Prominent IP Updates on April 28, 2016

#Comba Telecom Scores Victory against #Commscope in Antenna Technology #Patent Infringement Dispute

Comba Telecom Systems Holdings Limited, has announced the results of litigation brought against it by Commscope Holding Company Inc. and its subsidiary Andrew LLC in Brazil. The courts have ruled in favor of Comba Telecom and rejected the RET (“Remote Electrical Tilt”) antenna technology patent infringement lawsuit.

#Nintendo 3DS $30.2million #patent infringement ruling quashed

A US court has overturned a ruling that saw #Nintendo fined $30.2 million in a #patent infringement dispute centring on 3D technology. In a decision handed down on Sunday, April 24, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York overturned a ruling that it originally handed down in 2013.

The dispute, between #Nintendo and #Tomita Technologies, began in 2011 and centred on Nintendo’s 3DS console. Tomita and its owner Seijiro Tomita claimed the 3DS infringed one of its inventions which protects a way of displaying 3D images without the need for 3D glasses. The patent covering the invention, which Nintendo was deemed to have infringed, was US 741,766,4 B2.

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