BlackBerry has completed the sale of substantially all of its non-core patents and patent applications to Malikie Innovations Limited (“Malikie”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Key Patent Innovations Limited.
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BlackBerry has agreed to sell most of its legacy smartphone patents for an upfront payment of US$170-million in a deal the company said could be worth as much as US$900-million.
Nokia has signed a new cross-license patent agreement with Samsung following the expiry of the previous agreement at the end of 2022.
Apple smartwatches could face an import ban after a U.S. judge ruled that the company infringed on one of Masimo's pulse oximeter patents.
Ericsson and Apple have reached a multi-year, global patent license agreement between the two companies. The agreement includes a cross-license relating to patented cellular standard-essential technologies and grants certain other patent rights.
Source Digital has been awarded a European patent that not only covers functionality for activating visual content in video, but at any coordinate in any metaverse
Back in January of this year, BlackBerry entered into a patent sale agreement with Catapult IP Innovations Inc., a Delaware company, pursuant to which BlackBerry agreed to sell substantially all of its non-core patent assets to Catapult for total consideration of $600 million.
Metaverse yacht company Cyber Yachts has been awarded patent-pending status by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patents relate to revolutionary technology developed for Cyber Yachts' NFT and metaverse projects.
Fender has tendered a series of applications to enable the guitar giant to use their headstock shape in potential NFT products and virtual goods.
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BlackBerry has entered into a patent sale agreement with Catapult IP Innovations Inc., a Delaware company, pursuant to which BlackBerry has agreed to sell substantially all of its non-core patent assets to Catapult for total consideration of $600 million.
ByteDance has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, becoming a licensee and community member of OIN.
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Ericsson and Samsung have reached a multi-year agreement on global patent licenses between the two companies, including patents relating to all cellular technologies. The cross-license agreement covers sales of network infrastructure and handsets from January 1, 2021.
Nokia has been ranked as number one in 5G patents by an independent third party. In its study on Standard Essential Patents (published April 2021), independent analyst firm PA Consulting concluded that Nokia is number one for ownership of granted patents that the researchers found essential to 5G standards.
A federal jury in Texas has directed that Apple must pay about $308.5 million to Personalized Media Communications LLC (PMC) for infringing a patent associated with digital rights management.
Nokia has signed a patent license agreement with Samsung, which covers the use of Nokia’s innovations in video standards. Under the agreement, Samsung will make royalty payments to Nokia.
BlackBerry has settled a dispute with Facebook over patent royalties for terms that weren’t disclosed. “We have resolved our disputes pursuant to a confidential agreement and have no further comment,” BlackBerry spokeswoman Karen Clyne said in an email.
MobileIron has agreed to drop both patent infringement and extortion claims it levelled against BlackBerry. In a four page joint filing, BlackBerry and MobileIron asked Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero to end MobileIron's case, which it filed against BlackBerry in April.
BlackBerry is reportedly looking to sell its intellectual property holdings, which could be worth more than US$450 million.
BlackBerry has hired Brian Yearwood as a new director of licensing. Yearwood will be responsible for patent licensing matters and the settlement of patent litigation through licensing. He will provide business/financial advice and preliminary damages analysis for patent litigation matters– delivered to the litigation team and plaintiff/client and work with external damages experts to prepare damages report for litigation matters.
The UK Supreme Court today unanimously dismissed appeals by China’s Huawei and ZTE in patent disputes over mobile data technology with Unwired Planet International and Conversant Wireless. It is the first time that a UK court has issued a decision on what constitutes a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) commitment to licence standard-essential patents (SEPs).
Huawei has filed a patent for smartphones with an under-display selfie camera. The tech giant filed two patents back in 2019 that has finally been published by the CNIPA (China National Intellectual Property Office).
InterDigital has signed a multi-year license agreement with Chinese manufacturer Huawei with the companies agreeing to dismiss pending litigation between the two.
OPPO is to license its worldwide 3G and 4G standard-essential patents to the IoT and automotive markets through patent licensing platform Avanci.
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Huawei has filed a $1bn Patent Infringement lawsuit against Verizon, accusing Verizon of intellectual property theft.
