Matsushita Sues Over PDP Patent
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Matsushita is asking a Tokyo court to halt sales in Japan of plasma display panels made by a South Korean company that the Japanese electronics giant says violate its patents, the company said Tuesday.
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Honeywell has issued lawsuits against 34 companies, including Dell, Apple, Sony and Toshiba alleging LCD panels used in their products infringe a 1992 patent the company holds.
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Network Appliance Inc. has filed suit against Sun Microsystems alleging that the latter's ZFS file system infringes on seven NetApp patents.
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LA electronics company sues Nintendo, claiming that it holds patent to remote-control tech used in Wii controller.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Jan. 31--OSAKA -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Matsushita  Electric Works Ltd. said Wednesday they will recall some 68,000 massage chairs  the latter has made, as there is a risk they may catch fire.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), of Hsinchu, Taiwan, has expanded its patent-infringement fight against rival contract chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.
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The Motion Picture Association (MPA) -- the international representative of the movie industry -- has filed a civil suit against Shenzhen Xunlei Networking Technology, which operates a a peer-to-peer file sharing service based in China called Xunlei that's part-owned by Google.
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LG ElectronicsÂ has filed a lawsuit against the world's largest contract manufacturer of laptop PCs over the infringement of four patents related to DVD (digital video disc) technology, the company said Wednesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Aerospace manufacturer Honeywell International Inc. has filed suit against 34 PC and mobile phone companies that it says are infringing on its patents for LCD (liquid crystal display) technology.ADVERTISEMENTSBC Case Study: Crate & BarrelWhat sold them on improving their network? A system that could cut management costs from the get-go. Find out more.
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InfoWorld - A U.S. security expert is suing the Japanese government for &#165;30 million (&#36;291,000) for allegedly censoring his criticisms of Japan's online citizens registry database, called Juki Net. In a lawsuit filed against Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Ejovi Nuwere, CTO of SecurityLab Technologies, in Boston, alleged that the ministry stopped him from making a presentation in which he planned to discuss his concerns about the security of the database. Juki Net has been surrounded by controversy, particularly over security concerns, since before its launch in 2003. Nuwere was one of three experts hired by the government to test the security of the system. The experts successfully managed to compromise servers in part of the system. Nuwere had intended to describe these experiences in his talk.
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Procter & Gamble Co  said on Monday it sued Kraft Foods Inc.  because it claims a new plastic container for Kraft's Maxwell House coffee infringes a patent for P&G's Folgers coffee.
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Lenovo Group, the world's third- largest personal computer maker, sued rival Clevo Computer, claiming the Taiwanese company infringed on two patents for PC functions and owed millions of dollars in licensing royalties.  The lawsuit was filed March 2 in federal court in New York.
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Patent infringement decision leads to one of the largest patent decisions in history.
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I2 Technologies accused SAP of patent infringement in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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Japan's Pioneer Corp. 6773.T said on   Monday it filed a complaint against Samsung SDI Co. 006400.KS   and several other Samsung companies in the United States over   infringement of patents on plasma display panel technology.
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Japan&#39;s Toshiba Corp., claiming patent infringement in flash-memory chips on the part of Korean semiconductor manufacturer Hynix, filed a lawsuit with Tokyo District Court on Monday.
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Eastman Kodak Co  and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd (MEI)  agreed to settle their patent infringement claims, Kodak said in a regulatory filing on Friday.