USA Video Suit Targets Cabler Firms’ VOD Plans
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Apple Countersues Creative Over Patents, More
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Creative Suing Apple; Claims Violation of “Zen” Patent
Skunked in retail, Singapore-based Creative Technology Ltd. is going after Apple in U.S. District Court for what it claims are “willful” pat… Read more »
Supreme Court Rules For EBay; Patent Injunctions Not Automatic
EBay took its contention that injunctions demanded in patent lawsuits shouldn’t be granted automatically all the way to the U.S. Supreme Cou… Read more »
RealNetworks’ Streaming Media Patent: A Cause for Concern?
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The general consensus is: yes and no…in other words, not yet, but could be. RealNetworks got a broad streaming media patent approved last… Read more »
RealNetworks Gets Streaming Patent; May Give It a Competitive Edge
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First it was Acacia, would RNWK follow the litigation route? Unlikely that it will be heavy handed, but anyway: RealNetworks has received a… Read more »
RealNetworks Wins Patent Suit Over Ethos
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RealNetworks has prevailed in a $200 million patent infringement lawsuit originally brought against it by Ethos Technologies in 2002.
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TiVo Gets $73 Million Patent Win Against Echostar
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A federal jury awarded TiVo more than $73 million in damages in a “life or death” lawsuit for the company’s patent infringement lawsuit agai… Read more »
Netflix Sues Blockbuster For Online Patent Infringement; Asks Closure
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Legalese: Apple, eBay, TiVo All In Court Wednesday
Three court cases are in the spotlight today with varying potential effects.
TiVo- EchoStar: TiVo co-founder Mike Ramsey testified today tha… Read more »
RIM Will Pay NTP $612.5 MIllion To Settle Patent Dispute
Looks like both sides listened to Judge James Spencer’s warning that they wouldn’t like his resolution and finally found a solution. Blackbe… Read more »
Another Round Of Patent-opoly Begins: AT&T Warns Apple, Others On MPEG-4
AT&T is warning Apple and other companies (CyberLink Corp., DivX, Inc., InterVideo, Inc., and Sonic Solutions) that use of MPEG-4 without a… Read more »
Patents: UK IP Review; RIM, eBay Not Victims; Supremes Take Case
– U.K. reviewing intellectual-property laws: Former FT editor Andrew Gowers has been asked to lead an independent review of UK IP rights in… Read more »
Yahoo To Get Aggressive On Patents
By Rafat Ali
Yahoo plans to apply for about 20 times more U.S. patents next year than it did in 2002….Yahoo, which spends about $500 million annually o… Read more »
Gemstar Sues Tribune Over Online TV Listings
By Rafat Ali
Gemstar-TV Guide has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Tribune-owned Zap2It, a site that includes TV programing guides. The lawsui… Read more »
Apple Raises Ire With Move To Trademark iPodcast
Apple just couldn’t resist. More than a year after the term “podcast” joined the vocabulary — and after a year of ignoring podcasting until… Read more »
Patent Threat Looms Over Dynamic Web Pages
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Another one in patent madness: Former web acceleration company EpicRealm has filed lawsuits against 13 companies for infringing on two paten… Read more »
Rival of Apple, Armed With Fresh Patent, May Seek IPod Royalties
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(reg. req.) If this happens, it will be a sad commentary on the state of affairs of the digital music industry, unable to compete with iPod.… Read more »
Content-Related Patents Granted Over Last Week
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Some interesting digital content related patents granted over last week, by the USPTO:
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Content-Related Patents Granted Recently
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Some interesting digital content related patents granted this month, by the USPTO:
– # 6,925,504: Methods and apparatus for obtaining conte… Read more »
Earnings: Acacia’s Patent Loot
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Acacia, the controversial digital-media patent holding company, has reported its Q2 results and a bunch of details on its growing portfolio… Read more »
Patents In Digital Media
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Companies are trying to profit from patents, but do they protect unsung inventors–or opportunist litigants? A News.com story which includes… Read more »
Patent Holder Forgent Sues 15 Companies Over Playback During Video Recording
Forgent Networks is suing 15 companies — a who’s who of DVR providers — on the grounds that they are infringing on U.S. Patent 6,285,746… Read more »
Microsoft’s New Digital Media Personalization Patent
I wouldn’t read too much into it right now, but keep an eye out for it…A patent granted to Microsoft this week hints at the invention of n… Read more »
European Download Patent Revoked
A UK patents court has ruled that the European “Freeny” patent, which covers the downloading and recording of information such as music, new… Read more »
AdMission Granted Far-Reaching Patent On Uploaded Media
AdMission Corp., a provider of rich-media processing technology and directional advertising platforms, has been granted a patent for technol… Read more »
Amazon Patents Method Of Sharing Information Between Web Pages
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Not a clue what this means or what kind of mischief it might allow Amazon to make but Jeff Bezos and Ashish Gupta now have patent #6,889,250… Read more »
Cendant Sues Amazon.com Over Recommendation Patent
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Is this related to the much-vaunted “collaborative filtering” patent which Amazon.com has? Anyway, Cendant has sued Amazon on the recommenda… Read more »
PalmSource Settles Patent Suit with Digeo
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Digeo, the Paul Allen-backed maker of software and services for digital cable TV, has settled a patent infringement suit with PalmSource, ma… Read more »
AgentArt Gets Content Relevance Patent
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AgentArts, a content personalization technology company, has received an interesting patent…it sounds a bit like Amazon.com’s collaborativ… Read more »
Amazon, Netflix Hit With Patent Suit
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BTG, a London-based IP firm, has filed suit against Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, and two other Net companies for infringing on patents…… Read more »
Suit Accuses MLB of Online Patent Infringement
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An intellectual property holding company, DDB Technologies of Austin, Texas, is suing Major League Baseball for what it considers patent inf… Read more »
Forgent Settles with Macromedia Over JPEG Infringement, Sets Sights On TiVo and MP3 Players
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Be worried, very worried..Last week Macromedia settled with Forgent over JPEG patent infringement issue. Today Forgent creates “enhanced int… Read more »
Microsoft Patents Tabbing Through A Web Page
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Say what? According to US Patent 6,785,865 (Discoverability and navigation of hyperlinks via tabs – Cote et al), the practice of tabbing thr… Read more »
Kasenna Bags Three More Patents For IP VOD
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Adding more technical fuel to its Internet Protocol video-on-demand products, Kasenna has been awarded an additional three patents covering… Read more »
Two Strikes For Eolas
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has handed Microsoft a second victory in its dispute with Eolas, rejecting browser patent claims that c… Read more »
Yahoo, Google Resolve Patent Disputes
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Now both can kill each other in the market instead of the courts…Google will license a patent held by Overture Services, which Yahoo acqui… Read more »
Apple Licenses Digital Music Patent From E-Data
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E-Data, a small patent-only company that holds a key digital distribution patent, has reached a European agreement with Apple that gave the… Read more »
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