So, too, is the risk of overlap: a recent study by M-CAM, a consultancy which studies intellectual property, found that more than 30% of patents make duplicate claims, raising questions about their validity.
As is typical with patents, the patent claims appear to overlap in places, with both companies saying they have patents on the technique of boosting chemical pathways in yeast that produce isobutanol.
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The number of duplicate claims among patents is far too high.
Among other things, these battles lead to an arms race, where every company which can afford to do so will invest in its own patent weaponry, so that it can defend itself from claims by having patents of their own to assert in counterclaims.
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The ITC's decision narrowed an earlier finding that HTC was infringing multiple claims of two separate patents.
In August, a jury found that Amazon infringed only one of the three patents, and that the asserted claims off the infringed patent were invalid.
Rambus claims Infineon is violating its patents on two kinds of computer memory, known as synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), and Double-Data Rate DRAM (DDR).
As the WSJ notes, the revised complaint lists specific products and services it claims are in violation of Interval patents.
The DVD Copy Control Association claims the 321 software infringes its patents.
In what would appear to be the first step towards complying with the order to license its standards-essential patents, Google has dropped some of its claims against Microsoft.
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Google alleges its rival's claims are based on "bogus patents".
Since 1995 Farrell has sued Respironics for infringing four patents, but he lost three of the claims on summary judgment in the U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh, crosstown from Respironics headquarters.
The judge found in favor of Samsung regarding one patent in his claim construction order, however, and now Apple has dropped that patent from the proceedings, along with claims from two of its other patents as well.
Samsung argued that Apple's claims are invalid due to previously registered patents relating to design elements and functionality.
Mr. Yang and Ms. Wang were the latest witnesses Samsung called as it attempts to both prove that Apple infringed its patents and defend against the Cupertino company's claims that it had done the same.
The complaint filed yesterday in Washington claims Apple is infringing on three wireless technology patents, Bloomberg reports.
Though the Korean electronics company is rarely mentioned as a patent powerhouse, it claims 23% of the pool of LTE patents that Jefferies analyzed.
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Earlier, Compaq had launched suits claiming infringement of 13 patents (nine of which actually belong to Intel, Trigem claims).
Apple claims that South Korea's Samsung has infringed its patents with the Galaxy line of smartphones and tablet computers.
The term "patent troll" describes firms that acquire patents so that they can later extract settlements from companies on infringement claims.
These non-practicing entities, companies with no operations, and contingency lawyers, would acquire patents and then go out and extort rich licenses from large corporations with legal claims, usually in Eastern Texas.
But at least Amster now claims his company will never launch a lawsuit to enforce one of its patents.
The six-year-old suit claims Ebay's "Buy It Now" feature infringes on MercExchange's patents.
Thus did Judge Richard Posner, in the recent Apple and Motorola case, deplore the misuse of patents governing smartphones and, in no uncertain terms, chastise both sides as he dismissed their respective claims.
According to Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents, after Samsung asked to add the latest iPads, iPhones and iPod touches to its list of claims and the court approved the addition of the iPhone 5, Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 10.1, Apple is trying to put six more devices on the list.
This new agreement, made public Friday afternoon, amounts to a full and final settlement of all claims against RIM, as well as a perpetual, fully-paid up license for the disputed patents.
Intellectual Ventures, which has assembled a massive portfolio of patents, mostly through purchase by its well funded backers, has created a huge toll booth that, despite claims of its management, inhibits rather than supports innovation.
In 2010, U.S.-based companies recaptured the lead for the total number of U.S. patents granted after falling behind foreign companies for the previous two years, according to rankings released yesterday by IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, a division of Fairview Research, of global companies awarded the most U.S. patents in 2010.
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