On Wednesday, in a statement Sharp Corp said, German automaker Daimler has signed a licensing agreement with it following a settlement in a patent infringement lawsuit concerning in-vehicle mobile communications technology. In a court ruling last month, Sharp won the patent dispute with a German court allowing Sharp to enforce a sales ban against Daimler…
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…
The United States has continued to keep Alibaba’s taobao.com, China’s biggest e-commerce platform on this blacklist. Continuing its crackdown on Chinese companies which exploit and steal U.S. intellectual property, the United States added Pinduoduo.com, China’s third-largest e-commerce platform to its list of “notorious markets” for violations of intellectual property rights. The United States also kept…
Huawei faces gale force headwinds with intelligence agencies linking its telecom devices as potential Trojan Horses which can be tapped by Chinese intelligence. According to information available in court filings, two units of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd are set to be arraigned on February 28 in Seattle on a 10-count indictment on charges of conspiring…
The statement sees China continue to maintain its refrain that it does not allow forced technology transfers in its domestic and foreign companies and that it will adopt stricter measures to the IPR regime. Will China now walk the talk? On Tuesday, in a statement that is clearly aimed at deflecting U.S. trade accusations on…
Given the impetus and the focus that China has laid on ZTE in the ongoing U.S.-China trade negotiations, is probably indicative of the role played by the Chinese firm in its strategic China 2025 policy. China will also need to come of age in the semiconductor industry if it wants to be at par with…
To the chagrin of patent trolls and big pharma, in a ruling with widespread implications for high technology companies, including Apple and Samsung, U.S. Supreme Court justices in a 7-2 ruling upheld the IPR system. In a development with significant implications for tech companies, on Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court approved of a government review…
Tech companies who were seen doing the victory round will have to better study the judgement to see its legal implications. Although many companies are buoyed by a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court which set a limit on where they can be sued for patent infringement, a few intellectual property lawyers opine that due…
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