Apple Patent Litigation Updates: Kodak and MONKEYmedia
The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has voted to institute an investigation of certain digital imaging devices and related software. The products at issue in this investigation are digital still cameras, digital video cameras, and related software.
The investigation is based on a complaint filed by Apple Inc., f/k/a Apple Computer, Inc., of Cupertino, CA, on April 15, 2010. The complaint alleges violations of section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 in the importation into the United States and sale of digital imaging devices and related software that infringe patents asserted by Apple. The complainants request that the USITC issue an exclusion order and a cease and desist order.
MONKEYmedia today filed a lawsuit against Apple, Inc. for infringing claims in three of MONKEYmedia's Seamless Contraction patents. Apple's infringement involves its user interfaces for document summarization, RSS readers and video players that can display multiple versions of text and/or audiovisual content. The lawsuit was filed in the Western District of Texas - Austin Division.
"We can sit by and watch Apple continue to use our patented inventions without paying, or we can do something about it," said Eric Bear, MONKEYmedia's CEO. "Synergy between inventors and manufacturers is healthy, and we love that Apple believes in our technology. We simply prefer open communications and fair compensation."
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MONKEYmedia exited the user interface design business in 2001 and since that time has been focused on leveraging its patent portfolio
Says it all :rolleyes:
Tony
MONKEYmedia exited the user interface design business in 2001 and since that time has been focused on leveraging its patent portfolio.
If at first you don't make it big time, sue, sue again! :rolleyes:
It's probably pointless to keep posting these back and forth patent lawsuits as Page 1. It just generates the exact same comments and at this point, and is almost too silly to even care anymore. This should be Page 2 stuff.
Tony
MR needs to create a "Litigation Tab" between "Page 2" and "iPhone" so as to keep score and see what is new in the Soap Opera I like to call, "As the World..." opps, can't use that, I might get sued! :D
Did Apple do any patent research before they built this thing?
"I had an idea"
"I had an idea too, and I risked fifty million dollars and years of development turning it into a real product and bringing it to market"
Who gets the $?
Lawyers. Great.
I don't know how much merit this case has, and I don't really care, but why isn't anyone doing anything about patent reform?
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