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NetFlix Sued Over Offline Download Feature
A company out of Delaware called Blackbird Technologies who owns US Patent No. 7,174,362 has filed a lawsuit against NetFlix, the streaming service giant, over their newly added offline download feature. This new feature was added less than two months ago, allowing subscribers to save some of the movie and…
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Apple Files $1B Lawsuit Against iPhone Partner Qualcomm
Apple has filed a $1 Billion lawsuit against Qualcomm, the company who makes iPhone’s baseband processor, claiming that they were pressured to exclusively use Qualcomm’s modem technology exclusively for a five year period ending in 2016. This lawsuit is directly related to the US Federal Trade Commision’s anti-trust filing against…
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Apple Pays $25m to Patent Troll
Apple has paid a “patent troll” $24.9 million to settle a lawsuit alleging infringement over its Siri personal assistant. The payment will be split between the Marathon Patent Group – a business whose stock in trade is exploiting patent licences to file lawsuits against infringing companies – and Rensselaer Polytechnic…
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Uniloc Patent that Cost Microsoft Millions Finally Gets Invalidated
A major patent employed by the patent trolling company, Uniloc, has finally been dismissed. The US Patent No. 5,490,216, which outlines ownership of the concept of “product activation” for software had all of its claims rendered invalid in a ruling by the Patent Trademark and Appeals Board (PTAB). While the sums that Microsoft and…
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Justice Is Served: Patent Troll Ordered To Pay Case Fees In Landmark Ruling
Patent trolling is something that we’ve become only too familiar with in the technology industry. Typically it ends with a patent troll securing victory and lots of undeserved legal revenue, or with the patent troll losing the case and the victim being left to pick up the legal fees. However,…
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Samsung Think Dyson Suck, Countersuing Them For Brand Damage
In August 2013 the UK based vacuum cleaner company Dyson took Samsung to court, accusing them of infringing on their patents. Dyson accused Samsung’s new “MotionSync” range of vacuum cleaners of infringing upon their patents and took Samsung to the UK High Court. Dyson claimed that the steering mechanism on…
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Copyright Troll Caught Seeding Own Torrents
An interesting and quite entertaining Torrent Freak report has revealed that a copyright troll has been actively seeding its own illegally downloadable content on the Pirate Bay. Comcast confirmed that Pirate Bay user Sharkmp4 is directly linked to the infamous patent troll Prenda Law. The Pirate Bay helped Comcast expose…
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Swiftech Halts Sale Of H220 AIO In the USA, Asetek Strikes Again
The Swiftech H220, which we reviewed here, is one of the most critically acclaimed AIO liquid coolers on the market. It is unique from the competition in that it is open loop and it uses custom-grade water cooling components that give it more thermal capability. Yet Asetek thinks it has…
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Rambus Grabs Another Victim, SK Hynix This Time
If there ever was a company that knew how to milk an existence through patents and actually producing very little, then its Rambus. Rambus are notorious throughout the DRAM industry for chasing patents relentlessly and milking big companies for patent royalties for “questionable” patents. Most of the time companies settle…
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Texas Courts Tells Patent Troll That They Cannot Patent Simple Math
A patent troll, Uniloc, who has a long history of suing tech firms has sued Hosting company, Rackspace. Uniloc claims Rackspace allegedly violated their patent by selling Linux-based server systems, but the judge rubbished that claim by dismissing the case, saying that it basically describes a simple math operation. Uniloc…
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