exchanging information related to trade of products that
infringes the intellectual property rights with other focal points that are located in member states;
At the beginning of the week, Kodak sued Apple and HTC Corporation claiming some of their smartphones, tablets and other devices
infringe Kodak patents related to transmitting images.
The ITC determined that Cross Match's asserted patents were all valid and enforceable and it issued a limited exclusion order barring entry into the United States of Suprema's biometric scanning devices, components and associated software that
infringe certain claims of Cross Match patents covering hardware and software directed to advanced biometric technologies.
The Court also found that NPWT products marketed by Smith & Nephew plc (EoACA[pounds sterling]SNNEoACA[yen])
infringe one of the patents.
law section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 by the unlawful importation and sale of microphone packages that
infringe Knowles' U.S.
The court ruled that LI infringed the H2 patent (although LI stated that its techniques no longer did so) but LI's H1 techniques did not
infringe. This was an interim judgement and a formal trial date had yet to be set.
The Court of Appeals upheld the District Court's decision that J&J's Bx Velocity and Cypher Stent Systems
infringe Boston Scientific's patent and that the patent is valid.
The six patents that SiRF was found to
infringe are United States patents 6,417,801; 6,937,187; 6,606,346; 7,158,080; 6,704,651; and 6,651,000 -- relating to extended ephemeris assistance (Long Term Orbits), calculating time in GPS receivers, enhancing sensitivity in assisted GPS systems, and implementing hardware structures for parallel correlation.
Freedom accuses the companies of knowingly and willfully infringing and continuing to
infringe on Freedom's patents ('067, '067, '823, '823 and '851) related to secure cellular telecommunications systems delivering prepaid calling services.
Chan Li Machinery agreed to immediately stop the manufacture, sale, and worldwide export of tissue roll converting machinery lines (model 400CL Rewinder, model 168H Log Saw and Tail Sealers) asserted to
infringe Fabio Perini's patents and has agreed for the future not to manufacture, sell and export any different tissue converting machinery infringing Fabio Perini's intellectual property.
Universal Studios case that providers of a product or service that could be used to
infringe copyright protections weren't liable so long as their product or service also had "substantial noninfringing uses," the Supreme Court found that Grokster and StreamCast--makers of the Morpheus file-sharing service--profited from promotion of their products as allowing illegal file-sharing, and that the firms didn't take reasonable steps to reduce infringing uses.
In 1990, the Supreme Court issued a decision essentially overturning Sherbert and Yoder, concluding that the Constitution did not require government to prove a compelling interest in laws that
infringe, even substantially, on religious freedom.
