In a significant development, a group of 50 investors managing with more than $4.5 trillion in assets in total, have called on companies which are involved in the development and use of facial recognition technology, to do so in an ethical manner. The investor group, led by asset manager Candriam said, given the lack of…
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…
Japan’s Sharp Corp has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against U.S. TV brand Vizio Inc and two others in an attempt to seek an injunction to ban one of Vizio’s TV products in the United States. In a statement, Sharp, a unit of Taiwan’s Foxconn, said Vizio’s 70-inch TV product uses liquid crystal display (LCD)…
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…
The lawsuit is in the same line as those it filed against Facebook and Snap last year. BlackBerry Ltd has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Twitter alleging that it illegally used technology that it developed on its mobile messaging applications. The lawsuit states, Twitter wrongly sought to compensate for being a “relative latecomer” to…
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