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Posted by Dirk Avery at 9:13 am under Litigation, Patent.
Nokia wins Qualcomm patent suit in the UK. Bloomberg’s James Lumley has this:
Nokia Oyj, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, won a U.K. patent lawsuit filed by Qualcomm Inc. over patents related to GSM technology.
One of Qualcomm’s patents is invalid and another is partially invalid, Justice Christopher Floyd said at a hearing today at the High Court in London. Remedies in the case will be determined at a future hearing, he added…
The patent that was completely invalidated, European Patent (U.K.) No. 0629324, concerns a system for reducing mobile phone power consumption, Floyd said in his written judgment. The phone conserves power by only intermittently monitoring a channel for incoming messages. This patent was invalidated for “lack of novelty,” Floyd ruled.
The second patent, which was partially invalidated, relates to a method for correcting and limiting the mobile phone’s transmitted power, Floyd said. Its reference is European Patent (U.K.) No. 0695482. The judge ruled that parts of this patent lacked “an inventive step.”
Akamai awarded $45.5 million in dispute with Limelight, says NetworkWorld’s Brad Reed:
Limelight Networks suffered a major blow on Saturday, as a jury in the Massachusetts U.S. District Court found that the company had infringed upon a key content delivery patent held by rival content delivery network provider Akamai.
The jury’s verdict, which came less than three weeks after the patent trial began, awarded Akamai US$45.5 million in damages.
The patent in the dispute, number 6,108,703, deals with a global hosting system that “allows a content provider to replicate and serve its most popular content at an unlimited number of points throughout the world” and was originally awarded to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000.
Visto, who won $7.7 million award from Seven Networks, settles with Microsoft. CNET’s Mike Ricciuti writes:
Microsoft and Visto, which provides mobile e-mail services, said Monday that they have settled a long-running patent dispute… [but] did not disclose details of the settlement… Visto said it has entered into a licensing deal with Microsoft that involves “cash and non-cash consideration.”
New Jersey-based Barr, playing at home, beats Germany-based Bayer in oral-contraceptive patent dispute. Barr was sued back in April 2005. Monday District Court Judge Peter Sheridan, relying on obviousness, invalidated Bayer’s US Patent No. 6,787,531. Bloomberg’s Susan Decker and Jeff St. Onge write:
Bayer said it may appeal yesterday’s decision and is evaluating the effect of the court’s ruling on the Yaz birth control pill, a related drug that was approved for sale in the U.S. in 2006 and also is protected by the patent…
Yasmin sales in the U.S. were $488.1 million last year. The family of contraceptives that includes Yasmin and Yaz generated $1.58 billion in 2007 sales last year for… Bayer. The group is the company’s best-selling drug product…
Barr, the second-biggest U.S. maker of birth-control pills behind Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc., is seeking to sell a generic version of Yasmin.
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