SAP has agreed to pay i2 Technologies, maker of supply chain management software, $83.3 million to settle a patent claim i2 brought against the enterprise software maker. The Dallas company had sued SAP in 2006, claiming that it had infringed on a nu ..
India and China might be the competing economic giants globally, but when it comes to innovation, the land of dragon is way ahead, filing nearly seven times more patent applications compared to our country. According to global research and analytics ..
Patients from Brazil have asked the Delhi patent office not to grant a patent pending on the HIV drug tenofovir because it would prevent the import of low-cost generic medicines from India they say are important for their national AIDS treatment prog ..
Mount Everest Mineral Water (MEMW), the Tata Group's beverage company, is fighting legal battle with Bisleri over the Himalyan trademark. It would take another four months to be heard at the Delhi High Court, it is expected to be heard next in Octobe ..
Settlements of lawsuits have become common between branded-drug makers and their generic-drug counterparts -- Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) did it just last week -- but the agreement between Barr Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: BRL) and Bayer may have set a record for t ..
According to a company note, Roquette Frères filed a suit against SPI Pharma and DryTec in the US District court for the District of Delaware for infringement of Roquette's US patent No 5,573,777. Roquette identifies the Pharmaburst product line of S ..
Microsoft must pay Alcatel-Lucent $511.6 million, after a federal court refused to overturn an earlier jury verdict against the software giant.Judge Marilyn L. Huff refused to reconsider an April jury verdict that Microsoft infringed Alacatel-Lucent ..
Now that the Patent Reform Act (S. 1145) has been pulled from the Senate floor schedule, it looks like business as usual for patent litigants, as a holder of touch screen patents has launched a carpet-bombing assault.Re-tooling a patent infringement ..
A federal jury awarded neuroscience-based biotech Elan Pharma International $55.2 million and a 6 percent royalty rate in its patent infringement suit against Abraxis BioScience, which said it would appeal. A recent ruling in the U.S. District Court ..
Texas-based company, Clear With Computers (CWC), is suing Apple and Hewlett-Packard (HP) in the Texas Eastern District Court for infringing upon two of their patents, namely the patent #5615342 entitled “Electronic Proposal Preparation System,” and t ..