BTG hits Amazon, Netflix and others with patent suit
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LONDON - BTG PLC, a London-based firm that focuses on intellectual property and technology commercialization, said Wednesday that it has filed suit against Amazon.com Inc., Barnesandnoble.com LLC and two other Internet companies for infringing on patents related to the tracking of users on the Web.
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Honeywell on Wednesday announced that it has filed suit against Apple and 33 other companies for alleged patent infringement over a technology that &quot;increases the brightness of images and that reduces the appearance of certain interference effects on a
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Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. filed one joint and several separate lawsuits on Monday against companies and individuals accusing them variously of trying to defraud consumers by imitating Amazon and Microsoft, the companies said Tuesday.
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Amazon.com Inc. denies it violated IBM Corp. patents in building its massive retail Web site, and alleges instead that IBM infringed on Amazon's technology to beef up its own offerings.
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EchoStar Communications Corp  infringed a TiVo Inc patent in building digital video recorders  and must pay nearly $74 million in damages, a court that  specializes in patent cases ruled on Thursday.
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IT industry leaders Amazon.com and Microsoft said Tuesday that they have joined forces to file several lawsuits targeting individuals accused of carrying out Internet crimes such as spamming, phishing and e-mail address spoofing.
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In a symbolic victory for advocates of patent reform, a part-time motion-capture actor who has appeared - albeit masked by CGI animation - in the Lord of the Rings trilogy of films, has succeeded in striking down Amazon's patent claim of having invented the single-click purchase procedure.
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Company files new lawsuits against cybersquatters in the U.K. and the U.S., charging violation of intellectual property law.
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Video rental chain Blockbuster Inc.  said on Wednesday it settled a patent dispute with rival Netflix Inc.  that challenged Blockbuster's entry into online DVD rental, but it signaled that the new business was taking a toll on its finances.
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IP defences tested GraphOn, the Santa Cruz, CA software maker has filed a lawsuit against Juniper Networks, alleging infringement of three patents related to firewall technology.â¦
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Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N has sued   Boston Scientific Corp.BSX.N and Abbott Laboratories Inc.   ABT.N, seeking at least $5.5 billion in damages related to   J&J's failed bid for medical device maker Guidant Corp.
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Honeywell has issued lawsuits against 34 companies, including Dell, Apple, Sony and Toshiba alleging LCD panels used in their products infringe a 1992 patent the company holds.
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A lawsuit filed this week claims that Google, Yahoo, AOL, Amazon.com, Borders and IAC/InteractiveCorp violated a patent for an automatic message routing system held by Polaris IP.
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SanDisk&#160;is suing 25 companies, including South Korean giant LG Electronics for allegedly infringing patents used in removable flash storage products including MP3 players and USB flash drives.
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trademark infringement suit filed against Google by Geico, the Auto Insurer owned by Berkshire Hathaway. In the trial, which started on Monday, Geico gave a plea that the Google&#39;s policy of allowing competitors
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. today said they have filed one joint and several separate lawsuits against companies and individuals accusing them of trying to defraud
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SanDisk&#160;is suing 25 companies, including South Korean giant LG Electronics for allegedly infringing patents used in removable flash storage products including MP3 players and USB flash drives.The Milpitas, California, chip maker has also filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), asking to have defendants in the court cases barred from importing products into the U.S.The company filed two lawsuits in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin, one alleging the infringement of five patents in the ITC complaint, and another one including two additional patents not involved in the ITC action.The court and ITC complaints could affect the prices and availability of products made by companies targeted in the suit if SanDisk wins and the companies are barred from importing products into the U.S.The suit also covers makers of CompactFlash cards, multimedia cards, and other removable flash storage products used in digital cameras, mobile phones, and other gadgets, and includes companies from around the world, such as Japan&#39;s Buffalo, Acer affiliate Apacer Technology&#160;of Taiwan, and Kingston Technology&#160;of California.