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EMG Sues Google Over Touch Screen Navigation Patent Updated: by

Yesterday, Santa Monica company EMG Technology, LLC filed a lawsuit against Google Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging a patent violation. According to the complaint, Google's Chrome Mobile browser infringes on United States Patent No. 7,441,196, entitled "Apparatus and Method of Manipulating a…

Appeals Court Stays One of Two Preliminary Injunctions Against Samsung in Patent Case By Apple Updated: by

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued a temporary immediate stay on the preliminary injunction a federal judge issued on Tuesday against Samsung for the Galaxy Nexus. In a separate order, the court denied a motion for an immediate stay on the preliminary injunction for the…

Apple Seeks to Withdraw Kodak Patent Dispute From Bankruptcy Court Updated: by

Lane V. Erickson/Shutterstock.comIn Eastman Kodak Company v. Apple Inc. et al, filed in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York, Apple has asked the court to withdraw the adversarial proceeding that Kodak initiated in bankruptcy court. Apple argues in its brief that Kodak’s bankruptcy proceeding would…

InNova Patent Licensing, LLC Sues Facebook Over Email Patent Updated: by

InNova Patent Licensing, LLC has filed a lawsuit against Facebook in the Eastern District of Texas for patent infringement. According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the patent (6,018,761) is a “system for adding to electronic mail messages information obtained from sources external to the electronic mail transport process.”…

Google, AOL Face Patent Suit Over ‘Snippet’ Search Results, Ads Updated: by

Google and AOL were sued for patent infringement Thursday by New Jersey-based Suffolk Technologies, LLC over their Internet search summary descriptions, or 'snippets.' Suffolk's lawsuit also alleges that AOL and Google are infringing a second patent for an "Internet server and method of controlling an internet server". The second claim…

TiVo patent lawsuit accuses Cisco of Rocky Horror-like infringement Updated: by

Days after Cisco sued TiVo in Silicon Valley federal court for a declaratory judgment over four patents, the maker of "God's Machine" fired back with its own lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas, accusing Cisco of infringing the very same TiVo patents in dispute. One of the patents being…

No, Your BlackBerry is Not a Nuclear Weapon Updated: by

Judges often juggle hefty caseloads, particularly in intellectual property litigation. Knowing this, lawyers serve their clients well by making concise, memorable, and effective arguments. Take Cal Tech's attorneys, for example. On Friday, they told the U.S. International Trade Commission ('ITC') that "RIM's mobile phones and tablets are not essential to…

MEMS patent suit over gryoscopes, accelerometers, other tech toys Updated: by

STMicroelectronics, a Swiss maker of Micro-Electric-Mechanical Systems ('MEMS') for accelerometers and gyroscopes in consumer products like iPads and iPhones filed a patent infringement lawsuit today against competitor InvenSense, Inc. ST's lawsuit alleges that Sunnyvale, California-based InvenSense is infringing nine (9) of the company's patents being used in consumer electronic devices…

Apple, iOS app makers faces patent lawsuit over window display rotation Updated: by

A new patent infringement lawsuit accuses Apple, Electronic Arts, Target, Whole Foods, and other companies of violating a U.S. patent "for selectively rotating windows on a computer display." The lawsuit by Rotatable Technologies, LLC, a non-practicing entity (NPE), alleges that Apple iPhones and iPads violate U.S. Patent No. 6,326,978 for…

Judge Posner Points His Finger at Apple’s Patent Litigators Updated: by

Enough already! That's the message from Judge Richard Posner, the federal judge presiding over one of many patent feuds between Apple and Motorola Mobility. Dagnabbit, Apple, Judge Posner is fed up with your legal team's motion practice! "I've had my fill of frivolous filings by Apple," he wrote in a…