The suits have been filed in U.N District Court of Northern District of Illinois, feature the assertion of single patent technique to combat online software privacy by protecting executable computer program from unauthorized use. U.S. Patent No. 6330549: The functionality of “protected shareware” is controlled by digitally signed messaging protocol. Protective code within the [...]
The Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) decision to uphold the unpatentability of several claims of a patent owned by Affinity Labs of Texas, LLC (“Affinity”). An Examiner initially found the claims to be unpatentable during two inter partes reexaminations and an ex parte reexamination of Affinity’s patent. Apple and [...]
A single court in rural East Texas has become the site of one of the biggest battles in Silicon Valley. Tech giants like Intel and Apple say the Eastern District of Texas, within the federal 5th Circuit, has become a haven for frivolous patent lawsuits, with favorable rulings often handed down to litigants that [...]
