Symantec ordered to pay $21.8 million in damages for patent infringement
Symantec was ordered to pay US$17 million ($A21.8 million) in damages last week after a federal jury in Delaware found it had violated two patents owned by Intellectual Ventures, a major patent licensing company based in the US. The damages award was far less than the US$298 million (A$382.25 million) Intellectual Ventures had been seeking. The jury also cleared Symantec of infringing a third patent.
BrainStorm Receives Notice of Allowance for its NurOwn™ Technology Platform from Israel’s Patent Office
BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc., a leading developer of adult stem cell technologies for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced that it has received a Notice of Allowance from Israel’s Patent Office for its patent application titled “Isolated Population of Cells, Methods of Generating Same, and Uses Thereof in the Treatment of CNS Diseases.”
Qualcomm to pay China $1 billion in antitrust settlement: report
Qualcomm is expected to pay a record fine of $1 billion to the Chinese government in order to end a 14-month antitrust probe, according to reports. The US chip maker has held recent talks with Chinese investigators to come to a settlement of the dispute, in which China alleges Qualcomm’s licensing practices are anti-competitive.
Patent awarded to Graphenea for large area graphene transfer process
Spanish company Graphenea has won its first patent for a method it has developed to transfer large areas of graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) from a metal foil to an insulating substrate. The company claims that, as CVD is the most promising way of growing large, high quality graphene sheets, this could be a key patent in the graphene industry.
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30 Airlines sued over Lightning-detection Patent
Avioniqs, a Tyler-based company holding a patent for a lightning detection system filed lawsuits against 30 airline companies Friday, alleging that the companies were infringing on its patent. The company said it held a July 1996 patent for a “Lightning Locating System” and that the airlines were using equipment that infringed on that patent.
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MicroBiome Therapeutics Receives Notice Of Allowance For U.S. Patent Covering Glyceollin As A Treatment For Diabetes And Obesity
MicroBiome TherapeuticsTM LLC, today reported that the USPTO has issued a notice of allowance for the company’s patent application covering the use of glyceollin to treat diabetes and obesity. MBT is investigating glyceollins for the treatment of metabolic disorders, including diabetes and obesity, as well as their potential role in modulating the gastrointestinal microbiome.
Jury awards Sprint $27.6 million in patent dispute with Comcast
A federal jury awarded Sprint $27.6 million Friday in a patent infringement lawsuit against Comcast. The verdict came at the end of a week of trial and deliberation in U.S. District Court in Delaware. Sprint had sued in 2012, saying Comcast violated two patents Sprint had on fiber-optic SONET technology, attorney Trent Webb said.
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LightwaveRF Submits Patent Application For Smart Window
Internet-of-things technology company LightwaveRF PLC on Monday said it has submitted a patent application for its Smart Windows product. The Smart Windows product integrates a smart switch into windows, allowing users to manage both heat control and security alerts.
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Creative Medical Health Files Patent On Multiple Sclerosis Stem Cell Therapy
Creative Medical Health announced today filing of intellectual property covering the utilization of its proprietary mesenchymal stem cell-based product for treatment for autoimmune diseases, with multiple sclerosis being the first disease in which the product will be clinically assessed. The patent covers various modifications and cell types that are used to specifically stop the immunological processes that cause inflammation in the nervous system, which leads to the pathology seen in multiple sclerosis.
Venus Remedies gets product patent grant for Vancoplus
Venus Remedies has received product patent grant from Indian Patent Office (IPO) for its unique research product, Vancoplus. Vancoplus is a novel antibiotic adjuvant entity highly effective against notorious (MRSA) strain and multi-drug resistant microbes primarily responsible for causing infections such as Meningitis, Pneumonia, Typhoid, Septicemia, Urinary Tract Infection, Skin infections and Staphylococcal Endocarditis.
CanCooker’s signature product now patented
Seth McGinn of Fremont, Nebraska, said Thursday his CanCooker has received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The device, is a portable convection oven that steam-cooks a meal in an hour. McGinn said he spent seven years developing and testing the cooker and submitting the patent information.
