Patents

TiVo Gets Another Patent Win; DISH Network To Take It To Supreme Court - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 11 Apr 2008 02:20 PM PST

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) has won another round… The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C has denied EchoStar (NSDQ: DISH) a rehearing of its loss to…

Updated: Akamai Prevails In Court Over Limelight; $45 Million Award; Limelight Shares Crushed - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 29 Feb 2008 01:07 PM PST

This case has been wending its way through the courts for awhile, but Akamai (NSDQ: AKAM) has won the latest round in its longstanding patent infringement case against rival CDN…

Echostar Loses TiVo Patent Case On Appeal; Must Pay $73 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 31 Jan 2008 01:06 PM PST

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) has gained another major victory in its grueling patent lawsuit against Echostar (NSDQ: DISH) (which is now split into EchoStar Holding and Dish Network): a federal appeals…

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Patent Office Upholds TiVo’s ‘Time Warp’ Patent; EchoStar’s Legal Appeal Continues - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 29 Nov 2007 01:29 PM PST

In a setback to satellite operator Echostar, (NSDQ: DISH) the US Patent and Trademark Office has upheld the validity of TiVo’s (NSDQ: TIVO) “Time Warp” patent, which covers the simultaneous…

Patent Firm Acacia Loses Case Against Microsoft; More To Come? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 16 Nov 2007 03:53 PM PST

The notorious patent holding company Acacia Research, which first came to light in the digital media industry for claiming broad patents in the streaming media field, has lost first of…

EchoStar: Spinoff Plans; Sling Financials; Slowing Economy Affecting Growth - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 12 Nov 2007 11:45 AM PST

Details are emerging on EchoStar’s (NSDQ: DISH) proposed spinoff of its technology and infrastructure business, including the recently acquired Sling Media, whose financials are available for the first time. From…

Microsoft and Eolas Settle IE Patent Dispute - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 30 Aug 2007 01:07 PM PST

Microsoft and Eolas have settled their high-profile patent dispute over technology in Internet Explorer, reports Todd Bishop at SeattlePI. Microsoft was previously hit with a judgment of about $565 million…

Federal Judge Throws Out MP3 Patent Ruling Against Microsoft; Overturns $1.5 Billion Ruling - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 06 Aug 2007 05:53 PM PST

The complex case where Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) was ordered earlier this year to pay $1.5 billion in an Alcatel-Lucent (EPA:ALU) MP3 patent dispute, has been overturned, and U.S. District Judge…

Limelight Wins Prelim Ruling Against Akamai on Patent Lawsuit - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 02 Jul 2007 12:07 PM PST

The two big media CDNs Akamai and Limelight, both locked in an ugly patent lawsuit, have finally seen some preliminary movement in the case: the judge in U.S. District Court…

Yahoo Launchcast Wins Sony BMG Copyright Suit; IFPI Strikes Cross-Border Digital Music Deals - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Sat 28 Apr 2007 01:53 PM PST

After six years of litigation, a federal jury found that Yahoo’s online music service Launchcast is not liable to Sony BMG Music Entertainment for copyright infringement, Billboard Biz reported. Sony,…

Google Apologizes For Copying Sohu Typing Methods; Google, Baidu Battle Asian Ghost Sites - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 09 Apr 2007 05:26 AM PST

Google has admitted to using Chinese portal Sohu’s typing technology in latest product, according to Reuters. Google admitted its method had been built “leveraging some non-Google database resources” and, in…

In A Sea Of Content, Hardly A Drop Will Be Digitized: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Sat 10 Mar 2007 07:22 PM PST

Ambitious and monumental projects ranging from the Library of Congress mission to create a world digital library to IBM’s undertaking to digitize the Vatican Library’s archives, or Google’s mission to…

Patent Site LegalForce Launches With Seed Funding Of $250,000 - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 05 Mar 2007 02:52 PM PST

LegalForce, an online patent marketplace that mixes aspects of a social network and video sharing site, launched this week with $250,000 in seed funding, Venturebeat reported. The site is trying…

Microsoft Did Not Violate MP3 Patent: Federal Judge - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 05 Mar 2007 06:00 AM PST

A week after Microsoft was ordered to pay $1.5 billion in an Alcatel-Lucent MP3 patent dispute, a federal judge has ruled that it did not violate a patent at the…

ASCAP Lawsuit Seeks To Classify Music Downloads As ‘Public Performance’ - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 01 Mar 2007 02:21 PM PST

A federal court in New York will decide the question of whether downloading a song constitutes a “public performance” of a composition in response to a lawsuit brought by music…

Nokia-Qualcomm Patent Brawl Suspended - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 28 Feb 2007 04:49 PM PST

Just to keep up to date on the “Qualcomm vs Nokia” battle, CNet notes that the US investigation into Qualcomm’s claims that Nokia is infringing its patents—due to begin in…

Microsoft Ordered to Pay $1.52 Billion To Alcatel-Lucent On MP3 Patent Case; Can Appeal - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 22 Feb 2007 03:41 PM PST

In a very complex case, Microsoft has been ordered to pay a big amount (though relatively small for them), $1.52 billion, for infringing on two Alcatel-Lucent patents involving MP3 audio…

Lycos Patent Lawsuit Threatens Use of Suggestive Search - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 15 Jan 2007 02:51 PM PST

Another patent saga begins ... Lycos is suing TiVo, Netflix and Blockbuster over the way those companies provide recommendations to customers for movies or television shows, Bloomberg reports. Lycos owns…

Defunct Online VOD Company Intertainer Sues Apple, Google And Napster Over Patent - 4 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 02 Jan 2007 09:13 PM PST

Those of us who covered digital media and entertainment way back are very familiar with Intertainer, the high-profile movie download company that fizzled along with so many other companies too…

Earnings: Creative Looks for More Royalties from Zen Patent After Apple Deal - 0 Comments
Posted By Jonathan Berr - Thu 02 Nov 2006 12:27 PM PST

Creative Technology, which recently won a $100 million licensing deal from Apple for the Zen patent for the user interface that scrolls through screens on devices, is eager for more…

@ ONA-ASNE: Real-Time News - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 05 Oct 2006 09:12 PM PST

The ONA-ASNE workshop panel on real-time news highlighted the varying impact of online on traditional newsrooms—and bottomlines. At the Washington Post and the New York Times Company, represented by Rajiv…

Apple Will Pay Creative $100 Million To Settle Patent Disputes - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 23 Aug 2006 02:10 PM PST

The patent system at work ... Apple gives in to Creative Technology’s prior claim, agreeing to pay $100 million for a paid-up license to use Creative’s Zen patent for the…

Court Rules EchoStar DVRs Infringe On TiVo Patents Order To Disconnect Is Stayed - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 20 Aug 2006 07:09 PM PST

EchoStar Communications came close to the forced disconnection of at least 3 million DVRs Friday, saved for the time being by an temporary injunction. The flurry of week’s end activity…

Podbridge Founder Gets Patent For Dynamic Ad Time-Shifting Technology - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 28 Jul 2006 06:08 AM PST

Podbridge founder and CEO Murgesh Navar has been granted a patent for cable network-based technology that delivers locally stored multimedia on the fly to provide fresh ads. For instance, usually…

Effects Of Friendster Patent Win Yet to be Seen; Company Weighs Options - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 27 Jul 2006 10:09 AM PST

Friendster may finally have found an advantage in the increasingly competitive social media sector—the one dominated by other companies as pioneer Friendster flailed. Last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark…