Patents

How Frisky is the Lawsuit Against RNWK? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 02 Jul 2003 09:07 AM PST

The lawsuit by Friskit against RealNetworks may prove to be a disaster for the streaming giant if it is proven: it might be barred from using the technology, according to…

Friskit Claims Patent Infringement Against RealNetworks - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 01 Jul 2003 02:08 AM PST

(free registration required): Friskit, a cool multi-media search and streaming tool which I have been using for almost three years now, is suing RealNetworks and its subsidiary Listen.com for patent…

Online Newspaper Patent Suit Dropped - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 17 Jun 2003 02:07 PM PST

A Los Altos, Calif., inventor has withdrawn a patent infringement lawsuit against a dozen small newspapers...Paul Heckel alleged in the suit, filed in January, that the papers’ websites infringed patents…

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Siemens, Mobileway Team to Pay - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 15 May 2003 09:05 AM PST

Siemens and Mobileway have intensified their collaboration with the launch of ‘Over-The-Air’ (OTA) micro payment solution, based on premium SMS(1). This jointly patented solution renders mobile subscribers the ease to…

Movielink Tagged With Patent Suit - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 10 Apr 2003 03:04 PM PST

Online movie subscription site Movielink, a joint venture of five Hollywood movie studios, is being sued for patent infringement by USA Video Technology, a video technology company, in a case…

Palm Sued for Wireless Multiplayer Gaming Patent - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 31 Mar 2003 12:03 PM PST

Palm has been hit with a law suit claiming that the ability of its PDAs to network wirelessly with other such devices on an ad hoc basis, in turn allowing…

Listening to Woodstock: A story - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 27 Feb 2003 06:02 AM PST

Listening to Woodstock: A story on a new digital media software company, Woodstock Systems, which has just releasec its Woodstock Personal Digital Server (PDS) technology. The company describes the Woodstock…

Newspapers Sued for Violating Abstracting Technology Patent - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 26 Feb 2003 02:03 AM PST

You better believe it: if you think you were developing a subscription service and writing a “tease” abstract for each story, you may be in trouble. A dozen small newspapers…

Wireless Companies Get Interesting Patents - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 14 Jan 2003 05:01 AM PST

Two wireless companies AvantGo (in the process of being acquired by Sybase) and Vindigo have received two separate patents related to the delivery of wireless content/data services. Avantgo’s patent will…

Liquid Audio Sues InfoSplit - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 02 Jul 2002 08:07 AM PST

Online music company Liquid Audio (Nasdaq: LQID) has sued geo-targeting company InfoSplit for using for infringing on its patent. The patent in question is #6,151,631: “Territorial Determination of Remote Computer…

Digimarc Gets Four Patents - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 01 Jul 2002 03:08 AM PST

Digimarc, the content-security and watermarking company, has received four new patents. “U.S. Patent Number 6,400,827 was issued last month by the U.S. Patent Office and covers techniques that enable a…