SUFFERN, N.Y., December 31, 2008 — General Patent Corporation (GPC), a leading patent licensing and enforcement firm, announced today that it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against NCSoft Corp. of Austin, TX on behalf of its client, Worlds.com, Inc. (Worlds).
The lawsuit (Case 6:08-cv-00508) was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division.
SUFFERN, N.Y., December 31, 2008 — General Patent Corporation (GPC), a leading patent licensing and enforcement firm, announced today that a settlement has been reached in a patent infringement lawsuit between its client, Leighton Technologies LLC (Leighton), and Oberthur Technologies.
SUFFERN, N.Y., December 23, 2008 - General Patent Corporation (GPC), a leading patent licensing and enforcement firm, announced today on behalf of its client, Digital Technology Licensing LLC (DTL), that it has licensed a key cell phone patent to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. of Osaka, Japan. Matsushita products are sold in the US under the Panasonic brand.
SUFFERN, N.Y., December 22, 2008 - General Patent Corporation (GPC), a leading patent licensing and enforcement firm, announced today on behalf of its client, Digital Technology Licensing LLC (DTL), that it has licensed a key cell phone patent to Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Ericsson).
(12/18/08) - Ten years after Jacob Krippelz, Sr. first sued Ford Motor Co. for patent infringement, a Federal jury awarded the independent inventor a $23 million verdict. At issue was Krippelz' 1991 patent on an automotive lighting system used in exterior rear view mirrors.
(12/17/08) - Nintendo of America and Nyko Technologies, Inc. announced that they have settled a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Nintendo, which held that Nyko's Kama wireless controller for the Nintendo Wii gaming system infringed on Nintendo's patent for its wired Nunchuk controller.
Nyko will continue to sell a redesigned version of the Kama controller under the agreement.
(12/15/08) - Energizer Holdings Inc. dropped its patent infringement suit against Spectrum Brands, as the two companies settled the case earlier this month. The suit, filed in July, alleged that Spectrum infringed Energizer's patent on lithium batteries by importing lithium batteries from China and selling them under the Rayovac brand.
In our pre-election issue of Wealth of Ideas (November 2008), we compared the technology platforms of both John McCain and Barack Obama with regard to their ideas on patent reform and patent protection - both here in the US and around the world. Now that Obama has emerged victorious and his cabinet is almost completely filled, what more do we know about his plans for patent reform?
SUFFERN, N.Y., December 11, 2008 — General Patent Corporation (GPC), a leading patent licensing and enforcement firm, announced today that it retained on behalf of its client, Worlds.com, Inc., a prominent intellectual property law firm, Lerner David Littenberg Krumholz & Mentlik LLP (LDLKM), to enforce Worlds’ patents.