patent infringement

Apple is being sued among other companies by the Alcatel-Lucent backed Multimedia Patent Trust (MPT) that submitted its filing with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on Monday. The lawsuit accuses the Cupertino along with Canon, LG Electronics and TiVo of infringing MPT’s patents on video compression.

In a standard move to get out financial trouble a Hong Kong monitor manufacturer decided to sue Apple over alleged patents infringement. As reported by The People’s Daily, Proview International registered the iPad trademark outside of China in 2000. One division of the company, Proview Taipei, failed in its attempt to market an iPad computer, and sold the rights to the trademark to Apple.

Two patent lawsuits and one patent complained were filed by Motorola with the US International Trade Commission and US federal court. The company sues Apple for infringing its patents in a range of the Cupertino products.

Apple expressed its resentment against a $625.5 million judgment in a case brought by Mirror Worlds, which sued the Cupertino company in 2008 for alleged patent infringement.

According to the lawsuit filing Mirror Words accused Apple's iPod device, iPhone, and Mac OS X of infringing on a number of for a way documents are displayed on a computer screen. The litigation focused on the Spotlight, Time Machine, and Cover Flow features in Apple's OSes, which eventually led to the second biggest jury verdict so far this year, and the fourth biggest patent verdict in U.S. history.

Oracle started a lawsuit against Google on allegations that the search giant has infringed its patents in Android phone software. The infringed patents and copyrights relate to Java.

"In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property. This lawsuit seeks appropriate remedies for their infringement," Oracle spokeswoman Karen Tillman said in a statement.

The suit was filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco and seeks a jury trial.

Microsoft has achieved an agreement with rival Salesforce.com over patent infringement lawsuits between the two companies.

In May, Microsoft sued Salesforce -- which specializes in sales software sold and used online -- charging it with stealing its intellectual property. Salesforce countersued in June, accusing Microsoft of infringing its patents.

The details of the agreement were not disclosed, but the companies will be able to use technology protected by the other's patents. Microsoft said Salesforce is compensating it.

Apple has launched a lawsuit against companies who allegedly infringe a number of its patents by selling unauthorized electronic accessories such as chargers, speakers and cables for the iPod music player, iPhone and iPad tablet computer.

"Many are of inferior quality and reliability, raising significant concerns over compatibility with and damage to Apple's products," Apple (AAPL) said in the complaint, citing a user comment that a charger from one of the companies drained his iPod rather than replenishing the battery.

Facebook won a two year lawsuit filed by the little known company Leader Technologies over the claims that the social networking giant infringed Leader’s patent. The eight-member jury ruled that Leader's patent was invalid, according to Facebook's attorney, Michael Rhodes of Cooley LLP, which represents Facebook. However, Leader said it would ask the judge to set aside the verdict.

"It's called checkmate," said Rhodes. "We are very pleased."

In response to recent filing of a lawsuit by Apple a Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp filed its own complaint against the Cupertino with the International Trade Commission. HTC asked the regulator to ban US sales of iPhones, iPads and iPods.

The filing says that Apple has infringed five of HTC patents related to cellphone directory hardware and software and power-management technology in portable devices.

19 computer and phone makers are accused by Wi-Lan Inc, the Canadian technology licensing company, of infringing a patent by selling laptops and cellular handsets enabled with Bluetooth technology.

Blue-chip companies like Apple Inc, Dell Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co and Intel Corp. are among the defendants sued by the Canadian outfit.

On Thursday Microsoft Corp filed a lawsuit against a British video game accessory maker Datel Design and Development Ltd claiming that the company infringes its patens by copying the game console controllers.

Microsoft says that Datel's "TurboFire" and "WildFire" wireless controllers -- which resemble Xbox controllers and sell for up to $50 on the Internet -- infringe a number of Microsoft patents.

A suddenly hatched company is suing largest mobile firms in the US over numerous patents infringement. Apple, Research in Motion, AT&T, Insight Enterprises, LG Electronics, Motorola, Pantech Wireless, Samsung and Sanyo are accused of violating one or more of seven mobile phone–related patents. Those allegedly infringed patents include ones for Bluetooth connectivity, syncing, background processing and other mobile matters.

HTC is being sued by Apple Inc over patent infringement. The Cupertino company filed a complaint with the US District Court, as well as the US International Trade Commission, alleging 20 patent infringements including UI and hardware as well as architectural design.

Apple seeks blocking HTC from importing patent-infringing electronics into the USA.

"We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours," says Steve Jobs in the statement from the company.

Yahoo, Google and YouTube are being sued by Xerox over infringement of Xerox patents on search and integration technologies. The company filed the lawsuit last week with the US District Court for the District of Delaware.

The filing alleges that Google's AdWords and AdSense services violate a Xerox patent on automatically generating searches. Besides, the company also states that Yahoo Search Marketing, Yahoo Publisher Network and Y!Q Contextual Search infringe the patent.

Yahoo lost a patent infringement case filed against it by Acacia Research Corporation. The company will have to pay $12.4 million to Acacia’s subsidiary Creative Internet Advertising Corporation under the final judgment brought by the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

In the final judgment signed on February 1st, 2010, the court awarded enhanced damages for willful infringement of $4.5 million. Besides, the District Court also awarded prejudgment interest of $1.1 million as well as supplemental damages bringing thus the total award to about $12.4.