Category: Microsoft
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An interview with IP monetization âgodfatherâ Marshall Phelps
âIf you let them, patents can permit people to do so many things, and they can pay you for the privilege,â Marshall Phelps recently told ip fray in an exclusive interview.
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Lose three validity battles, win the infringement war? Microsoftâs CNIPA record against Newmanâs GUI patent
A long-running Chinese touchscreen patent dispute between Newman Infinite and Microsoft has now reached China’s Supreme People’s Court, after the latter failed in four patent invalidation attempts. But the record is less one-sided than it currently appears to be.
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PTAB abused discretion by staying reexamination that favored patentee, Proxense tells Federal Circuit
Licensing firm Proxense has appealed a PTAB decision to stay a reexamination that was on the verge of finding patentability and instead found such findings to be moot, allegedly breaching the APA.
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An interview with Proxense CEO John GiobbiÂ
âLitigation has been the path weâve had to take because the tech giants today just arenât willing to license patents that they infringe unless you sue them and take them to the mat,â Mr. Giobbi told ip fray about the former operating company (now patent assertion entity) in an exclusive interview.
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Google sued in Unified Patent Court by NPE Eyesmatch
NPE Eyesmatch has sued Google in the Unified Patent Courtâs Mannheim Local Division over the alleged infringement of a patent closely related to another it previously enforced against Apple, NVIDIA, Samsung, and Microsoft.
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Amazon no longer defends cloud customers against video patent infringement claims, arguing it would otherwise have to raise prices
The world’s largest cloud provider offers various multimedia-specific services to its customers. It blames its new liability disclaimer on video patent holders’ royalty demands.
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SAP files pre-emptive strike in cloud patent infringement campaign that targeted Microsoft, now targeting Amazon: Central District of California
SAP has filed a declaratory judgment of non-infringement action of several of software company Corent Technologyâs patents in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, after the former enforced said patents against both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. The latter settled in December.
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U.S. judge denies Microsoft motion to postpone ParTec patent trial involving OpenAI supercomputer: showdown in Texas in June, ParTec v. NVIDIA in UPC in February
German supercomputer company ParTec sued Microsoft in the Eastern District of Texas in a first step, and NVIDIA in the Unified Patent Court a little later.
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USPTO upholds core Proxense patent in Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, Google invalidation cases
Biometrics firm Proxense has bagged a key win in ongoing big tech patent litigation, after the United States Patent & Trademark Office upheld a key patent following a review requested by Samsung.