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Impax Laboratories Inc. confirmed Friday it is challenging the patents on Abbott Laboratories' cholesterol drug TriCor, and that Abbott is suing Impax for patent infringement.
Chemical maker DuPont Co. said Wednesday it has reached a settlement agreement regarding crop protection blend patents.
The U.S. Patent Office has awarded its 600,000th design patent — and it went to a Utah company.
The U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit says Microsoft Corp. can keep selling its Word desktop software as it appeals an unfavorable patent ruling.
The U.S. International Trade Commission issued a preliminary ruling saying that patents held by Tessera Technologies Inc. are valid but were not infringed, Tessera said Friday.
Microsoft Corp. is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to allow it to keep selling Word software as it fights an unfavorable patent ruling.
Generic drug developer Par Pharmaceutical Companies Inc. said Monday a federal court in Delaware ruled in the company's favor in a patent dispute over the pain drug Ultram ER.
The patent for Merck & Co.'s blockbuster allergy and asthma drug is valid, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, handing the drugmaker a crucial victory in its 2 1/2-year legal battle to block a rival from selling a cheaper generic version.
A federal judge in Texas has ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling some versions of its Word software in the U.S. within two months.
A federal judge has turned away a first-of-its-kind lawsuit filed by an attorney seeking to exploit a quirk in federal patent law that had been dormant for more than a century.
Look carefully at the lid to your coffee cup or the handle of your disposable razor. A recent ruling on an obscure, century-old statute has opened the door for people familiar with the finer points of patent law to sue companies that stamp their products with expired patent numbers.
A federal judge has dismissed an intellectual property lawsuit filed by the University of Missouri system against a chemical engineering professor who filed patents on his inventions.
Lawyers who work on patents in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries are sweating bullets today. It is not a bad thing when patent lawyers are feeling queasy.
Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, on Monday said it settled a patent dispute over car navigation technology with TomTom NV for an undisclosed amount.
Discovery Communications Inc. says the Kindle electronic book readers from Amazon.com Inc. violate a patent that Discovery registered in 2007. Discovery sued Amazon in Delaware on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court has refused to get in the middle of a patent fight over a way to cure tobacco that may make it less carcinogenic.
Mere months ago, the University of Missouri routinely touted chemical engineering professor Galen Suppes for his innovative research into renewable energy.
The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office on Tuesday issued a notice allowing drugmaker Pfizer Inc. to correct a technical defect in one of the patents involving Pfizer's cholesterol medicine Lipitor, the world's top-selling drug.
Eastman Kodak Co. said it is suing South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. for infringing various digital-camera patents it obtained between 1993 and 2001.
The Supreme Court refused Monday to disturb a $74 million judgment against Dish Network Corp. for violating a patent held by TiVo Inc. involving digital video recorders.
Telecommunications chip maker Broadcom Corp. said Friday that it had won an initial ruling against rival SiRF Technology Holdings for violating six patents covering technology designed for global positioning systems.
A federal appellate court in Philadelphia on Monday overturned a jury's finding that Thomson Reuters Corp. infringed a patent for trading municipal bonds in Internet auctions.
The Supreme Court on Monday limited the ability of companies to collect multiple royalties on their patents, the latest step by the justices to scale back the power of patent-holders.
Nintendo of America Inc. was ordered to pay a small East Texas gaming company $21 million Wednesday for infringing on a patent while designing controllers for its popular Wii and GameCube systems.
A small Pennsylvania company's patent lawsuits could hamstring the government's $1.5 billion effort to make the transition to digital television easier on consumers' wallets.
Suing For Patent Infringement No Replacement For Actually Building A Real BusinessTiVo has been spending a lot of effort suing others for patent infringement, but apparently not very much on actually improving their own services and giving customers a reason to buy them over the competition.
There is good news for patent owners, in particular those holding patents on green technologies. There will not be a binding agreement as a result of the UN conference in Copenhagen can allow patent and intellectual property advocates breathe a sigh of relief, at least for now.
Supreme Court Considers Patenting Abstract IdeasIn the case, Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw attempted to patent a business method that consisted of a hedging process to help companies have more predictable energy costs.
