Internet technology provider Eolas Technologies Inc. is announcing a Texas federal lawsuit filed today to assert the company’s intellectual property rights based on two groundbreaking patents, including one that has passed two separate reexaminations at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and resulted in a $565 million federal court judgment in 2004.
Eolas Technologies [...]

MPEG LA, LLC, world leader in alternative one-stop patent licenses, today announced that several patent holders in MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License have filed separate patent enforcement actions in District Court Dusseldorf, Germany against Medion AG (“Medion”) for infringing patents essential to the MPEG-2 digital video compression standard used worldwide in digital television broadcasting [...]

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A study by the world’s leading patent analyst, The Patent [...]

O2Micro® International Limited (NASDAQ®: OIIM) (SEHK: 0457), a leading supplier of innovative power management and security components, today announced that it has entered into a worldwide technology license agreement relating to O2Micro’s patented inverter controller technology with Sanken Electric Co., Ltd. (“Sanken”).
Under the licensing agreement, O2Micro will license certain of its inverter controller patents [...]

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) , a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, today stated that it is disappointed with the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) final determination that Qualcomm’s accused chip packages infringe two patents asserted by Tessera (patents ‘326 and ‘419), which it also found valid. The ITC also [...]

Lawsuit Alleges Oracle Infringes 11 i2 Patents
i2 Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITWO) announced today that it has filed a suit for patent infringement against Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL). The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleges infringement of 11 patents related to supply chain management, available to [...]

$70 Million Cash Settlement
Spansion Inc. (NASDAQ: SPSN) , the world’s largest pure-play provider of Flash memory solutions, today announced that it has settled its patent litigation lawsuits with Samsung Electronics. As part of the settlement, Samsung will pay Spansion $70 million and Spansion and Samsung Electronics Company have exchanged rights in their patent portfolios in [...]

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. – December 15, 2008 – Mobius Photonics, Inc. has been
awarded U.S. Patent #7,443,903, “Laser Apparatus Having Multiple
Synchronous Amplifiers Tied to One Master Oscillator”.
The architecture described offers a unique way to scale up average power
for integration into high throughput machine tools without sacrificing
reliability. Conventional diode-pumped, solid-state lasers are incapable
of the flexibility and [...]

Pioneer Corporation announced today that a jury in the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Texas has reached a verdict in favor of Pioneer Corporation in a patent infringement suit against Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. and two affiliated companies (“Samsung”). The jury awarded damages totaling US$59.3 million to Pioneer. Pioneer commenced this [...]

iRise®, the world’s leading visualization solutions company, today announced it has been awarded a second U.S. patent by the U.S. Patent Trademark Office (PTO), no. US 7,349,837 B2. The iRise patent covers the “systems and methods for a programming environment for a simulation of a computer application.” This patent primarily concerns editing and association of [...]