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InternetNews February 28, 2008 |
eBay, MercExchange Settle Long Legal Fight eBay and MercExchange have settled a long-running patent lawsuit, said eBay on Thursday, ending a fight that prompted a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling.  |
InternetNews March 30, 2005 Tim Gray |
EBay Wins Patent Ruling If the action is upheld it would invalidate the MercExchange patent that led to a $25 million judgment against eBay over the "Buy It Now" feature.  |
InternetNews November 28, 2005 Roy Mark |
EBay in High Court Over Patent Dispute The United States Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear eBay's appeal of the long-running and bitter patent dispute between the online auction giant and MercExchange, a vendor of custom software for online auctions, messaging and streamcasting.  |
InternetNews March 17, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Ebay Hit on Patent Infringement An appeals court throws out one MercExchange patent, upholds rest of lower court ruling.  |
InternetNews July 30, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Court Denies Injunction of eBay's Buy It Now In a protracted legal battle, MercExchange fails to demonstrate that eBay's use of the Buy It Now function creates 'irreparable harm.'  |
InternetNews March 13, 2006 Roy Mark |
Feds Side Against eBay in Patent Case The United States government is siding with a Virginia patent holder that eBay willfully infringed on its patents and should be barred from using its popular "Buy It Now" feature, which allows a buyer to purchase an item at a set price.  |
InternetNews February 28, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
eBay, MercExchange Bury The Hatchet eBay said that it would purchase the three patents from MercExchange, putting to rest a long-running legal squabble that dates back to September 2001.  |
InternetNews June 9, 2011 |
Microsoft Loses Supreme Court Patent Case Top U.S. court rules against Microsoft in i4i patent appeal.  |
InternetNews March 24, 2006 Roy Mark |
Crushing Small Innovators Next week's Supreme Court hearing between MercExchange and eBay underscores Silicon Valley's indifference to the little guy's patent rights.  |
Entrepreneur September 2006 Jane Easter Bahls |
Toppling Trolls Patent trolls take a hit in a Supreme Court ruling.  |
The Motley Fool May 17, 2006 Rich Duprey |
A Patently Offensive Ruling? eBay vs. MercExchange was the wrong ruling in the right case. Rather than balancing the power between "patent trolls" and innovation, this ruling could end up tipping the scales against small-time inventors who lack the resources to challenge corporations that usurp a patent's advancements.  |
InternetNews November 30, 2010 |
Microsoft's i4i Appeal Headed for Supreme Court Microsoft will get a chance to make its case to the U.S. Supreme Court, appealing the earlier patent infringement decision it lost to i4i.  |
InternetNews March 12, 2010 |
Microsoft Loses Another Round in i4i Case In latest setback in patent case, appeals court reiterates that Microsoft's infringement was "willful," while both sides wait to see if the court will agree to hear Microsoft's en banc appeal.  |
The Motley Fool October 3, 2007 Rich Duprey |
No Patents on Thinking ... Yet Over the years, the U.S. Patent office has patented a few too many ideas. The Supreme Court is now spending more time deciding whether a company has really infringed on a patent, rather than automatically issuing an infringement.  |
InternetNews January 30, 2007 Roy Mark |
Second Look For Dynamic Web Patents The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will review two patents held by EpicRealm, a Texas firm that has filed a number of infringement lawsuits against companies employing dynamic Web technology.  |
InternetNews March 29, 2006 Roy Mark |
eBay Urges High Court to 'Buy It Now' Online auction giant eBay told the Supreme Court today that a permanent injunction against its Buy It Now feature is unnecessary and unwarranted, contending that money damages alone could atone for the company's proven patent infringement.  |
InternetNews May 15, 2006 Roy Mark |
Supreme Court Sides With eBay The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that both a district and a federal appeals court erred in determining whether a permanent injunction is due to MercExchange in its patent-infringement battle with online auction giant eBay.  |
The Motley Fool May 16, 2006 Tom Taulli |
A Supreme Mandate on Injunctions A Supreme Court decision sets a landmark precedent on how far patent holders can push tech companies. RIMM-like mega judgments might be a thing of the past. And that's definitely a nice thing for investors in eBay this time, and tech investors overall.  |
InternetNews October 21, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Patent Suit Against RIM Moves On Wireless e-mail provider Research in Motion won't get a break from NTP's patent infringement suit.  |
InternetNews May 15, 2006 Roy Mark |
High Court Bounces Buy It Now Injunction Justices rule eBay may continue to offer service and orders a new review of permanent injunction sought by MercExchange.  |
InternetNews November 30, 2005 Roy Mark |
RIM Suffers Another BlackBerry Legal Defeat The $450 million patent dispute settlement between Research in Motion and NTP, Inc. is invalid, according to a court ruling issued Wednesday morning.  |
InternetNews May 26, 2011 |
Microsoft Appeals Massive EU Fine While a ruling on the outcome is months away, Microsoft's appeal this week of a massive fine by the European Commission is being eyed by other U.S. firms.  |
Chemistry World January 7, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Myriad loses appeal on cancer gene test patents Myriad Genetics has lost its appeal over patents on the BRCA genes that are associated with a higher risk of breast and ovarian cancer.  |
