Michael Jordan’s infringement lawsuit tarnished the reputation of defendant, so new suit says
Qiaodan Sports Company Limited designs, manufactures and sells sportswear and sports accessories. Micheal Jordan sued Qiaodan early in 2012 for using his Chinese name and jersey number (23) without permission. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post
Canadian colleges exerting independence in monitoring their own copyright compliance
Access Copyright is a collective which manages a pool of protected intellectual works, charging fees to Canadian colleges and universities and paying royalties to copyright holders. Access Copyright and the Association of Universities and Colleges Canada reached an agreement in April 2012 that requires institutions to pay a per-student fee $26 a year, a substantial [...]
Details of the lawsuit-settling Dupont and Monsanto cross-license agreement released
On March 26, DuPont and Monsanto announced financial terms of the technology cross-licensing agreements that also settled their patent and antitrust lawsuits relating to Monsanto’s Round-Up® resistant soybean seeds. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post
Apple is sued again for patent infringement
In a case that might have some legs, Intertrust Technologies Corp., owned jointly by Sony Corp. and Royal Philips Electronics, has sued Apple for infringing on Marlin, the digital content protection software already licensed to Samsung, Nokia Corp., Fujitsu Ltd. and HTC Corp. In 2004 Microsoft agreed to pay Intertrust over $400M to settle a [...]
Judge reduces damages in Apple v. Samsung, setting the floor at $598M, and offers some guidance to expert witnesses
On March 1, US District Court Judge Lucy Koh ruled that Samsung Electronics should pay Apple adjusted damages of $598 million, down from the jury’s award of just over $1 billion. (A jury found that 14 Samsung products had violated Apple patents.) The restating of the damages was due to two factors: 1) the jury [...]
USPTO Releases New Patent Term Calculator
Valuation analysts and IP managers solving for the expiration date of a patent have been given some help by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, USPTO, which announced the development and release to the public of a new calculator that estimates the expiration date of a utility, plant or design patent. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg [...]
Jury awards Carnegie Mellon University $1.17B in damages
Carnegie Mellon sued Marvell Technology Group, Ltd., a Bermuda-based, Santa Clara-headquartered (see here for why) chip manufacturing company in 2009 in the federal court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, alleging the company had infringed patents covering technology associated with “increasing the accuracy with which hard disk drive circuits read data from high-speed magnetic disks,” [...]
For a small shop, protecting IP value can present a daunting set of financial realities
Last week a Seattle news organization reported on graphic designers/illustrators who allegedly caught Disney with their hands in the unauthorized-use-of-copyrighted-materials cookie jar, only to face what IP Value Wire calls “willingness and wherewithal” to protect IP really means. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on [...]
Samsung gets to see the details of the HTC/Apple licensing pact
Earlier this month, Apple and HTC inked a 10-year patent licensing agreement that settled all of their lawsuits worldwide. The financial details of the deal were kept secret, but Samsung believes they might be relevant to their dispute with Apple in that in lieu of a permanent injunction barring sales of infringing Samsung products in [...]
IP value is finally a boardroom discussion
IP value is finally finding its way onto boardroom agenda items, though perhaps not as much through discussion of opportunities as through mitigation of risk. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post
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