First Publication Date: 10th June 2010
NTP has filed a patent infringement suit in a US District Court against Apple, Google, Microsoft, Motorola, HTC and LG. It alleged in the suit that the companies are liable for infringing eight of its patents relating to sending emails over wireless networks. This suit is significant because of two reasons:
a. NTP is a patent troll, whose business model revolves around acquiring patents and licensing or enforcing them. It does not have…
This post was first published on May 10, 2010.
Professors at University of California Berkeley are proposing a defensive licensing scheme to fight patent risks in development and use of open source software. In one of my earlier posts, I wrote about the risk of patent infringement with respect to use of open source software and steps to mitigate the same. The model being proposed by Professor Jason Schultz and Professor Jennifer Urban may play an important role in minimizing patent…
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First Publication Date: 20th December 2009
The case related to a patent in respect of the manufacture of new sulphonyl-ureas, salts of those compounds and of anti-diabetic preparation containing such compounds. One of the chemical compounds comprised in the said patent was Tolbutamide, and since 1957 the patent holder had been marketing the same as an anti-diabetic drug in India and all over the world under the trade mark "Rastinon". The patent holder filed an infringement suit against the Respondents…
First Publication Date: 18th December 2009
In this case, the Appellant, Laxmi Dutt Roop Chand, was the patent holder of a patent relating to the process of manufacture of hollow wares, such as 'lotas', 'batwas', 'degchis', 'batlois' and so on. The Appellant filed a patent infringement suit against the Respondents, Nankau and others, claiming that their process of manufacturing hollow wares violates the patents held by the Appellant and prayed for a permanent injunction restraining the Respondents from…
First Publication Date: 3rd December 2009
Global Findability has filed a patent infringement suit in a District Court of Columbia against Summit Entertainment claiming that the Science Fiction movie of Summit violates its US patent relating to Integrated information processing system for geospatial media. According to Global Findability, Summit's use of its patented technology in the movie, Knowing, amounts to patent infringement. Would such an use be infringement in India?
Section 48 of the Indian Patents Act provides that a patent holder…
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