EagleView Wins $125M Patent Infringement Award, Sales Halt Against Verisk September 30, 2019 By Andrew G. Simpson A New Jersey jury last week ordered insurance data services firm Verisk to pay $125 million to aerial imaging firm...
University Lawsuit Accuses Big Retailers of Infringing ‘Reinvented’ Light Bulb Patent July 31, 2019 By Jonathan Stempel Five major retailers, including Amazon.com Inc and Walmart Inc, were sued on Tuesday by the University of California over what...
Sen. Rubio Bill Would Block Patent Damage Claims by Foreign Firms on Watch List June 18, 2019 U.S. Senator Marco Rubio filed legislation on Monday that would prevent Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from seeking damages in U.S....
BlackBerry Files Patent Infringement Claims Against Twitter February 28, 2019 By Jonathan Stempel BlackBerry Ltd. on Wednesday filed a patent infringement lawsuit accusing Twitter Inc. of illegally using technology in its mobile messaging...
Williams-Sonoma Lawsuit Claims Amazon Infringes Furniture Patent, Trademark December 19, 2018 By Spencer Soper Williams-Sonoma Inc. sued Amazon.com Inc. in a case that challenges the online retailer’s private label push that started with batteries,...
Supreme Court to Weigh If Government Agencies Entitled to Challenge Patents October 29, 2018 By Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to take up a dispute involving a small Alabama company that accused the...
Jury Awards IBM $83 Million in Closely-Watched Patent Dispute with Groupon July 30, 2018 By Jan Wolfe A U.S. jury last Friday awarded International Business Machines Corp. $83 million in a patent dispute with e-commerce company Groupon...
Lyft Faces Patent Suit by Professor Over Ridesharing Model July 25, 2018 By Jonathan Stempel A retired Georgia Institute of Technology engineering professor described as a “pioneer” in developing the idea of ride sharing sued...
Supreme Court Expands Patent Owners’ Recovery of Foreign-Based Damages June 26, 2018 By Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that companies can recover profits lost because of the unauthorized use of their...
Baseball Pitch Tracking Graphics Caught in Patent Brawl June 19, 2018 By Christopher Yasiejko The virtual strike zone has been a feature of televised baseball games for almost two decades. The graphical overlay shows...