Toshiba Suits Accuse Hynix of Patent Infringement
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South Korea-based Hynix said it would respond to the actions and take appropriate &quot;countermeasures&quot; after reviewing the lawsuits more closely.
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Trend Micro has sued Barracuda Networks and, by extension, the entire open-source community, over a specious patent infringement claim.
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(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.
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Claims manufactured discs unlicensed Toshiba last week launched legal action against an Italian disc duplication company it maintains has infringed its intellectual property.â¦
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SanDisk&#160;is suing 25 companies, including South Korean giant LG Electronics for allegedly infringing patents used in removable flash storage products including MP3 players and USB flash drives.
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The counterclaim filed last week by Acer alleges HP has infringed its antenna and DVD-ROM head technology patents.
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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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Wii affected? Super Mario and friends are facing legal action from a US-based semiconductor intellectual property company over an alleged patent infringement - potentially within the Wii games console.â¦
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IBM filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Platform Solutions Inc. claiming PSI's systems allow IBM mainframe operating systems to run on Itanium-based hardware.
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TOKYO Toshiba, Japan&#39;s second-largest chip maker, said Tuesday that it had filed lawsuits in the United States and Japan against Hynix Semiconductor for patent violations on memory chips used in computers and other consumer electronics.
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SEOUL: South Korean prosecutors said that Hynix Semiconductor is being investigated in connection with an alleged accounting fraud involving 1.7 billion dollars.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. and Unisys Corp. have filed a U.S. lawsuit against South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc., apparently seeking damages related to a federal probe into price-fixing of memory chips, Hynix said Tuesday.
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(InfoWorld) - A patent-infringementÂ lawsuitÂ filed by Network Appliance against Sun Microsystems on Wednesday could escalate beyond the storage arena to become this decade's major test case for open-source software, according to storage analysts. NetApp contends that Sun's ZFS file-system technology, which wasÂ donatedÂ to the OpenSolaris.org open-source community earlier this year, infringes on seven NetApp patents. Andrew Reichman, an analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research, said that NetApp's effort to stop Sun from developing or distributing the file-system technology could catapult the sticky issue of open-source software ownership squarely onto the public stage. "This will be a banner case to test the viability of open-source storage software, which Sun has been touting for some time," said Reichman. Sun, he added, "is too committed to the idea of providing storage technology to users without charge via the open-source community" -- a process that "the likes of NetApp and EMC are very hostile to." The other companies, he noted, fear that open-source storage technology would cut them off from significant sources of revenue. "I think [the legal scuffle] will drag on for a long time and likely become the major test case for open-source software this decade," he said. Reichman also noted that NetApp may have difficulty convincing a judge to force Sun to pay for using the patents, given what he called Sun's convoluted revenue stream from a system that provides users with some intellectual property without charge. Mike Karp, an analyst at Enterprise Management Associates in Boulder, Colo., said that issues being raised by NetApp over ZFS in many ways mirrors theÂ legal battleÂ between Novell and The SCO Group over Unix ownership. "This is not the sort of thing that is likely to be resolved overnight. My guess is that this is going to be a very expensive suit for both sides to prosecute," said Karp. "Neither side can afford to lose this thing." Given what he calls a fragmented approach by Sun toward its StorageTek technology and reseller relationships, Reichman said he perceives ZFS as the company's "make or break" storage technology. Whether by design or not, NetApp's lawsuit will likely distract Sun's fledgling storage effort, he added. "[Sun] already has significant challenges in productizing ZFS-based storage offerings and emerging as a force in storage, and [the lawsuit] will only compound that," Reichman remarked. Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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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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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.
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SanDisk Corp. is suing 25 companies, including South Korean giant LG Electronics Inc. for allegedly infringing patents used in removable flash storage products including MP3 players and USB flash drives.
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Company alleges patent infringement by rival disk maker GS Magicstor.