Organisation: Amazon.com

The rising role of online marketplaces in patent enforcement

In an increasingly digital world, some businesses are seeking the assistance of online marketplaces for cheaper, quasi-judicial patent enforcement

03 July 2024

Xiaomi’s voice-activation command prompt awarded protection in precedent-setting trademark dispute

The Wenzhou Court has affirmed that words with certain influence and popularity are protectable under the Anti-Unfair Competition Law in a trademark-squatting case brought by tech giant Xiaomi. For rights holders of voice-activation command prompts, it is crucial to prove that their names help to identify the source of goods or services.

19 June 2024

USPTO sorting through comments on AI-assisted inventorship guidance

IBM, Qualcomm, Google, Amazon and Novartis agree that inventors must be humans but views vary on the legal test the USPTO is using

17 May 2024

Nokia’s US video codec assertions proceed against HP 

A Delaware judge dismissed HP’s antitrust counterclaim, but its breach-of-contract allegations can proceed; meanwhile, two ITC cases passed claim construction 

08 May 2024

Visiting Washington DC patent people filled me with optimism

Saturday Opinion: US Congress sentiment on patent reform has been swayed by national security concerns, Big Tech probes, and innovation stories that combat “patent troll” talk

04 May 2024

Software co’s $525 million verdict against Amazon Web Services is one of the decade’s largest awards

But appellate data shows Kove IO will face difficulty keeping the winnings considering AWS disagrees with the verdict and pledges to appeal to the Federal Circuit

18 April 2024

BREAKING: Huawei strikes global SEP cross-licence deals with Amazon and Vivo

The Amazon agreement ends all global pending patent litigation between the two companies

05 March 2024

WiFi 6 wars: Huawei scores injunctions against Amazon & AVM, while Wilus sues Acer

Developments in the space make it increasingly likely that the number of Sisvel licensees will continue to grow

15 December 2023

Nokia sues Amazon with video codec SEPs in US, UPC, Germany, and more

The Finnish telecoms firm, which also sued HP Inc in two US venues, claims infringement of AVC and HEVC essential patents and seeks court declarations that it met its FRAND commitments, but the defendants breached them

01 November 2023

Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime primary targets of US video streaming suits

Docket Navigator data shows that the top 10 US providers face unpredictable numbers of lawsuits year-by-year

23 October 2023

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