06:57 • 07 Jan 2009
News Stories belonging to Electronics
TiVo Wins $94 million DVR Patent Lawsuit
Shares in Tivo Inc rocketed almost 30% after the home entertainment manufacturer won a patent infringement case against Dish Network. The case came about when Dish Network, a major US satellite TV provider, requested the USPTO to re-examine a TiVo rega...
IBM requests bans on Asus imports over patent complaint
IBM has asked the US government to ban certain imports from Asustek, a Taiwanese PC manufacturer, stating that the computers they produce infringes on three of their patents. Ari Fishkind, an IBM spokesman, said "They use the patented technology f...
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) sued for patent infringement
The OLPC foundation originally hoped to build and sell laptops to schools at around $100 per unit. Now the price stands just shy of $200 each (for an order of 10,000) and production of these child-sized laptops went into mass production last month. How...
SanDisk Sues 25 Companies for Patent Infringement
SanDisk has announced the filing of three patent infringement actions against 25 companies that manufacture, sell and import USB flash drives, CompactFlash cards, multimedia cards, MP3/media players and/or other removable flash storage products. The ac...
HD DVD patent holders begin cross licence meetings
MPEG LA announced that the first meeting of essential HD DVD patent owners, currently consisting of 16 companies, was held in Los Angeles at the end of September. The purpose of the meeting was to create a joint license providing fair, reasonable, non-...
'Pioneer' a famous trademark in China
Pioneer and the Chinese characters of the same word, have been officially approved as famous trademarks of China in Category 9, Audio Equipment. The Pioneer trademarks follow the six Japanese companies' trademarks that have been already approved in Chi...
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Japanese electronics giant Sharp Corporation has announced that is has filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for the alleged infringements of five patents used in television, computer monitor and mobile phone technology.
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‘Big Technology’ infringement suits could be harder to bring following a US Supreme Court ruling of 30 April. A verdict on KSR International Co v Teleflex Inc – previously reported on IP Review Online – had been hotly anticipated b... -
‘Big Technology’ infringement suits could be harder to bring following a US Supreme Court ruling of 30 April. A verdict on KSR International Co v Teleflex Inc – previously reported on IP Review Online – had been hotly anticipated b...
Tech orgs unite to preserve patent procedure
The three bodies behind the World Standards Co-operation initiative (WSC) have harmonised their policies on the inclusion of patented technology in standards. The move was announced in a 19 March joint press release from the International Electrotechnical...Secrecy vs security on the conference circuit
A US firm has been prevented from revealing the dangers of RFID chip-cloning to businesses, after a technology firm alleged that two of its patents had been infringed by the demonstration equipment. RFID (radio-frequency identification) is a growing techn...Cisco sues Apple over iPhone trademark infringement
It has been common knowledge for some time in the IP world that that Apple has been seeking a trademark for its new iPhone since 2001. However, their decision to go ahead and release the iPhone without legal rights to the name surprised trademark lawyers ...-
Unlike many things in life – an ice-cream sundae, say – the desirability of a gadget depends on how small, clean and simple it is. Hence the success of the iPod. Remember cassette players? We’ve come a very long way. iPod, and relate...
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As more and more mobile phone users choose to browse the Internet on their handsets, brand owners are starting to tailor their domain name registrations to meet this new need. Caroline Greer explains how the new .mobi domain is helping to make the Interne...