Tag archive: injunction

A jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia awarded ActiveVideo Networks a $115 million payout after it was determined that Verizon infringed on four patents owned by the company. As of Friday, ActiveVideo announced intentions of seeking an injunction against Verizon to shut down the entire FiOS network. FiOS makes up nearly $2 billion of Verizon's total consumer revenue due to the 3.8 million FiOS TV users and… Read More

The injunction against Microsoft selling Word after October 10 is having some large ripples. It doesn’t affect just Microsoft, but also the computer makers who ship software with their machines, and two of them have weighed in on Microsoft’s side. According to the Groklaw legal news site, both Dell and HP are asking for an extension before the injunction takes effect, and Dell has already filed a brief, asking for an extension… Read More

A federal judge has stayed a permanent injunction against Buffalo Technology, clearing the way for the company to sell 802.11a, g, and n products in the United States. The injunction goes all the way back to 2007, when the Australian science agency CSIRO sued Buffalo, alleging that the company's products infringe on a patent covering aspects of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, a method of dividing Wi-Fi channels into… Read More

Only days after Apple announced that ex-IBM veteran Mark Papermaster would be taking over as chief of its iPod division, a New York court has barred him from taking the position. IBM succeeded on Friday in winning a preliminary injunction to temporarily prevent Papermaster him from working with Apple, due to a contract he signed in 2006. According to IBM, the non-compete contract Papermaster signed in 2006 prevents him from working for… Read More

U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton said on Friday that he will issue an injunction barring Vonage from using VoIP technology patented by Verizon Communications. However, Judge Hilton said he would delay signing the order by two weeks in order to give Vonage an opportunity to convince him the injunction should be stayed while the company appeals its entire case. The move comes after a federal jury found Vonage had infringed on three key… Read More

Macrovision received the preliminary injunction in its patent-infringement lawsuit against 321 Studios, already forbidden by federal judges in recent months from selling its DVD-cloning software. Less than two weeks ago, 321 founder Robert Moore told a congressional panel the court rulings have put his company “on the brink of annihilation.” He said 321 had expected to generate $100 million in sales. Read the full… Read More