Samsung, Ericsson Settle Patent Dispute
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Rival mobile telephony vendors are settling their court battle with a cross-licensing agreement.
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Microsoft Corp.  and South  Korea&#39;s LG Electronics (066570.KS) said on Thursday they agreed  a patent cross-licensing deal, sending LG shares to their  highest in more than a year.
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Software giant Microsoft Corp. and UK-based cell phone maker Sendo Holdings plc. on Monday reached a settlement to their intellectual property dispute over a failed smart-phone partnership between the two companies.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden --(Business Wire)-- Dec. 10, 2004 -- Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERICY) has been awarded a contract by China Telecom Corporation Limited (China Telecom) for building its next-generation IP backbone
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A U.S. trade panel that often hears  patent disputes said on Tuesday it agreed to Samsung  Electronics Co's  request to investigate Sharp Corp   for allegedly infringing liquid crystal display  patents.
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Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have reached a cross-license agreement for their mobile telephony patents, ending recent lawsuits between the two companies, Ericsson said Monday.
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Internet-based calling company Vonage Holdings Corp.  said on Thursday that it settled a patent dispute with Verizon Communications Inc .
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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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Sony Ericsson has filed a U.S. patent  application for a mobile device with video game features, but  said on Monday it is not poised to launch a phone based on its  PlayStation Portable (PSP) video game brand.
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SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. has signed a patent cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp. covering a variety of hardware and software products, the companies said Thursday.
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TWO of the worldâs biggest electronics companies have hammered out a deal that should help keep them out of the courtroom. Japanese electronics icon Sony and South Korean rival Samsung, the worldâs leading
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A lawsuit in which mobile maker Sendo accused Microsoft of stealing its technology and customers is settled.
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Two of the world&#39;s consumer electronics giants, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sony Corp., have signed a cross-license agreement detailing mutual usage of patents across major product lines owned by the two companies.
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com December 14, 2004, 10:45 AM PT. Samsung and Sony have entered into an extensive cross-licensing agreement that will help them fill gaps in their patent portfolios and potentially stem off lawsuits.
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(InfoWorld) - Seven Networks agreed to license patents from Visto, settling a dispute between the companies over push e-mail patents. In addition to the licensing agreement, the companies have settled all legal actions against each other. The two have been battling over patents for three years. In late December, a court upheld an earlier jury decision that found that Seven had infringed on three Visto patents. But the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had already made an initial ruling that one of the patents in question was invalid. At the time, Seven said that it expected the USPTO to make its final decision during the time it appealed the court ruling. Instead, Seven has worked with Visto to settle the matter. Their dispute was one of many in the push e-mail market, an indication of the perceived potential for the industry. The battle follows the high-profile case between Research In Motion and NTP. That suit threatened to shut down the popular BlackBerry push e-mail service used by executives and government workers, butÂ RIM ultimately settled with NTP. Visto licenses patents from NTP. Visto is also battling patent infringement suits against other push e-mail providers, includingÂ Good Technology,Â RIM, andÂ Microsoft. Infowave Software was also the subject of an earlier patent suit from Visto but the company ultimately agreed to license Visto's software in 2004.
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Sprint Nextel Corp. S.N said on   Thursday it settled a patent infringement dispute with tglo.com   Inc. and Theglobe.com Inc.
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The legal battle between UK phone manufacturer Sendo and Microsoft has been settled, the companies announced on Monday morning. Sendo had been suing Microsoft for the alleged theft of trade secrets, fraud