In April of 2006, an Eastern District of Texas jury awarded TiVo $73.9 Million in damages for EchoStar’s infringement of several claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,233,389. The ‘389 patent covers digital video recorder (“DVR”) technology that covers time shifting both for previously recorded programs and for programs that are…
February 1, 2008. The Los Angeles, California district court issued summary judgment of invalidity of plaintiff David Sitrick’s asserted claims from his two U.S. patents (5,553,864 and 6,425,825) against DreamWorks and Warner Brothers. The patents claim the replacement of images and voices into pre-existing movies and video games. The District…
Patents, trademarks and copyrights and counterfeiting will be at the forefront at the WIPO’s Fourth Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy that meets in Dubai from February 3-5, 2008. The meeting is to focus on the following key themes: Health and Safety Risks Counterfeit Products Pose to Consumers; Raising…
In a patent infringement lawsuit, medical device maker TriMed, Inc. had accused Stryker Corporation, a competing medical equipment manufacturer of devices that mend broken bones, of infringing on its utility patent related to an implantable wrist-fracture treatment medical device. The District Court in Los Angeles, California had adopted Stryker’s proposed…