The Federal Circuit issued two companion decisions involving the same patent license arrangement, one that affected at least three district court decisions. Uniloc USA, Inc., Uniloc Luxembourg S.A., and Uniloc 2017 LLC, which I’ll just refer to as “Uniloc,” sued Apple, Motorola Mobility and Google for patent infringement. However, Uniloc had received funding from...
Read more →Before Google acquired Android, Inc., and later released the Android operating system, Erich Specht had registered the mark ANDROID DATA. Specht claimed Google infringed his trademark; Google was successful in the trial court with a claim that Specht had abandoned the trademark, as I previously blogged. The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit...
Read more →What does “cover” mean in a patent assignment clause? Plaintiff Openwave Systems, Inc. developed software for network computing but decided to sell off the client-side part of the business, keeping the server-side. It sold the business to Purple Labs S.A., predecessor to defendant Myriad France S.A.S. Some patents were assigned in the transaction, but...
Read more →Google has successfully defeated an infringement claim over its use of the ANDROID trademark. So I thought I’d take a look at the bases, which include rarer claims of tacking and abandonment, along with a first use date kicker. Plaintiff Specht had a trademark registration for ANDROID DATA but went out of business. He assigned the...
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