A U.S. jury has awarded Optis Wireless Technology LLC and several related companies $300 million in damages in a second patent trial against Apple Inc. Previously, the jury had found that Apple had infringed on five Optis wireless standard essential patents and had awarded $506 million in damages; however the U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap…
U.S. networking giant Cisco Systems Inc has been ordered, by a U.S. judge, to pay $1.9 billion to a Virginia-based company which had accused it of infringing on its cybersecurity patents. After a month of a non-jury trial, U.S. District Judge Henry Morgan in Norfolk, Virginia, found Cisco of infringing on four Centripetal Networks Inc’s…
In a blow to Apple Inc, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Cupertino cannot avoid paying $440 million in damages for using VirnetX Inc’s patented internet security technology without permission. Apple uses VirnetX Inc’s technologies in its FaceTime video calling features. Supreme court justices rejected Apple’s appeal in the long-running case concurring with a…
Senator Marco Rubio files legislation which prevents certain companies from seeking damages in U.S. patent courts. In a significant development, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio has filed legislation aimed at preventing Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from seeking damages in U.S. patent courts. The move comes after the Chinese company demanded that Verizon Communications Inc pay $1…
Apple is likely to go on appeal. The federal jury found Apple guilty of patent infringement. As per a court filing by WiLan, a unit of Quarterhill Inc, a federal jury in California has awarded WiLan Inc, a Canadian patent licensing company, $145.1 million in damages against Apple Inc, for patent infringement. The jury in…
In its lawsuit Wixen Music Publishing has alleged that Spotify has made available thousands of songs to its users without getting a direct or a compulsory license from it which allows it to either distribute or reproduce the songs. Wixen Music Publishing Inc has sued Spotify, a music streaming company for allegedly using thousands of…
Not only digital currencies are alike. Here is an interesting legal case involving Sweden’s Tezos cryptocurrency project where investors were left with a bad after taste. According to sources familiar with the matter at hand, Arthur and Kathleen Breitman, the couple behind the embattled cryptocurrency Tezos wants the Tezos Foundation, a Swiss-based firm, to cover…
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