Digimarc suing Shazam for patent infringement
Digimarc has announced that they have filed a lawsuit against the developers of Shazam music application for patent infringement.
Digimarc claims that Shazam is infringing on three of their owned patents.
Two of these patents are were awarded to them way back in 1995.
The patents are related to [...]
Google sued for Courgette updates for Chrome web browser
Google has been using a new technology they call Courgette for delivering smaller updates to the users of Google Chrome web browser.
Red Bend is a mobile software developer which has now filed a lawsuit against the search engine giant claiming that Courgette infringes on their [...]
WhoGlue sues Facebook for patent violation
WhoGlue has launched a lawsuit against Facebook for patent infringement.
The company claims that Facebook is in violation of a patent they own related to social networking communications.
This lawsuit has been filed in the Delaware federal court.
WhoGlue CEO Jason Hardebeck recently wrote in a blog post about this patent:
“Recently, [...]
Open Invention Network aims to protect Linux from Microsoft
A couple of companies are collaborating together to make sure Linux is protected from the software giant Microsoft.
Open Invention Network consists of several Microsoft rival companies. They are now working on an arrangement to acquire patents that were sold by Microsoft in the recent times.
Some of [...]
Microsoft can sell Word in the US market after all
Microsoft has finally won an approval from the courts to continue selling their Microsoft Word application in the US market.
This ruling has been given by the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit.
Microsoft has been given this approval as they continue to appeal another [...]
Twitter fails to trademark Tweet term
Twitter had filed to trademark the term Tweet earlier this year.
The popular social networking service seems to have failed in doing so.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office documents available online shows that the filing was denied.
The Patent office found out that several other companies including TweetMarks, Cotweet, and [...]
Microsoft knew about i4i technologies before Word 11 was launched
Microsoft recently lost a lawsuit filed by Canadian company i4i which has now made things difficult for them.
Microsoft has been told to stop the sales of Microsoft Word application in the US market within the next 60 days.
The company is going to appeal the ruling [...]
Microsoft to appeal i4i ruling which forbids them from selling MS Word!
As expected Microsoft has announced that they would appeal the ruling that forbids them from selling Microsoft Word in the US market.
The ruling was given in favour of the Toronto based software company i4i. Microsoft has also been ordered to pay more [...]
Microsoft told to stop sales of Word in USA!
Patent lawsuits are surprisingly funny. Here is a new one that is making headlines on the web.
Microsoft has been barred from selling their MS Word application in the US market.
Toronto-based i4i has won an injunction against the US based software giant.
The courts have now [...]
Microsoft told to pay Uniloc in patent infringement case
Microsoft has lost a patent battle and has been asked to pay $388 million in damages to Uniloc Inc.
Uniloc specializes in developing technologies aimed at preventing piracy of software applications.
The company had claimed that Microsoft was infringing on their patents in Windows XP and some Office programs.
Paul [...]
