Court Rules RIM Infringed on NTP Patent
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TORONTO - A US appeals court ruled Tuesday that Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device, infringed on another company&#39;s patent - but sent the case back to a lower court for some of the claims to be reconsidered.
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A claim originally filed against Palm and Handspring claimed the now-joined companies violated a patent for portable computing devices. Not so, says the judge.
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Research In Motion and Samsung have resolved a lawsuit in which RIM claimed Samsung misled users about e-mail capabilities in its BlackJack smart phone.
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Research in Motion lost part of the case on appeal, but it&#39;s not over until it&#39;s over. Specifically, the patent infringement finding against the maker of the email device was upheld by the appeals court.
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Refilling, reselling cartridges doesn't violate patents - Tokyo court
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WASHINGTON - A US federal appeals court has upheld a lower court&#39;s patent infringement finding against Research in Motion (RIM).
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(InfoWorld) - A day after winning a patent infringement lawsuit against a Taiwanese memory chip maker Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. has filed to have the chips in question barred from Japan. TheÂ Tokyo District Court Thursday upheld Fujitsu claims that DRAM (dynamic RAM) memory chips made by Nanya Technology Corp. infringed upon patents held by Fujitsu. The court granted an injunction against future import and sales of the chips. Fujitsu said Friday it had filed an application with Japan's customs authority to suspend import of the DRAM chips under the country's customs law. The lawsuit concerned a patent related to a technology for improving the speed of DDR SDRAM (double data rate synchronous dynamic RAM) memory chips and was filed just over two years ago after talks between the two companies produced no agreement on patent licensing. "We've been in IP discussions [with Fujitsu] for a while. It's regretful that we have not reached an agreement yet," said Pai Pei-lin, vice president of sales at Nanya Technology Corp. The case with Fujitsu probably won't have much impact on Nanya in the near term, he said, because it's been going on for a while and the company has already made contingency plans. Nanya will most likely appeal the decision, but company lawyers will have to take a close look at the ruling before making such a decision, he said. Nanya is fighting a similar case with Fujitsu in the U.S., but the proceedings there look more favorable for Nanya than the Japan ruling, he added. Â
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Texas fisticuffs RIM and Motorola are suing each other for patent infringement, with both companies refusing to pay the other for using their patented technologies. RIM is also complaining that Motorola is demanding "exorbitant" fees with the intention of damaging its business.â¦
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After winning a $612.5 million settlement from RIM last year, NTP is back with patent claims against the largest U.S. wireless carriers over patents for wireless e-mail.
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Qualcomm Inc.  said on Tuesday that a U.S. federal jury had found it infringed three patents held by Broadcom Corp. in the latest of their ongoing legal disputes.
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The hit on Qualcomm from a patent suit it lost to rival Broadcom may be slashed because of an unrelated ruling that came down in August.In May, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California found that&#160;Qualcomm infringed three Broadcom patents&#160;and awarded Broadcom $19.6 million. The judge in that case, James Selna, said he would double the damages to more than $39 million because the jury found the infringement was wilful. The damage award isn&#39;t final because other issues in the case are still pending.On Monday, Selna tentatively overturned the double award because of a new standard for proving wilful infringement, said Broadcom attorney David Rosmann. Broadcom can either accept the $19.6 million in direct damages or pursue a new trial in which it would try to prove Qualcomm acted deliberately, he said. Judge Selna ruled any new trial would look at the whole case over again, he said.Broadcom hasn&#39;t decided which path to take, but its priority in the case is getting an injunction to stop Qualcomm from making, using or selling the chips, Rosmann said.&quot;The issue of the injunction is far more important to Broadcom than the damages,&quot; Rosmann said. &quot;We&#39;re hoping to move forward on the injunction as quickly as possible.&quot;In August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upped the ante for patent owners that want to earn higher damages -- they can be as much as tripled -- by proving someone knew they were infringing a patent and did so anyway, according to patent attorney Smith Brittingham of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett &amp; Dunner.&quot;You have to show more comprehension of the situation than you would have had to in the past,&quot; Brittingham said. The Federal Circuit ruling, on a suit against hard-drive vendor Seagate Technology, automatically changed the standard in all federal courts, he said. The ruling could change other pending cases, he said.The new standard probably won&#39;t discourage patent suits among competitors like the Broadcom-Qualcomm dispute, but it may make litigation less attractive for patent-holding companies in the business of suing, Brittingham said.&quot;It&#39;s consistent with the view that ... maybe patent infringement cases have gotten too easy to win and have created an unnecessary drag on business,&quot; he said.Judge Selna asked Broadcom for a decision by the end of this week, Rosmann said. Qualcomm declined to comment on the substance of the case.The suit is one of several between Qualcomm and Broadcom, who are battling over the market for mobile-phone chips.
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(InfoWorld) - Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) has sued Samsung Telecommunications America LLP, claiming that Samsung's BlackJack smart phone violates the BlackBerry trademark. RIM is asking that Samsung be stopped from selling the BlackJack and Black Carbon mobile phones and is seeking unspecified damages, according to court filings. The lawsuit was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. "Samsung is misleading the public into falsely believing that Samsung's goods and services are connected with RIM's business," the filing states. The US$450 BlackJack phone was introduced last month to the U.S. market, where it is sold exclusively by Cingular Wireless LLC. Black Carbon is an ultra-thin phone sold directly by Samsung. A Samsung spokesman declined to comment on the matter. "Samsung is not going to comment on pending litigation," he said.
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NTP Inc, which won a $612.5 million settlement from the maker of BlackBerry last year, has sued four of the top U.S. mobile service providers for infringing eight patents related to wireless e-mail.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the LG Electronics and Quanta lawsuit will have an impact on patent holders' rights.
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The US Court of Appeals has ruled that Lawsuits in Motion - aka Research in Motion - did indeed violate patents owned by intellectual property holding company NTP.
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Research In Motion Ltd.    has settled a lawsuit with Samsung Electronics Co.  Ltd.  over allegations the South Korean electronics  giant infringed on RIM's well-known BlackBerry trademark name  with its competing BlackJack smartphone.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission said that QualcommÂ is infringing on one of Broadcom's patents, dealing a blow to Qualcomm in anÂ ongoing patent battleÂ between the companies.