Posts Tagged: "Koninklijke Philips NV"

CAFC Reverses PTAB Non-Obviousness Decision in Finding for Google

On January 6, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) decision that Google failed to prove Koninklijke Philips’ (Philips) U.S. Patent No. RE44,913 (the ‘913 patent) obvious. The patent describes a method for entering primary and secondary characters on the keypad of a device such as a handheld mobile device. After Philips sued Acer, Inc. and other companies for infringement based on devices that use Google operating systems, Google petitioned the PTAB for inter partes review (IPR) of the ‘913 patent and the board found for Philips. Google appealed the Board’s decision to the CAFC, which held that the Philips invention would have been obvious in light of the prior art.

Nancy Braman

January 7, 2020

Philips, ZOLL closing in on a settlement of patent litigation over defibrillator technologies

On November 28 the parties requested an extension of the temporary stay, explaining: “The parties are still actively engaged in settlement discussions but require additional time to potentially resolve this matter.” A date of December 18, 2017, was jointly proposed for either the filing of a stipulated dismissal or joint status report. The District Court granted this extension on November 29, 2017… These requests for temporary stay follow a jury verdict issued in the case on August 3rd, which awarded reasonable royalties to both Philips and ZOLL for infringement of patents asserted by both parties in the case. That verdict awarded Philips a total of $10.4 million for infringement of three patents, while ZOLL was awarded a reasonable royalty of $3.3 million for two patents it asserted in the case.

Gene Quinn & Steve Brachmann

December 3, 2017

Microsoft files IPR against Philips patent asserted against Taiwanese consumer electronics firms

Dutch tech conglomerate Koninklijke Philips NV is the owner of U.S. Patent No. 6,522,695. The Philips patent is challenged by Microsoft on behalf of several other tech giants… At the center of the proceedings is a challenge to the validity of a patent covering a technology that enables more information to be stored on an optical or magnetic recording medium… The official petition filed by Microsoft is the result of a series of seven lawsuits filed by Philips in December 2015 in which it attempted to assert the ‘695 against a series of tech developers. According to Microsoft’s IPR, the American tech firm has intervened in five of these cases, including suits against Acer and ASUSTEK, by filing as a counterclaim-defendant.

Steve Brachmann

February 20, 2017