The whole patent system needs to be overhauled. I’m not defending Apple if they did something wrong then they should pay up but small companies patent trolling big companies is not the way to run a business. You are correct, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas is notoriously known as the home of Patent Trolls..
Apple has a product, so itâs hardly patent trolling.
Akamai Technologies Inc. of Cambridge delivers massive quantities of online data for many of the world’s biggest companies. But one of its customers, Apple Inc., allegedly balked at the tens of millions of dollars it was paying Akamai and disabled its popular video conferencing service FaceTime in a bid to cut costs, according to a lawsuit filed in a federal court. The case filed in early …
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission launched a lawsuit against Qualcomm on Tuesday, accusing the company of forcing Apple into an exclusive deal to buy its baseband chips. When Apple sought to lower the patent royalties it was paying Qualcomm, the latter firm made that conditional on Apple buying Qualcomm chips exclusively between 2011 and 2016, according to an FTC filing seen by Bloomberg . The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus still use Qualcomm chips in some configurations, while others are now based on Intel modems. Bloomberg did not initially offer any other details on the suit. The FTC has been investigating Qualcomm since 2014, concerned …
The UC Board of Regents filed a lawsuit against St. Jude Medical and Boston Scientific Corporation for patent infringement last week , alleging that the two companies used various medical technologies without authorization from the regents, who own the patent. Michael Lesh , a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco , invented a device and method for preventing atrial fibrillation , which …
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Michelle Lee faced a barrage of questions and criticism from primarily Republican lawmakers on Tuesday at a U.S. House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee hearing, over reports issued in recent months that took the agency to task over patent quality and employee attendance issues. A federal appeals court has ordered a federal judge in Philadelphia …
A Texas patent troll under the name Corydoras Technologies LLC that first sued Samsung in March is now suing Apple with a series of patents that they acquired from Japan which they claim are “presumed valid.” The company claims that 20 specific models of Apple’s iPhones and iPads infringe on various claims of their patents in respect to cameras, call blocking, FaceTime calling and more. More …
Project Paperless LLC, a strange company whose ownership is shrouded in mystery, wants $1,000 for every person in your company who scans documents and e-mails them. They claim that they have a valid patent covering this ‘‘invention,’’ and while $1,000 per employee is a lot of cabbage, it’s nothing compared to what it would cost you to prove to a court that the patent is as bogus as we all know …
Project Paperless LLC, a strange company whose ownership is shrouded in mystery, wants $1,000 for every person in your company who scans documents and e-mails them. They claim that they have a valid patent covering this ‘‘invention,’’ and while $1,000 per employee is a lot of cabbage, it’s nothing compared to what it would cost you to prove to a court that the patent is as bogus as we all know …