A California judge has invalidated four BlackBerry messaging and social media patents asserted under Alice. In an October 1 order issued in the company’s lawsuit against Twitter, District Judge George H.
Huawei accused U.S. authorities on Wednesday of attempting to break into its information systems and of trying to coerce its employees to gather information on the company.
HTC has suspended the sale of its smartphones in the UK, as part of an ongoing patent dispute.
Non-practising entity IPCom claimed that, as a result of its claim of patent infringement, HTC had indicated it would suspend the sale and importation of the recently launched Desire 12 handset to the UK market, in addition to taking steps to stop sales of all of its mobile devices in the UK.
Via Licensing today announced that nearly 100 patents essential to the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard have been purchased by Via’s wholly owned defensive patent bank.
A jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California has found that Apple iPhone 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus and X infringe two Qualcomm patents, U.S. Patent No. 8,838,949, and U.S. Patent No. 9,535,490, and Apple iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X infringe Qualcomm's U.S. Patent No. 8,633,936.
Back in March 2018, BlackBerry sued Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp over messaging patents. Within months, Facebook counter-sued BlackBerry for similar reasons. Both cases are still in litigation, but BlackBerry has now filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Twitter.
Facebook is suing BlackBerry for patent infringement related to voice-messaging technology, in the latest round of the legal battle between the two companies.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) invalidated BlackBerry’s patent 8,745,149 Wednesday and the board has now invalidated another two of BlackBerry's patents related to smartphone technology.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated BlackBerry’s patent 8,745,149, a patent for display of time information for a message in certain circumstances. According to the Board, the patent is already covered by other patents.
In a 28-page order, U.S. District Judge George Wu followed up on his ruling earlier this month and dismissed BlackBerry’s wilful infringement and indirect infringement allegations against both Facebook and Snap.
BlackBerry has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Snap Inc. SImilar to the companies lawsuit against Facebook last month, BlackBerry says that Snap has infringed on intellectual property, including innovations on real-time activity location for maps, message notification techniques and methods for integrating advertising on mobile devices.
A US federal appeals court ruled Google violated copyright laws by using Oracle's software when developing its Android mobile platform. Judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Google's unauthorized use of 37 packages of Oracle's open-source Java application programming interface, or API, was unfair as a matter of law.
BlackBerry has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook and its companies WhatsApp and Instagram for their use of instant messaging. The lawsuit alleges that Facebook "created mobile messaging applications that co-opt BlackBerry's innovations, using a number of the innovative security, user interface, and functionality enhancing features.
The International Chamber of Commerce's International Court of Arbitration has ruled against BlackBerry in a contract dispute with Nokia. The court found that BlackBerry failed to make payment under a patent license contract.
BlackBerry announced today that it has entered into a strategic licensing agreement with Teletry, an independent operating company with expertise in building relationships.
John Chen, CEO of BlackBerry joined Cheddar on the day the company moves to the New York Stock Exchange after 30 years at the Nasdaq. Chen explained that it's time to relaunch the company.
Back in August of 2016, BlackBerry filed two patent lawsuits in the United States against BLU Products. Both companies announced today they have entered into a patent license agreement.
The man who was leading BlackBerry's efforts to make money from its patent portfolio has left to join a health technology company, two sources with knowledge of the move said on Monday.
BlackBerry and Timex Group announced today they have entered into a patent license agreement. The financial structure of the deal includes on-going royalty payments from Timex to BlackBerry.
VirnetX Holding Corporation today announced it has entered into a Patent Standstill Agreement with HTC. The deal was facilitated by VirnetX's licensing partner, IPVALUE Management Inc.
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BlackBerry announced today that it has reached an agreement with Qualcomm resolving all amounts payable in connection with the interim arbitration decision announced on April 12, 2017.
BlackBerry has been awarded $814.9m (around £652m) in an arbitration settlement with Qualcomm. That £652m sum, which will increase next month when legal fees and interest are added, was awarded to BlackBerry.
Specialist Intellectual Property (IP) Law firm EIP today secured a significant decision on behalf of its client in a case of international relevance to the telecoms sector.
