Prominent IP Updates on Feb 16, 2015

PGS Wins Patent Dispute with EMGS

Petroleum Geo-Services ASA today announces that Oslo District Court in its judgment of 13 February 2015 ruled in favor of PGS in the lawsuit filed by ElectroMagnetic GeoServices ASA (‘EMGS’) against PGS for patent infringement relating to PGS’ Towed Streamer EM technology. The court found that EMGS’ patent NO 324 454 is invalid and that PGS’ Towed Streamer EM system therefore does not infringe the EMGS Patent.

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Samsung forced to pay $15m over Bluetooth patent infringement

Samsung has been ordered to pay $15.7 million (£10.2m) in damages after being found guilty of Bluetooth patent infringement. The decision to declare Samsung liable for reparations payments to Rembrandt Wireless Technologies came from a Harrison County, USA, federal jury last Friday.

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VG Life Sciences Secures Patent For Cell-Protective IBD Treatment

VG Life Sciences, a biotechnology company committed to developing therapies for infectious and autoimmune diseases, recently announced that the USPTO has issued the company a Patent No. 8906846 covering a new method to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) via administrating a CLIP-inducing agent.

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Apple Details Revolutionary New iPhone Camera

If this recent patent filed by Apple, future iPhones and similar devices could contain cameras unlike any before seen on a smartphone, including technologies as radical as multiple zooming lens elements, wobbling mirrors and even a built in periscope.

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Suven Life Sciences gets new patents in four countries

Hyderabad-based bio-pharmaceutical company Suven Life Sciences Limited today said it secured patents in four countries to one of their new chemical entity (NCE) targeted for treating degenerative brain diseases through a new mechanism of action.

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Discovery to Product aids university in commercializing patents

In 2013, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the nonprofit patent and licensing organization for UW, helped with the issuing of 160 patents, according to a UW statement. Yet the organization ranked 38th in how well it commercializes those patents, according to Association of University Technology Managers data gathered by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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Crakmedia Obtains Judgment that Essociate’s Affiliate Marketing Patent is Invalid

Crakmedia, announced that it won a judgment in a hard-fought patent infringement case that was filed against the company last year by Plaintiff Essociate, Inc. Essociate owns US 6,804,660, that describes a method and system for configuring an existing affiliate network to receive “virtual affiliates” from an affiliate pooling network.

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