The success of Amazon's bid to stop InterDigital preventing the High Court from determining final licensing terms for InterDigital's patents could encourage companies to bring litigation earlier to gain leverage in licensing spats, lawyers say.
The success of Amazon's bid to stop InterDigital preventing the High Court from determining final licensing terms for InterDigital's patents could encourage companies to bring litigation earlier to gain leverage in licensing spats, lawyers say.
Nintendo has defended its trademark for a red "M" logo representing the famous Mario video game character, proving that there is no risk of confusion in the European Union with a German steakhouse chain's own "M" logo.
The European Union's General Court has thrown out an appeal by a subsidiary of online platform Lottoland over its "Powerball" trademark, ruling that the company registered the mark to prevent competitors from using the name of the multi-million dollar American lottery in the EU.
LG has lost its bid to patent a display device that better recognizes a user's fingerprints, as European appellate officials held that others would have found it obvious to place the sensor at an oblique angle to reduce a type of image interference.
A European appeals panel has rejected Vivo's attempt to revive its mobile communications patent following a previous challenge from Nokia, ruling in a decision released Thursday that the tech isn't sufficiently new.
