SiRF Sues Global Locate for Patent Infringement
606327
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 18  /PRNewswire/ -- SiRF Technology, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. , a leading provider of GPS-enabled location technology, announced today that it has filed a patent infringement complaint against Global Locate and its U.S.
70223
Honeywell on Wednesday announced that it has filed suit against Apple and 33 other companies for alleged patent infringement over a technology that &quot;increases the brightness of images and that reduces the appearance of certain interference effects on a
623432
Software giant contesting order to pay &#36;521 million in patent infringement verdict.
525416
Lawsuit alleges the software giant unlawfully attempted to eliminate competition from Novell&#39;s WordPerfect and Quattro Pro applications.
112894
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.Lagos Analysis Corp., or Lancor, is still trying to settle after&#160;filing the patent lawsuit&#160;in Federal High Court, Lagos Judicial Division in Nigeria, said Ad&#233; Oyegbola, Lancor&#39;s CEO. Lancor, now based in Natick, Massachusetts, has offices in Nigeria and owns a Nigerian patent for a four-shift keyboard, allowing computers to better handle multiple languages, Oyegbola said.Oyegbola on Wednesday confirmed information published on the Groklaw blog saying that in August his company had asked OLPC for $20 million. That figure was based on OLPC information on potential distribution in Nigeria, Oyegbola said.Nigeria, in July 2006,&#160;placed an order for 1 million of the laptops, but the Nigerian government is now reviewing that decision. Lancor&#39;s Konyin Multilingual Keyboards sell for $19.95, meaning 1 million of them would be worth approximately $20 million.Lancor in December obtained a temporary injunction against OLPC distributing its laptop in the country.&quot;We didn&#39;t start the process because we&#39;re looking for the money,&quot; Oyegbola said. &quot;It doesn&#39;t make sense for us not to protect our intellectual property.&quot;Lancor, in its lawsuit, accuses OLPC of illegal reverse engineering its multilingual keyboard.But OLPC had not yet begun selling its laptop at the time of the demand, OLPC&#39;s lawyer wrote in a letter published on Groklaw. &quot;I feel obliged to note that, given the fact that OLPC has sold no multilingual keyboards, and that, according to Lancor&#39;s Web site, its multilingual keyboard sells for $19.95, your demand for $20 million is not well founded,&quot; lawyer Bruce Parker of the Foley Hoag law firm wrote.Groklaw&#39;s Pamela Jones, a frequent critic of patent lawsuits against open-source projects, called the lawsuit &quot;ridiculous.&quot;&quot;In short, they apparently jumped the gun, sending the dunning letter before OLPC had even shipped anything, not to mention that OLPC is a charity, not a business, and asking for money in a sum that doesn&#39;t match reality,&quot; she wrote.A OLPC spokeswoman didn&#39;t immediately respond to a request for a comment.Oyegbola said he hopes his company can still settle with OLPC. &quot;We&#39;re hoping it doesn&#39;t get to [a trial],&quot; he said. &quot;It&#39;s in the hands of the lawyers now.&quot;The evidence against OLPC is sketchy, Jones wrote on Groklaw. She questioned Oyegbola&#39;s motives, saying his actions may aid a rival project by Intel.&quot;Maybe this doomed litigation effort will last just long enough for a Nigerian knock-off of the OLPC, or the&#160;OLPC on Intel, to become ready for release,&quot; she wrote. &quot;Maybe it&#39;s just about money a couple of guys want. Who knows why people do things like this?&quot;The goal of the nonprofit OLPC, founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte, is to donate laptops to children in developing nations. Through Dec. 31, residents of the U.S. and Canada could&#160;donate $400 and get one laptop for themselves, while sending a second to a child overseas.
