In a recent news there was a lawsuit where Whirlpool of India, a unit of home appliances maker Whirlpool Corp., had sued Videocon for design infringement. Whirlpool of India in June sued Videocon in the high court after it discovered that latter had introduced washing machines with a similar design. Whirlpool of India was [...]
In current financial year a lot of patent litigations have been filed by one or the other company on their rivals. Today with this article, I tend to bring up a patent rivalry that very hot cake in the market nowadays. This is a patent war going on between Google’s Motorola Mobility and Microsoft [...]
This year have been troublesome for Google. Google’s Motorola mobility already lost third patent lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. and now Massachusetts-based Skyhook Wireless have sued Google for infringing nine patents for global positioning detection. The lawsuit targets location-identification technology including “Google Maps” used by Google customers in products such as tablet computers, according to [...]
On 18 th September 2012, Microsoft Corp. announced that they have signed a patent licensing agreement with Reliance In Motion (RIM) that gives RIM access to the latest Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) for certain BlackBerry® devices. The need for a common file system for data sharing across multiple platforms and products have increased [...]
This is a patent war that doesn’t need any introduction. Apple, based in Cupertino, California and Samsung, a South Korean giant in mobile phones have been a biggest enemy in this patent war in IPR sector. Apple sued its component supplier Samsung, alleging in a 38-page federal complaint on 15th April, 2011 in the [...]
Android, a Linux based operating system developed by Google in collaboration with Open Handset Alliance (OHA) has been found to infringe about 17 patents of Apple as well as Microsoft. Android OS is basically used in most of the smartphones and tablets. Android OS have been asked to pay for infringing in some cases [...]
