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A retired Georgia Institute of Technology professor has sued Lyft for patent infringement, Reuters reports. The professor, Stephen Dickerson, filed his complaint with the New York Southern District Court on Monday through his company RideApp, and it claims that Lyft’s business model infringes on Dickerson’s ride-sharing patent, which he filed for in 2001. The patent […]
Enlarge / The Nikola One in December 2016. (credit: NMC) On Tuesday, zero-emissions truck startup Nikola Motor Company sued Tesla for allegedly infringing on its design patents. Nikola says that Tesla’s Semi, which was revealed in November 2017, too closely resembles its Nikola One, a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle that was revealed in December 2016. (Somewhere, […]
Though TiVo and Comcast just wrapped up a round of patent infringement litigation, TiVo’s looking for another go. Yesterday, it filed lawsuits in California and Massachusetts alleging that Comcast’s X1 set-top boxes are infringing on no less than eight of its patents. “Through decades-long investment in research and development, Rovi has created innovations that delight […]
(Reuters) — Qualcomm Inc said on Thursday it filed three new patent infringement complaints against Apple Inc (AAPL.O), saying there were 16 more of its patents that Apple was using in its iPhones. The new complaints represent the latest development in a long-standing dispute and follows Apple’s countersuit on Wednesday against Qualcomm, which alleged that […]
Thomson Reuters The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe sued Amazon and Microsoft for patent infringement. The lawsuit is part of a legal gambit in which the tribe acquired patents from SRC Labs, and then invoked its right to sovereign immunity, which could shield SRC and the tribe from counter-challenges. One federal judge invalidated a similar deal […]
Apple gets sued for patent infringement dozens of times each year, mostly by little-known shell companies with no products—the types of companies often derided as “patent trolls.” But the newest lawsuit seeking royalty payments from iPad sales is likely a first: the recently created plaintiff, MEC Resources LLC, is wholly owned by a Native American tribe. The case had […]
A video-on-demand streaming service that enables the filtering of objectionable content to make it family friendly is breaking US copyright law, a federal appeals court ruled. The service, VidAngel, buys movie discs and decrypts and rips them. It then streams versions that allow customers to filter out nudity, profanity, and violence. In doing so, it breached […]
Enlarge (credit: David Slater / Naruto) On Wednesday, a federal appeals court will embark on a legal safari of sorts: animal rights activists, representing an Indonesian monkey named Naruto, are set to argue to the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals that their monkey client should be recognized as the lawful owner of […]
Enlarge (credit: Juisir) A cold-press juicer maker called Juicero found itself in the center of a lot of unwanted attention this week when Bloomberg reporters discovered that they could press juice out of the company’s proprietary juice bags with their bare hands—without the help of the accompanying $ 400 appliance. But Juicero apparently still wants […]
Published time: 21 Apr, 2017 11:26 A Shanghai court has ordered German sportswear company Puma to pay 2.9 million yuan ($ 421,340) for infringing the goat’s head logo of a Chinese wool producing company. According to the Shanghai Daily, the court ruled Puma copied the image created especially for the Year of Goat in 2015 […]
