Category: United States
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Crocs hits retail rival’s clog line with trade dress, design, utility patent claims
Crocs is suing retail rival Five Below over its clog-and-charm products, asserting Classic Clog trade dress, a Saru design patent and three Jibbitz utility patents. The complaint seeks injunctive relief, damages, and a disgorgement of profits.
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Honeywell Aerospace enforces automation patents against EV makers Rivian and Lucid
The newly independent company completed its spin-off from major patent holder Honeywell International in June.
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NEC sues Anker’s eufy brand over six more camera patents in East Texas, widening a two-year fight
NEC has filed a fresh patent suit against Anker’s smart home brand in East Texas, adding six new camera surveillance patents to an already tense two-year dispute.
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Nike, lululemon settle patent fight over Mirror Home Gym technology
Nike and lululemon have ended their four-year patent fight over the latter’s Mirror Home Gym, although there is no patent licensing agreement in sight.
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iPhone Duo: two long-running Apple patent families and a Liechtenstein priority filing
Apple’s iPhone Duo arrives with a long paper trail: a 2011 patent naming CEO John Ternus as inventor, a 2015 family whose foldable claims issued five months before launch, and an iPhone Duo trademark filed first in Liechtenstein in March.
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SIM IP acquires QinetiQ cross-domain security patent portfolio rooted in UK defense research
SIM IP has acquired eight QinetiQ patent families covering cross-domain security, the technology deciding whether external data can enter trusted networks, with which it plans to launch an open licensing program.
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Malikie Innovations dismisses Hyundai suit, pointing to probable Avanci Wi-Fi 6 license
Earlier, Avanci announced the signing of three as-yet-undisclosed automotive companies as licensees to its Wi-Fi 6 Vehicles program.
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Skysong sues Fortinet, CrowdStrike at UPC over shared AI vulnerability-scoring patent
The Arizona State University patent-licensing arm filed both cases on the same day, pulling the operators of the widely used Exploit Prediction Scoring System into the Fortinet suit and using CrowdStrike’s EU cloud plans to add threatened-infringement claims, as its parallel Texas cases near trial.
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UPC Munich LD grants DivX injunction against Netflix streaming software, departing from EPO Opposition Division’s preliminary view
The Munich LD’s second panel upheld DivX’s patent as granted and enjoined Netflix’s streaming software across 18 UPC countries.
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AST-sold patents on the loose again as Samsung faces Texas DRAM complaint
A number of U.S. lawsuits have been filed in recent months involving patents sold to PAEs under AST’s “catch-and-release” model.