Chemistry World March 9, 2011 Andrew Turley |
Court halts EU patent progress The intellectual property community will have to wait a little longer for its one-size-fits-all European patent, following a key ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union  |
The Motley Fool February 24, 2011 Brian Orelli |
Abbott: 1, Johnson & Johnson: 0 -- For Now Abbott Labs got a ruling overturned yesterday that would have cost the company $1.8 billion, yet investors let shares slip down 1%.  |
Inc. November 2007 Ryan McCarthy |
Update Jacquelyn Tran becomes the latest entrepreneur to fight a suit by blogging.  |
InternetNews April 9, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft's Patent Tab: $388M Ought to Do It Jury finds that Microsoft infringed a California company's activation software patent to the tune of nearly $400 million.  |
InternetNews August 31, 2010 |
Microsoft Appeals Patent Case to Supreme Court Microsoft plays out its hand in effort to reverse the USPTO's ruling that upheld the patent of Toronto-based i4i relating to a custom XML technology.  |
InternetNews January 15, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
Microsoft To Appeal Latest Browser Ruling The controversial patent spat has taken a new turn with a judge ordering Microsoft to pay $521M in damages, but waiting for an appeal.  |
InternetNews November 16, 2007 |
Court Affirms Vonage Infringed Two Verizon Patents A U.S. appeals court upheld a verdict that Vonage infringed two patents held by Verizon. This is the latest legal setback for the loss-making Internet phone company.  |
InternetNews March 3, 2006 Roy Mark |
Trolling for Patents Patent infringement claims are easy to make and difficult to disprove.  |
InternetNews June 8, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
RIM's Last Stand? The mobile e-mail provider is back in court, fighting an injunction that would force it to close its U.S. operation.  |
InternetNews March 2, 2005 |
Victory For Microsoft in Browser Plug-In Appeal The decision by a U.S. Circuit Court effectively overturns a lower-court ruling that the ActiveX technology used in Internet Explorer infringes on a patent. A loss by Microsoft could have lead to the crippling of a wide variety of common Web applications.  |
InternetNews January 22, 2008 |
eBay CEO Whitman Near Retirement? Report claims longtime eBay CEO is making good on a decade-old hint and firming up succession plans.  |
InternetNews May 3, 2007 Roy Mark |
Court Rejects Vonage New Trial Bid A federal appeals court late Wednesday rejected Vonage's motion for a new trial in its bitter patent infringement feud with Verizon.  |
The Motley Fool July 1, 2011 Dan Radovsky |
Can the Human Genetics Industry Survive the Courts? The future of gene patents is at stake.  |
InternetNews May 10, 2007 Roy Mark |
Vonage Playing Supreme Court Card Vonage claims a recent Supreme Court ruling will make it obvious company didn't infringe on Verizon patents.  |
InternetNews March 28, 2011 |
Kodak CEO Hopes for $1 Billion in Patent Suit Eastman Kodak's head told Bloomberg he thinks a patent victory in court could bring in $1 billion. Kodak sued Apple and RIM in January 2010 for what it claims is infringement of a patent it holds in the area of previewing images in iPhone and Blackberry mobile devices.  |
InternetNews September 26, 2007 Caron Carlson |
Vonage Dealt Sprint Nextel, Verizon Patent Blows VoIP provider Vonage, in the midst of Verizon appeals, takes a Sprint Nextel patent blow.  |
InternetNews September 29, 2009 |
Judge Overturns Uniloc Verdict and $388M Fine Microsoft could win the equivalent of a damages trifecta across several cases if its luck keeps up.  |
InternetNews August 12, 2009 |
Microsoft Blocked From Selling Word, Fined $290M A U.S. court yesterday slapped Microsoft with a $290 million fine and ordered it to cease selling versions of Microsoft Office Word, marking the latest fallout from a patent dispute with a smaller firm.  |
The Motley Fool March 13, 2008 Stephen Albainy-Jenei |
Pfizer's Celebrex Aches and Pains The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upholds a lower court's ruling that found Teva Pharmaceutical had infringed two of Pfizer's patents for Celebrex.  |
InternetNews June 25, 2007 Roy Mark |
Court Raises Possible Vonage Injunction Relief Vonage tells appeals court that an injunction isn't necessary even if court upholds the VoIP provider infringed on Verizon patents.  |
InternetNews April 2, 2010 |
eBay Victorious in Trademark Dispute The online auction site dodged a bullet this week after an appellate court found that it did not infringe on Tiffany & Co.'s trademark by enabling the sale of thousands of counterfeit items.  |
The Motley Fool August 31, 2011 John Grgurich |
How the Patent Wars Are Hurting High-Tech Well-intentioned patent laws are threatening to stifle innovation.  |
InternetNews May 2, 2007 |
Federal Judge Approves Alcatel/Microsoft Ruling A $1.53 billion patent infringement suit against Microsoft over MP3 playback is upheld.  |
InternetNews April 25, 2006 Nicholas Carlson |
RealNetworks Looks To Squash 'Trolls' RealNetworks secured a patent to protect some of its earliest streaming technologies.  |
The Motley Fool November 11, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
eBay's Brainy Bid eBay flexes its data muscles to make its competitive advantage even stronger.  |
InternetNews July 28, 2010 |
USPTO Deals Microsoft Setback in i4i Patent Case U.S. Patent and Trademark Office upholds Canadian firm i4i's patent for a custom XML editor, further narrowing Microsoft's options in a $290 million infringement case.  |
InternetNews May 1, 2007 Roy Mark |
Vonage Asks Court to Vacate Infringement Verdict Vonage late on Tuesday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to vacate a lower court decision that the Internet telephone company infringed on patents held by Verizon.  |