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Feds Rule Apple Did Not Violate Google Patent

Apple Inc scored a win on Monday when the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that it did not violate a Google patent to make the popular iPhones. Apple had initially been accused of infringing on six patents for iPhone-related technology …

Governments Getting Into Patent Buying Business: Reuters

Patent competition in the United States is usually a fierce arena for private companies, but now the South Korean and French governments are suiting up. Both countries have launched patent-acquisition companies, with the goal of helping domestic technology firms and …

Supreme Court Justices Appear to Back Monsanto in Seed Patent Claim

U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled on Tuesday that agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. was in a strong position to claim that an Indiana farmer violated its patent for a type of soybean. In a case closely watched by the biotechnology industry, …

Google Pact with FTC Could Affect Other Patent Disputes

While the focus of last week’s agreement between the Federal Trade Commission and Google Inc. was search, the deal’s restrictions on how Google uses its patents could have a broader impact on the technology industry. Under the deal, which ended …

Toy Patent Lawsuit Ends In Favor Of Colorado Professor

A company headed by a Colorado professor who invented a strategy board game has won a $1.6 million patent infringement verdict. The Gazette reported that Michael Larson developed a game call Khet, a strategy board game using lasers and mirrors. …

U. of California Sues Facebook, Wal-Mart, Disney Over Patents

A University of California patent licensee which has sued some of the biggest U.S. companies is taking on three more — Facebook Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the Walt Disney Co. Eolas Technologies Inc. and the Regents of the University …

How Apple Outsmarted Samsung in Patent Dispute

In August 2010, just a few months after Samsung Electronics launched its Galaxy smartphone, a team of Apple Inc. lawyers flew to South Korea. Apple’s late co-founder, Steve Jobs, had already told Samsung executives at a meeting earlier that summer …

In Apple v. Samsung, Attention Turns to Alchemy of Damages

Between the hotshot designers and brainy engineers Apple Inc. questioned for three weeks in the company’s bitterly fought patent battle against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a marketing expert from MIT took Apple’s lawyers all of three minutes. But the testimony …

Jury to Begin Deliberating Patent Disputes Between Apple, Samsung

Apple Inc.’s worldwide legal crusade against the Android mobile operating system drew toward a climax on Tuesday as the iPhone maker’s attorneys accused Samsung of taking a shortcut by copying Apple’s designs after realizing it could not keep up. Closing …

Monsanto Wins Patent Suit Against DuPont in Genetically Modified Seed Case

Shares of Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company, rose on Thursday and DuPont shares fell after Monsanto won a $1 billion victory over its archrival in a lawsuit concerning patents in the agricultural seed market. The victory, which dealt with …