FCC spectrum auction gets underway, seeks to clear 126 MHz for wireless...
The incentive auction being conducted by the FCC is a two-part process. First, at the end of May, the agency began conducting a reverse auction which sought 126 MHz of relinquished broadcast spectrum...
View Article2016 Rio Olympics will see plenty of U.S. innovations from Nike, Comcast and...
One way in which innovation has already touched the games before it has even begun is in the figure of the famed Olympic torch, which travels the world before lighting the fire that announces the start...
View ArticleTiVo settlement with Samsung is latest successful litigation outcome...
Digital video recording (DVR) development company TiVo recently settled a patent infringement litigation, which it had filed last year against South Korean electronics giant Samsung. The settlement...
View ArticleCould Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg join the Trump Administration?
Text messages sent between Andreesen and Erskine Bowles speak to Zuckerberg’s desire to be able to maintain control of Facebook while possibly serving two years in government... The fact that...
View ArticleCisco v. Arista patent and copyright infringement cases see conflicting...
A patent and copyright squabble involving two players in the networking space for information technology (IT) development, which has ramped up in recent years, saw an interesting round of events play...
View ArticleOther Barks & Bites for Wednesday, February 15th, 2017
On the menu this week for Other Barks & Bites... Video game systems developed by Nintendo and Sony are targeted in a patent infringement suit filed in Delaware federal court. The infamous...
View ArticleUniloc files patent suits against Amazon and Google for conference call, VoIP...
Plano, TX-based security tech provider Uniloc USA recently filed a pair of patent infringement suits in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (E.D. Tex.) in which Uniloc asserts a...
View ArticleCisco Successfully Invalidates Patent for Lack of Written Description
Cisco challenged Cirrex’s patent via inter partes reexamination, asserting a lack of written description. The Board affirmed the Examiner’s findings, that the patent, as amended, contained both...
View ArticlePTAB overturns two Cisco patents, clearing way for Arista to overturn ITC...
Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) was recently successful in its attempts to overturn the validity of a patent held by San Jose, CA-based tech multinational Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO). The recent ruling of...
View ArticleThe High Tech Inventors Alliance: The newest institution of the efficient...
Eight tech companies owning a collective 115,000 patents announced the establishment of the High Tech Inventors Alliance (HTIA), an organization they claim is “dedicated to supporting balanced patent...
View ArticleTech’s Ruling Class Files Amici Briefs with U.S. Supreme Court in Oil States...
October 30th was a very busy day for amici filing briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court on how the highest court in the nation should decide in Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group,...
View ArticleArista Pays Cisco $400M to end Patent Litigation at District Court and ITC
On Monday, August 6th, Santa Clara, CA-based computer networking Arista Networks filed a Form 8-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announcing the firm had entered into an...
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