Tag archive: patent infringement claims

Microsoft is going after Barnes & Noble for allegedly using its software without permission. According to the company, Barnes & Noble Android e-readers the Nook and Nook Color infringe on patents regarding UI, as well as browsing and downloading. Microsoft also claims that Foxconn and Inventec are guilty of violating its various patents. According to Microsoft’s corporate VP and deputy general counsel Horacio Gutierrez, “the Android… Read More

Location service vendor Skyhook filed two lawsuits against Google, claiming the search giant infringed patents and interfered with contracts it signed with Motorola and another company. Skyhook said the search giant’s Google Location Service violated four of its location technologies patents. Skyhook's XPS technology maps the location of 250 million Wi-Fi access points. Skyhook claims that Google licensed the technology in 2005 – and… Read More

It has been a tough month for Apple.  Once the David, fighting off the corporate goliaths, Apple has itself become a goliath, and it has the lawsuits and anti trust inquiries to prove it. Today Nokia joins the growing list of companies that have an axe to grind with Apple, by filing a patent infringement lawsuit against the Cupertino company over technology in the iPhone and the iPad. According to Bloomberg, the patents relate to enhanced… Read More

Over the years relations between software giant Microsoft and the open source Linux operating system have been testy (to say the least), with most of the tension in the last couple years coming at Microsoft's insistence that elements of the Linux operating system violate Microsoft patents. The Linux community has repeatedly challenged Microsoft to identify any specific instance where Linux infringes on its patents and Microsoft has… Read More

Back in 2003, eletronics giants Canon and Toshiba went in on a joint venture to create SED Inc. to develope technology for SED flat panel televisions. SED TVs bear some slight similarities to CRT TVs, except that they have one electron emitter per pixel, rather than one big gun for the entire television screen. In October 2006, the companies announced plans to begin manfacturing SED televisions…and were slammed by a lawsuit earlier… Read More

Fresh off a dismissal of some patent infringement claims which left both Garmin and rival TomTom declaring victory, Garmin has announced a major refresh of its GPS product line…including a new product designed to let Fido in on the GPS action. First up: the Garmin Astro, consisting of a transmitter harnessed to your favorite pooch and a handheld receiver which stays with the owner. Designed to help out with the location of hunting… Read More

Hewlett-Packard Co. filed a patent infringement lawsuit Thursday against Gateway Inc., alleging its rival refused to pay licensing fees on six HP patented designs. Alleged culprits included laptop hinges, keyboards that require passwords–even the cursor that points to icons on a computer's video display. According to HP attorneys who filed in San Diego federal court, Poway-based Gateway paid licensing fees from 1994 to 1999 to… Read More

In May 2003, Cirrus Logic brought suit against NVIDIA and ATI Technologies Inc. in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, for infringement of a Cirrus patent relating to graphics processor technology. In July 2003, NVIDIA counterclaimed against Cirrus, alleging infringement of patents owned by NVIDIA relating to audio-controller technology. Under the settlement agreement, all outstanding claims… Read More