VANOC sues in trademark dispute
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Pair allegedly used Olympic domain name to advertise Whistler home The controversy surrounding the use of trademarked Olympic-related words grew this week with a 74-year-old widow making headlines and a German ...
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November 10, 2004 ã¡ In the latest in a series of attempts by Japanese companies to defend their technological territory, electronics giant Toshiba sued Hynix Semiconductor yesterday for alleged violations of flash memory chip patents, which are key
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AT&T Inc  has filed a patent  infringement lawsuit against Vonage Holdings Corp ,  according to a Vonage regulatory filing on Friday, the latest  legal trouble for the Internet phone service provider.
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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. (SMIC) by filing a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
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The world&#39;s largest computer software manufacturer filed suit Tuesday in US District Court against a local software retailer it claims is selling and distributing counterfeit software labels.
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A company suing the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Association for patent infringement has asked for $20 million to settle claims that the nonprofit had copied its keyboard.
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Barracuda Networks plans to focus on finding prior art to defend itself and the open-source ClamAV project against patent claims by rival antivirus vendor Trend Micro, which stressed Tuesday that it owns a tested and valid patent.Barracuda, facing a Trend Micro complaint before the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), will work on showing the agency that other companies used gateway antivirus scanning before Trend Micro received its patent in 1997, Barracuda said Tuesday. Barracuda, based in California, uses ClamAV code in some of its products.&quot;In their claim, Trend Micro is seeking an interpretation of its ... patent such that would give it exclusive control of gateway antivirus scanning,&quot; said Kylie Heintz, spokeswoman for Barracuda.&quot;We believe that neither our products, nor the free and open-source ClamAV software, infringe the patent, and further we believe that the patent itself is invalid due to prior art,&quot; Heintz said.The USITC launched a formal investigation of the patent claims in December.Barracuda&#39;s announcement that it intended to find prior art spurred action in the open-source community. Early Tuesday, Groklaw, a blog focused on open-source legal issues, posted an announcement asking for help finding prior art.But Trend Micro, which filed the USITC complaint in November, has a &quot;known and time-tested patent,&quot; said Michael Sweeny, a spokesman for Trend Micro. The company won a similar dispute with rival Fortinet before the USITC in May 2005, Trend Micro noted. Fortinet later settled the patent claims, getting a license from Trend Micro.In addition,&#160;Trend Micro filed a similar complaint&#160;against Panda Software International and Panda Distribution, which use a proprietary software package, said Mark Davis, Trend Micro&#39;s outside counsel. Trend Micro has not targeted the ClamAV project, he said. &quot;This is purely against commercial competitors,&quot; Davis added.Commercial software vendor Sourcefire purchased the ClamAV project in August. Sourcefire declined to comment on the patent dispute.Open-source software is not the issue in the USITC complaint, Sweeny added. &quot;We can&#39;t see how this would negatively impact open-source development,&quot; he said.Barracuda CEO Dean Drako called scanning for viruses at the gateway &quot;an obvious and common technique&quot; used by most businesses. Almost anyone, including the owners of more than 1 million ClamAV installations, could be sued by Trend Micro if the company&#39;s patent claims hold up, he said in a statement.Barracuda, maker of hardware containing cybersecurity products, has won support in the dispute from the Software Freedom Law Center, a group working to protect open-source software. The law center is grateful to Barracuda for fighting the patent, said Eben Moglen, the center&#39;s founding director. &quot;Collective defense from software patents is a shared responsibility for everyone in the free software ecosystem,&quot; he said in a statement.Barracuda has a pending lawsuit seeking to invalidate the patent in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose division.Trend Micro is misusing the USITC because it&#39;s filing a trade complaint asking the agency to bar importation of a product against a company based in the U.S., Barracuda added. &quot;Barracuda Networks designs and manufactures all of the products in question in the United States,&quot; Drako said in his statement. &quot;We believe Trend Micro&#39;s actions are a blatant abuse of the U.S. legal system.&quot;But Trend Micro said the USITC is an appropriate venue for the patent complaint. The 2005 Fortinet ruling was also against a company based in the U.S., Davis said. &quot;There appear to be several components that are imported,&quot; he said.Trend Micro&#39;s USITC complaint says Barracuda uses code from ClamAV, which is written in part in Europe and Australia. Barracuda also imports hardware components, the complaint says.
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IP defences tested GraphOn, the Santa Cruz, CA software maker has filed a lawsuit against Juniper Networks, alleging infringement of three patents related to firewall technology.â¦
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Settlement is latest in a string of patent cases against Internet phone company. Vonage has settled disputes with Sprint, Verizon in recent months.
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A Chinese company is suing Google  Inc.&#39;s China subsidiary for copying its name, saying the U.S.  search engine&#39;s registered Chinese name is too similar to its  own and has harmed its operations.
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A drug manufacturer has been found to infringe patents licensed by the maker of a rival drug.
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A California-based software company has filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft over two patents that enable the creation of virtual private networks.
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Google has won a trade mark dispute, with a District Court judge finding that the search engineâs sale of sponsored search terms âGeicoâ and âGeico Directâ did not breach car insurance firm GEICOâs rights in the trade marked terms.
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Vonage is getting sued--again. This time telecommunications equipment maker Nortel Networks says the company has violated nine patents related to its Internet phone service.
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Lodges filing with SEC The company at the centre of an intellectual property dispute with IBM that has lasted for years is facing the prospect of financial ruin. The SCO Group said it may be unable to continue operating as a company.â¦
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USA Video Technology Corp., a small  technology firm that holds patents for the digital delivery of  media, said on Thursday it has filed a suit against top U.S.  cable operators over their video-on-demand services.
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Search Engine Keyword Trademark Infringements  On May 19, 2004, auto insurance company Geico sued Google and Overture for allegedly violating its trademarks in search-related advertisements, in the latest legal salvo against the Internet companies.  The insurer charged the two companies with infringing on its trademarks when they sold them as keywords to ...