757212
A legal battle is shaping up in California involving a Chinese startup that makes equipment used to produce semiconductors.Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment&#160;(AMEC), of Shanghai, was sued in California by Applied Materials, which claims the company misappropriated its trade secrets. But lawyers for the Chinese company asked the judge to dismiss the suit, arguing the U.S. court has no jurisdiction over AMEC&#39;s activities.AMEC&#39;s motion for dismissal will be heard by Judge James Ware of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, on Feb. 11.Applied&#39;s lawsuit, filed in October and amended last month, claims AMEC used its trade secrets to develop etch and CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposit) tools that are used to make chips. AMEC&#39;s tools will compete against similar products from Applied, which cost millions of dollars each. Applied is seeking an injunction from the court to prevent the misappropriation of its trade secrets and wants punitive damages as well as a declaration that it owns patent applications recently filed by AMEC.Applied identified four former employees in the suit, including AMEC founders Gerald Yin and Aihua Chen.Applied&#39;s amended complaint describes Yin, who left Applied in 2004 to start AMEC, as a former corporate vice president and chief technology officer who &quot;managed the etch product group and had broad access to Applied confidential information and trade secrets concerning its etch tools.&quot; In addition, the complaint says Chen at one point served as general manager of Applied&#39;s CVD product group and had access to proprietary technology related to those tools.To bolster its case against AMEC, Applied noted that the former employees identified in the lawsuit signed agreements that give Applied all rights to inventions made during their employment, and prevent them from using Applied&#39;s confidential information for anyone else&#39;s benefit. Under the agreement, any patents filed by the former employees within one year of leaving Applied are &quot;presumed to have been conceived or made during their employment with Applied and would belong to Applied.&quot;As a result, Applied&#39;s complaint lays claim to two AMEC patent applications filed in China on August 5, 2005, that name Yin and other former Applied employees as inventors. These patents should belong to Applied as the patent applications were made &quot;one year and three days after Yin left applied&quot; and therefore must be based on information that Yin disclosed to AMEC during the one year period, the complaint said.AMEC subsequently filed patent claims in Japan and the U.S. based on the Chinese patent applications. Applied&#39;s complaint also claims these patent applications as its own, noting Applied filed its own patent applications covering the same technologies.In response, AMEC&#39;s motion to dismiss argues that the U.S. court has no jurisdiction over the Chinese company.&quot;In this case, there is no jurisdiction over AMEC Inc., because the allegations of the (amended complaint) relate exclusively to actions that took place in China. None of Applied&#39;s claims arises out of allegations concerning contact with California,&quot; the motion said, adding any legal action by Applied against AMEC should be heard in a Chinese court instead.
545226
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies sues for infringement of multiple Hitachi patents relating to hard-disk drives.
577851
(InfoWorld) - A California-based software company has filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft over two patents that enable the creation of virtual private networks. VirnetX, a company that builds software for secure communications, claims Microsoft is infringing on two of its patents, according to a press statement by the company, which is based in Scotts Valley, California. One of the patents relates to establishing a secure communication link or VPN, while the other is for a method and system of transparently creating a VPN, the company said. VirnetX is seeking damages from Microsoft as well as an injunction against the company from using the patented technologies. Law firm McDermott Will & Emery is handling the case for VirnetX. VirnetX CEO and President Kendall Larsen did not return a call seeking comment on Thursday. Microsoft could not be reached immediately for comment through its public relations firm Thursday.
426256
Judges weigh IP liability A US court case that threatens to ramp-up damages against US technology companies which lose patent infringement suits has entered its final stages.â¦
639567
A Chinese company has taken Google's China operations to court over what it says is an infringement of the Chinese translation of its name, "Guge," according to court documents.
360309
In the latest squabble over patents between Japanese and South Korean electronics giants, Toshiba has sued Hynix Semiconductor's Japan and U.S. units, alleging patent infringement in flash-memory chips, key components in digital cameras and cell phones.
525050
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).
533397
A company suing the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Association for patent infringement has asked for US$20 million to settle claims that the nonprofit had copied its keyboard.
437278
Taiwan's Acer Inc. said Friday it has filed a counterclaim in a U.S. court against a patent infringement lawsuit by Hewlett-Packard Co.
709317
In a case that could shake up the growing market in wireless Internet &quot;hot spots,&quot; a New Hampshire company is suing a leading hot spot provider, alleging patent infringement. If PowerOasis Inc. of Nashua wins its case against Wayport Inc. of Austin, Texas, thousands of travelers could lose access to the Internet in hotels and airports.
329844
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion   has sued Motorola , over what the Canadian  company says are patent infringements and "exorbitant"  licensing fees, according to court documents.
466429
Japan's Toshiba Corp. filed patent infringement lawsuits in Japanese and U.S. courts on Monday against South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc., it said Tuesday.