December 6, 2016
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Samsung in its big-money smartphone patent fight with Apple, throwing out an appeals court ruling that said the South Korean company had to pay a $399 million penalty to its American rival …
December 17, 2015
The 1990s may be over but patents from that era live on. U.S. courts are seeing a rash of lawsuits involving old and sometimes expired patents as companies try to squeeze the last bit of profits from their 20-year-old inventions. …
October 19, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a $70 million jury award that Stryker Corp. won against Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. for patent infringement should be tripled. The justices agreed to hear an appeal filed by Stryker …
May 6, 2014
A U.S. jury on Monday left the total damages Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. must pay Apple Inc. unchanged at $119.6 million, after additional deliberations in a trial where the South Korean smartphone maker was found to have infringed three Apple …
October 24, 2013
A U.S. congressman, who has led the charge against frivolous patent infringement lawsuits, introduced a bill on Wednesday to curb the behavior of so-called “patent trolls” but faced criticism that some of the proposals go too far. The bill from …