During COVID-19 pandemic, patent case filings are slowing… and surging
To better understand how the pandemic has impacted patent litigation filings throughout the U.S., we compared 2019 & 2020 new patent cases.
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The End of Apple and Samsung’s Patent Wars
Samsung and Apple Inc.’s seven-year legal battle over smartphone patents has finally reached a resolution. The companies agreed to an undisclosed settlement at the end of June, resolving the most prominent of several lawsuits, in which Apple alleged that Samsung had “slavishly” copied the design of Apple’s vaunted iPhone. The cases played out around the […]
Read MoreLawsuit alleges Apple Pay Patent Violation
Kenneth Weiss, the former CTO and Chairman of the Board at RSA Security, sued Apple Inc. and Visa in May 2017. Mr. Weiss is the founder of Universal Secure Registry (USR) and the inventor of RSA’s SecurID technology, and he is alleging that Apple Pay violates various patents he owns related to encryption technology. Below, […]
Read MoreJury Finds Apple Infringed Smartphone Patent
A patent trial in the District of Delaware between MobileMedia Ideas (MMI) and Apple ended with a jury finding of infringement by Apple and an award of $3 million to MMI. The patent at issue, U.S. Patent No. RE 39,231, described the invention of the “polite ignore” feature on cell phones for silencing an incoming […]
Read MoreShahin Nazarian Provides Deposition Testimony in BIOS Cases
Quandary Peak Research expert Dr. Shahin Nazarian was deposed in several IPR cases on March 15, March 16, April 4 and April 6, 2016. He was the lead testifying expert witness on six contested patents. Nazarian was asked to opine on the invalidity of US patents 6,519,659, 6,487,656, 6,633,976, 6,373,498, 6,401,202, and 6,892,304. Nazarian drew […]
Read MoreRelying on Sole Expert Witness, Samsung Wins Patent Case…Twice
Samsung prevailed in the retrial of a patent infringement case earlier this month as the jury found the asserted patents to be valid but not infringed. Quandary Peak Research software expert Dr. Nenad Medvidovic was called as an expert witness by Samsung in both the original trial, which took place in July, and the retrial, […]
Read MoreQuandary Peak Research Client ROY-G-BIV Successfully Defends Patents in Inter Partes Review (IPR)
Brad Ulrich, a software expert at Quandary Peak Research, recently provided source code review in the matter of ROY-G-BIV Corp. vs. ABB, Inc. et al., a patent infringement action relating to technology for hardware-independent motion control software. Mr. Ulrich is representing the plaintiff, ROY-G-BIV Corporation, in Civil Action No. 6:11-CV-622 being litigated in U.S. District […]
Read MoreHow to Choose an Expert Witness for a Software Patent Case
The importance of software patents has increased dramatically in recent years. The high profile patent disputes between Apple, Google, and other smartphone companies have attracted the most attention in the press, but patent battles are being waged all across the software industry. As a computer scientist who has been retained as an expert in software […]
Read MoreAlice Corp v. CLS Bank: The Technology Court Battle of the Year?
High profile patent cases involving well-known brands and huge financial stakes, like Apple v. Samsung and Samsung v. Ericsson, grab virtually all of the media attention out there. In a sense, they’re the media darlings of patent litigation — easy targets with lots to report on. There is one case, however, that stands to make […]
Read MoreQuandary Peak Research Assists in Nokia v. HTC Patent Litigation
Several senior Quandary Peak engineers, along with attorneys from Desmarais LLP on behalf of Nokia, worked on a major smartphone patent case before the ITC.
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