MARSHALL – Appliance giant Whirlpool Corp. was awarded $7.6 million by a jury that found a California-based water filter company copied a Whirlpool design.
AUSTIN – Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed three people to the Texas Judicial Council, with two appointments set to expire June 30, 2021, and one appointment set to expire June 30, 2019.
MARSHALL -- A jury in the Marshall Division of the Eastern District of Texas has ordered LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A. and parent LG Electronics, Inc. to pay Core Wireless Licensing $2.8 million based on a royalty rate of 6 cents per unit of smartphone sales for willfully infringing on two patents that Core acquired when it purchased intellectual property rights to Nokia wireless telecommunications and smartphone technology.
Within 24 hours of being dismissed from a patent infringement lawsuit over USB hub tech, a Newegg subsidiary has countered with a suit of its own, seeking to ensure no further litigation will ensue against it and the sellers of its products.
Barkan Wireless Technologies, L.P. v. T-Mobile US, Inc. et al 2:16-cv-00063-RWS-RSP
Allen-based Barkan asserts ownership of United States Patent Numbers 9,042,306 (“the ‘306 patent”) and No. 8,559,369 (“the ‘369 patent”), both titled “Wireless Internet System and Method”.
GameStop Corp. and Wal-Mart Inc. recently filed original answers to a federal lawsuit accusing them and several other entities of infringing upon patented microprocessor production technology. Tyler Division of the Eastern District of Texas records show GameStop and Wal-Mart, as well as the discount retailer’s subsidiary Wal-Mart Stores Texas LLC, entered their rebuttals into DSS Technology Management, Inc.’s suit on Sept. 8. DSS is pursuing legal action on grounds United States Patent Number
