$440 million patent battle<\/strong><\/p>\nA U.S. appeals court has upheld a $440 million judgment against Apple by \u201cpatent troll\u201d VirnetX, an intellectual property licensing firm which has been battling Apple for years. VirnetX is sometimes labelled a \u201cpatent troll\u201d because it holds extensive patent portfolios, but does not make a product. Instead, its income comes from licensing out its technology or suing large companies which unlawfully use its intellectual property.\u00a0Other companies it has fought include Microsoft, Cisco, Avaya, and Siemens.<\/p>\n
Qualcomm’s patent infringement suit against Apple not tenable says German Court<\/strong><\/p>\nA patent lawsuit filed by Qualcomm Inc against Apple Inc was thrown out by a German court\u00a0last week. The regional court in the city of Mannheim dismissed the Qualcomm suit as groundless in an initial verbal decision, saying the patent in question was not violated by the installation of its chips in Apple\u2019s smartphones. Qualcomm has stated that it would appeal after winning a separate case before a court in Munich in December that enabled it to enforce a ban on the sale of older iPhones in Germany.<\/p>\n
Oakley alleges design patent infringement<\/strong><\/p>\nSports apparel brand Oakley is reportedly suing a Colorado-based\u00a0safety glass manufacturer Third Coast Products for design infringement of its glasses sold under the name of Luxottica. The\u00a0Colorado-based\u00a0company has been accused of infringing Oakley\u2019s design patent through the sale of iLumen8 UV Safety Glasses.<\/p>\n
Orexo wins patent infringement battle against Actavis<\/strong><\/p>\nIn a patent infringement suit between Orexo, a company specializing in the manufacture of pharmaceutical drugs, and Actavis,<\/strong> the United States District Court for the District of Delaware passed a non\u2013appealable judgement indicating active infringement of the Orexo\u2019s Patent No. – 8,940,330. Previously, in September 2018, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Court, had authenticated the patent as being valid. Orexo had instituted two other law suits, involving the same drug \u201cZubsolv\u201d against Actavis charging the company of infringing two of its patents, namely – U.S. Patent Nos. 9,259,421 and 9,439,900. Both these suits have now been withdrawn after the current judgment.<\/p>\nCompiled by Vibha Amarnath & Gaurav Mishra<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This post presents an analysis of Indian patent statistics, notable inventions, and patent agent examination results. It further covers major IP conferences and recent patent infringement news, compiled by BananaIP Counsels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[183,342,2787,5,88,8566,3146,16],"class_list":["post-45230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","category-patents","tag-bananaip-counsels","tag-design-patents","tag-indian-patent-statistics","tag-intellectual-property","tag-interesting-inventions","tag-ip-conferences","tag-patent-agent-examination","tag-patent-infringement-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137952,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45230\/revisions\/137952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}