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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is setting up a website with advice for anyone accused of patent infringement.
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Read More »Supreme Court patent ruling leaves burden-of-proof questions
The ruling left many patent attorneys wanting more guidance on how to help their clients avoid landing in the courtroom in the first place.
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Read More »U.S. appeals court: Patent suit losers should pay costs more often
Patent owners who lose infringement lawsuits should have to pay the winner’s legal fees more often, a U.S. appeals court said.
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Read More »Appeals court: Patent suit losers should pay costs more often
Patent owners who lose infringement lawsuits should have to pay the winner’s legal fees more often, a U.S. appeals court said in adding its views to a debate before Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Read More »Software patents get high court review as industry divides
The case splintered a federal appeals court in a ruling that one judge said called hundreds of thousands of patents into question.
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Read More »Apple wins trial over invention of smartphone
Apple Inc., the world’s most valuable technology company, was found by a divided federal jury not to infringe the patent of a 70-year-old electrical engineer who claims he came up with the idea for the smartphone.
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Read More »Microsoft must alter Word or stop sales
Microsoft Corp., the world’s biggest software maker, must alter its popular Word software or stop selling the product after it lost its appeal of a $200 million patent-infringement verdict won by a Canadian company. The company, based in Redmond, Wash., ...
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Read More »Toyota patent trade case may threaten hybrid imports
Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s biggest seller of cars powered by a combination of gasoline and electricity, faces patent-infringement claims that may result in a U.S. import ban on some of its popular hybrid cars. Paice LLC, based in McLean, ...
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Read More »Fiserv wins suit over check fraud software
Fiserv Inc., the manager of check-processing and cash machines, won a U.S. patent-infringement lawsuit filed by a Canadian company over software technology designed to prevent check fraud. Fiserv doesn’t use the invention covered by the patent owned by closely held ...
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Read More »Mizzou, Santarus presses patent claims against Par
Santarus and the University of Missouri accused the generic drugmaker Par Pharmaceutical of infringing five U.S. patents for the heartburn medicine Zegerid as a nonjury trial began in federal court. Santarus, a San Diego-based company that licenses the patents from ...
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Read More »St. Louis company pays $27.7M to end patent dispute
Mars Inc., the maker of M&M candies, received payment of $27.7 million Tuesday in the final stage of a 20-year-old patent dispute with a St. Louis company. The fight was over electronic-coin mechanism technology for vending machines. Mars, based in ...
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