforce an injunction prohibiting RIM from selling, using or importing into the United States any... [27 Oct 2005]
Palm and RIM join hands for Treo
News RIM is currently appealing a 2002 judgment that found the company's popular wireless email device infringed on 11 patents held by Virginia-based patent holding company NTP. RIM has been able to sell its devices in the US... [17 Oct 2005]
Amazon ends patent dispute with $40m
News Soverain had alleged that Amazon and Gap infringed on five of its patents covering "core" aspects of ecommerce technology. The other two patents involve payment processing during a web session. Soverain,... [12 Aug 2005]
Patent spat costs RIM $6.5m and counting
News Details haven't been made public but the US Patent Trademark Office is currently reviewing the conditions of the eight patents in question, which NTP owns. The court is expected to send the case back to the US... [30 Jun 2005]
Microsoft patent ruling hits "Auto Play"
News Each motion sought to invalidate TVI patents cited in the case, on grounds of prior art and other causes. White ruled Microsoft offered insufficient evidence against the patents, and the case should go... [14 Oct 2004]
SCO suits see victory…
News IBM's countersuit includes three claims that SCO violated IBM patents, which SCO had sought to split into a separate case. SCO's case against IBM, which alleges that Big Blue violated its Unix contract with SCO by moving... [14 Jun 2004]
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