Big Content: Using "moral panics" to change copyright lawOne of the top copyright lawyers in the US takes Big Content to the woodshed in his new book, saying that "the Copyright Wars are a fight against our own children and it is a fight that says everything about the adults and very little about the children."
Judge OKs Challenge to Patents on Human GenesA federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer. More Articles
Mobile Phone Software Company Not Pleased With Courgette, Sues GoogleRed Bend, a VC-backed mobile phone software developer, is taking Google to court over alleged infringement of a patent it holds.
Yahoo Obtains U.S. Patent For Human-Aided Search Ranking MethodRemember when Yahoo was nothing more than a directory of the best links on the Web as determined by human editors? The Web is too vast for any humans to keep track of, but what if you could combine the heavy lifting of computers with the smarts and expert knowledge of humans? Wel …
Microsoft Interesting Multitouch Keyboard - Microsoft Multitouch KeyboardIt seems that Microsoft has filed a patent for a very interesting touchscreen keyboard design. One of the common problems of touchscreen keyboards is that users can't really "feel" where the keyboard is, so they resort to having to look at the screen.
No More Microsoft Word?Microsoft appears to be taking with deadly seriousness the threat that Microsoft Word could be forced off the market in October, following a judgment against it on patent infringement issues over its use of XML.
Apple wins patents for iChat, iPod classic, iPod nanoApple has been granted six new patents, including an iChat filing and several submissions involving product design.
Judge bans Microsoft from selling WordI'll be the first to admit that the tech discussion is beyond me here. I can see that the headline is sensationalized - wow! Any techies out there know the reality of whats happening with MS Word because of this case?
Texas Judge rules Microsoft can't sell Word anymoreGo ahead and clean up the coffee you just spit all over your keyboard. We'll wait. Back? OK. A judge in Texas ruled that Microsoft Word's XML systems violate patents by Toronoto-based i4i Inc. Word uses XML in reading and writing XML, DOCX, and DOCM files.
Judge issues injunction against sales of WordA federal judge has ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word in the United States, ruling that the program uses technology that infringes on a patent held by a Canadian company.
Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling WordA judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, one of its premier products, in its current form due to patent infringement.
Injunction on Microsoft Word unlikely to halt salesA judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Microsoft Word products in their current form in the U.S., but legal appeals or technical work-arounds make an actual halt of sales unlikely.
U.S. Patent Office Rejects Some Of TiVo's 'Time Warp' ClaimsAgency In Preliminary Finding Acted On Request From Dish Network, EchoStar
Apple, Microsoft, Others Sued For Patent Infringement Over iPod, Zune TouchpadsAnd... here we go again. A company named Tsera LLC, a Texas company that has no products or online presence, and which certainly appears to be a typical patent hoarding shell company has now sued a bunch of companies in East Texas (of course) for patent infringement.
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Microsoft hit with $200 million patent verdictA federal jury in Tyler, Texas, on Wednesday ordered Microsoft to pay $200 million in a patent infringement case. The jury ruled that the custom XML tagging features of Word 2003 and Word 2007 infringed on a patent from Toronto-based i4i.
Microsoft receives patent for restricting Windows functionalityMicrosoft has been granted US Patent No. 7,536,726 (hat tip to Slashdot), which it filed for in 2005. The patent describes a system that can cripple certain features and functionalities of an operating system until a user pays to have them unlocked.
Google patent on floating data centersThis may be old news to others, but I only learned about it just now, and I have to assume there are still people who haven't heard it yet, so:
How To: Patenting Human GenesHere's a little-known fact: Under current law, it's possible to hold a patent on a piece of human DNA, otherwise known as a gene. More Articles
ACLU sues over patents on breast cancer genes"Knowledge about our own bodies and the ability to make decisions about our health care are some of our most personal and fundamental rights," said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero.
Cancer Patients Challenge the Patenting of a Gene - NYTimes.comPatenting genes is a bad idea--limits access to medical information, blocks development of alternatives to the patented tests, and even the practice of interpreting or comparing gene sequences involved in those tests. Bad news for patients.
Apple found guilty of willful patent infringementApple has been found guilty of willfully infringing on a "predictive snooping" patent awarded to Opti Inc. in 2002. The company has been ordered to pay just over $19 million in compensation, despite its attempts to have the patent thrown out.
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