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GM Sues Hyundai for Allegedly Poaching Exec to Access Self-Driving Car Secrets
General Motors Co. accused Hyundai Motor Co.'s U.S. unit of poaching one of its top safety executives so it could gain access to trade secrets for self-driving vehicles and electric cars. Brian ...
Verisk Must Pay $125M to EagleView in Patent Infringement Verdict
A New Jersey recently ordered insurance data services firm Verisk to pay $125 million to aerial imaging firm EagleView for lost profits linked to Verisk infringing on various EagleView patents. The ...
BlackBerry Accuses Twitter of Patent Infringement
BlackBerry Ltd on Wednesday filed a patent infringement lawsuit accusing Twitter Inc of illegally using technology in its mobile messaging applications that had been developed by the former ...
Gilead Wins as Judge Reverses Record $2.54B Hepatitis C Drug Patent Verdict
A federal judge in Delaware has overturned a jury's verdict requiring Gilead Sciences Inc. to pay a record $2.54 billion because its hepatitis C drugs Sovaldi and Harvoni infringed a patent held by ...
SCOTUS Tightens Laws on Where Patent Lawsuits Can be Filed
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday tightened rules for where patent lawsuits can be filed in a decision that may make it harder for so-called patent "trolls" to launch sometimes dodgy patent cases in ...
Apple’s Patent Infringement Award From Samsung Hit With SCOTUS Setback
The U.S. Supreme Court told a lower court to take another look at a $399 million award won by Apple Inc. from rival Samsung Electronics Co. for copying the design of the iPhone. The unanimous ...
Apple Ordered to Pay Nearly $533M in iTunes Patent Infringement Verdict
Apple Inc has been ordered to pay $532.9 million after a federal jury in Texas found that its iTunes software infringed three patents owned by patent licensing firm Smartflash LLC. Though Smartflash ...
Seacrest’s Typo Probably Infringing on BlackBerry Patent, Judge Says
BlackBerry Ltd. won a court order barring Ryan Seacrest's Typo Products LLC from selling a $99 iPhone case after convincing a judge that Typo is probably infringing its patents. U.S. District Judge ...