LG has filed complaints with the U.S. International Trade Commission and United States District Court for the District of Delaware against BLU for infringing five LG patents that have been declared as essential to the LTE standard.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new patent licensing agreement with Toyota that includes broad coverage for connected car technologies. Today's agreement builds on Toyota and Microsoft's strong partnership.
A U.S. magistrate judge has decided that two patent infringement suits against BlackBerry should go forward.
Patent holder PanOptis Patent Management LLC had filed two separate complaints against the company in January.
In what could be perceived as a surprise move, BlackBerry launched an infringement suit against Nokia Corp. in a US court Tuesday for allegedly using 11 of BlackBerry's patents that describe proprietary technology.
BlackBerry asked a New York bankruptcy court Friday, to lift the stay on its patent suit against Avaya Inc., claiming that the company is continuing to sell the allegedly infringing products.
Microsoft and Lenovo have announced a deepening of their strategic relationship. Lenovo will load Microsoft's productivity apps, including Microsoft Office, OneDrive and Skype, on select Lenovo devices that use Android.
It would appear that BlackBerry are now on the patent offensive. After filing a patent suit against Avaya two weeks ago, BlackBerry has filed two patent lawsuits in the United States, this time against BLU Products.
Blackberry has initiated litigation against Avaya in the Northern District of Texas. In a suit, filed on 27th July, Blackberry alleges that the Santa Clara-based company has infringed eight of its US patents.
BlackBerry announced Friday that a federal jury has ruled in favor of BlackBerry in a patent infringement case brought by Mobile Telecommunications LLC (MTel) in the U.S. District Court.
A U.S. appeals court has overturned a $120 million jury verdict against Samsung saying Samsung did not infringe Apple's "quick links" patent.
DataArt, a global technology consulting firm that creates end-to-end solutions for enterprise clients in select industries, today announced the launch of a dedicated Telecom Practice.
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BlackBerry has announced the company has entered into a patent license agreement with Canon Inc. for certain power charging technology used by Canon products.
BlackBerry and International Game Technology (IGT) have announced that they have entered into a royalty bearing patent license agreement related to certain power charging technology used in IGT products.
Attorneys with the Dallas law firm Caldwell Cassady & Curry won a $625.6 million verdict today in favor of Nevada-based VirnetX Holding Corp. in a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple Inc.
MobileIron and Good Technology today announced that they have settled all outstanding litigation between them. The settlement includes a narrow, non-material license agreement between Good and MobileIron and a mutual dismissal of claims.
Sandeep Chennakeshu has been at BlackBerry since August of last year as an employee, but before that he started analysing BlackBerry in September 2013.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen said Thursday that he sees its massive patent portfolio as one of the key elements in its turnaround strategy as it pivots to focus more on its software and enterprise business.
The U.S Patent Office has overturned an Apple design patent that a jury said Samsung infringed on leading to a huge monetary award.
Microsoft has won an appeals court ruling in the U.S. that may lower the rates many electronics makers pay to license technology considered standard in smartphones and computers.
Kyocera and Microsoft have announced they have signed an agreement expanding on a prior patent licensing arrangement.
BlackBerry today announced that they have entered into a long-term patent cross-licensing agreement covering their respective products and technologies.
Microsoft sued Kyocera for patent infringement on Friday, alleging the Japanese company's Duraforce, Hydro and Brigadier cell phone lines violate seven Microsoft patents.
Swedish telecoms firm Ericsson has filed two complaints with the International Trade Commission (ITC) and seven complaints in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Apple.
Smartflash LLC has won a patent trial against Apple, where a jury ruled that they owe $532.9 million to the small company.
A Texas federal jury has awarded $15.7 million to Rembrandt Wireless Technologies after finding that Samsung Electronics infringed on two Rembrandt patents covering Bluetooth technology.
In a U.S. District Court lawsuit in which Immersion Corporation has accused HTC of infringing on several of its patents concerning haptic feedback technologies, the judge has agreed to go forward with litigation over two of the patents in question, but has dismissed three others.
The Internet is a wonderful place, with rumours abound. It doesn't take much to cause a stir and Reuters certainly did that earlier this evening when they published an article alleging that Samsung were reportedly in talks to purchase BlackBerry.
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