Tag archive: Western District

Japanese electronics giant Toshiba has filed suit against Imation, Advanced Media, Glyphics Media, Hotan Corporation, and a range of other makers of recordable DVD media, alleging the companies do not have licenses to Toshiba patents necessary to meet the DVD specifications. According to Toshiba, the manufacturers have not executed licenses to patents essential to meeting the DVD format specifications either from the DVD6C Licensing Group… Read More

Less than a year after finally ending its legal tussle with Immersion over rumble technology patents in controllers, Sony has once again found itself in hot water over controller patents, and this time Nintendo is right alongside on the hot seat. According to Ars Technica, Copper Innovation Group has slapped both companies with a lawsuit claiming they infringed on a patent it holds for a “Hand held computer input apparatus and… Read More

In a massive legal move, storage and portable media player developer SanDisk has filed three patent infringement lawsuits alleging some 25 companies that manufacture, import, or sell everything from USB flash drives to multimedia cards to portable media players infringe on SanDisk patents. The suits were filed in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin and with the U.S. International Trade Commission; the suits allege… Read More

South Korea's LG Electronics has filed suit against Taiwan's Quanta, alleging Quanta infringes on four patents related to LG's DVD technology. Quanta is seeking monetary compensation as well as an an injunction preventing Quanta from selling infringing products in the United States. “LG's proprietorship of DVD technologies is widely recognized throughout industry and the unlicensed use of our intellectual… Read More

Software giant Microsoft has been targeted by a lawsuit accusing the company of letting PC makers label computers as "Vista capable" when they're only able to run the most basic version of the operating system. The suit, brought by Dianne Kelley through the Seattle law firm Gordon Murray Tilden, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, alleges a Microsoft engaged in "bait and… Read More

Judge Samuel Sparks of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has ruled against (PDF) electronics giant Canon in a patent dispute with Nano-Proprietary over technology planned for use in SED flat-screen televisions. Canon originally licensed Nano-Proprietary's technology with an eye towards manufacturing surface-conduction electron emitter displays (SED) for televisions; SED panels have the potential to offer… Read More

Judge Sam Sparks of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has dismissed a lawsuit brought against popular social networking Web site MySpace. The suit was brought by the family of a teenage girl who was sexually assaulted by a 19 year-old man she met via the Web site; the suit charged MySpace with fraud, negligence, and negligent misrepresentation. In granting MySpace's motion to dismiss the suit, Judge Sparks… Read More

From InterVideo's press release: InterVideo, Inc. announced today that its subsidiary, InterVideo Digital Technology Corporation, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States Western District of Texas against Acer, Inc. and Acer America Corp. for infringement of U.S. Patent No 6765788 (the “'788 Patent”), entitled “Method and apparatus for integrating personal computer and electronic device… Read More

From the RealNetworks press release: RealNetworks, Inc. announced today that it has filed suit against Major League Baseball Advanced Media L.P. (MLBAM) in federal court in order to enforce a new contract entered into between the parties in February 2004 that requires MLBAM to make its Internet broadcasts of live baseball games on MLB.com available in RealNetworks media format. RealNetworks is also seeking a temporary restraining… Read More

Microsoft sued Lindows.com in December 2001, accusing the company of infringing its “Windows” trademark and asking the court to bar Lindows.com from further using the Lindows name. Schedule Shuffle The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle originally set a trial date in April, but moved that to December to give Lindows.com more time to prepare for the case. The trial has now been pushed… 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