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US ITC to Investigate Sharp, RIM on Patent Complaints
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| The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)
| has decided to investigate separate complaints
| made against Sharp and Research In Motion
| (RIM) that each allege the companies are
| infringing patents held by the complainants.
|
| The complaint (ITC number 337-TA-699) against
| Sharp was made by Samsung Electronics and
| claims LCD panels and modules made by the
| Japanese company infringe on Samsung's
| intellectual property. At its center are
| patents that cover the generation of high
| quality images on gray-scale LCDs (U.S. Patent
| No. 5,844,533), control signalling inside LCD
| panels (U.S. Patent No. 6,888,585) and a
| technique for improving image quality (U.S.
| Patent No. 7,436,479).
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/185728/us_itc_to_investigate_sharp_rim_on_patent_complaints.html?tk=rss_news
Patent Law Bits and Bytes: Holiday Cheer
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| # IP Innovation v. Red Hat & Novell, Case No.
| 07âcv-0447; Patent Nos. 5,072,412 and
| 5,394,521.
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http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/12/patent-law-bits-and-bytes-holiday-cheer.html
Recent:
So What About Those XML Patents, Anyway?
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| The other reason I haven't yet written is equally simple: the latest skirmish
| that i4i won in Texas really doesn't matter very much.
|
| Huh? Then why, you may fairly ask, are we reading so many breathless
| articles (3,227, by the Google News count as of this moment in time),
| speculating on the consequences and opportunities that will follow when the
| sixty days runs out under the Texas judgment, and Office disappears from the
| shelves of the U.S. retail world? Isn't Office Suite Life As We Know It
| about to end?
|
| Well, no. Sorry. The key of course, is that patents in general, and the i4i
| patent as well, are all about money. Whether or not Microsoft's emergency
| appeal to lift the Judge's order barring it from selling Office with Word as
| currently configured (i.e., with the specific offending XML capability
| included upon which the i4i suit focuses) is successful, I'll wager you that
| no one will have any more trouble buying Office the day after the 60 day
| pendancy period runs out than they did before. That's because the key to the
| solution is also all about money, calculated under three alternate paths.
|
| [...]
|
| 1. What about the "New Microsoft?" For some time now, Microsoft has been
| saying that it has grown up, leaving its Bad Boy adolescent behavior behind.
| One element of that bad behavior was getting small companies to open their
| technological kimonos to give Microsoft a peek, in hopes of getting an
| advantageous business relationship, only to find that Microsoft instead
| knocked off their technology, including it for free in a Microsoft product,
| and putting the little companies out of business, or close to it. That's
| what i4i says happened here, and the judge agreed. So much for the New
| Microsoft.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20090821090244256
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