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Summary Companies Law firms Apple, Google, Intel challenged PTO rule on discretion to deny challenges PTAB reviews dropped after rule took effect (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Thursday heard a bid by Apple Inc, Google Inc, Intel Corp and others to revive their challenge to a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office policy that made it harder to contest the validity of patents issued by the agency. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had pointed questions for both… Source link

Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, former president and chief operating officer (COO) of Theranos and ex-boyfriend of founder Elizabeth Holmes, leaves after the opening day of his federal trial for wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud was postponed due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) exposure in the courtroom in San Jose, California, U.S. March 16, 2022. REUTERS/Brittany Hosea-Small Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the former president and chief operating officer of the defunct Silicon Valley… Source link

Summary Companies Law firms Related documents Uniloc sued Google for infringing IT, network, video patents Federal Circuit said Uniloc had standing to sue (Reuters) – Google LLC’s win against 11 lawsuits brought by Uniloc 2017 LLC, a company that acquires third-party patents to monetize them, was reversed by a U.S. appeals court Friday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said Uniloc’s patent-licensing clause in a contract with a unit at affiliate Fortress Investment Group unit did… Source link

At the same time as U.S. and Russian diplomats are discussing a potential prisoner exchange involving Brittney Griner, the American basketball star’s attorneys are exhausting all available options to try to reduce her nine-year prison sentence. Griner’s defense team on Monday filed an appeal against the verdict handed down earlier this month by a Russian court, attorney Maria Blagovolina confirmed via email to Yahoo Sports. Blagovolina did not respond to a question seeking an explanation… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Shopify Inc.’s president appealed to investors to focus on the company’s growing customer base as the stock dropped again Friday to a fresh two-year low. Most Read from Bloomberg The Canadian firm’s shares have plunged 21% since it disclosed first-quarter profit on Thursday morning that fell far short of analysts’ estimates. Shopify is navigating a “rebalancing” in retail that has seen shoppers head back to physical stores now that the Covid-19 crisis is easing,… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American 

Google is appealing the more than half a billion dollar fine it got slapped with by France’s competition authority in July. The penalty relates to the adtech giant’s approach toward paying news publishers for content reuse. In a statement today, Sebastien Missoffe, a Google France VP and country manager, characterized the fine as “disproportionate” — claiming that the $592M penalty is not justified in light of Google’s “efforts” to cut a deal with news publishers and… Source link

PARIS (AP) — Google is appealing a 500 million euro ($591 million) fine issued by French regulators over its handling of negotiations with publishers in a dispute over copyright. The dispute is part of a larger battle by authorities in Europe and elsewhere to force Google and other tech companies to compensate publishers for content. “We disagree with a number of legal elements, and believe that the fine is disproportionate to our efforts to reach an agreement and comply with the new… Source link

The Google logo displayed on a smartphone with several newspaper front pages pictured in the background. Hakan Nural | Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Google said on Wednesday it was appealing against a 500 million euro ($591 million) fine imposed by France’s antitrust watchdog in July over a dispute with local media about paying for news content. The fine came amid increasing international pressure on online platforms such as Google, part of Alphabet Inc, and Facebook to share more of the… Source link

WASHINGTON — In late March, Krispy Kreme made an offer: Any customer showing a coronavirus vaccination card would receive a free doughnut. Some celebrated the move as the kind of public health nudge that could hasten vaccine uptake, but Dr. Leana Wen was not among those cheerleaders. The former Baltimore public health commissioner, who has become a prominent media commentator on the pandemic, took to Twitter to criticize Krispy Kreme. “Every incentive helps & free donuts may help move the… Source link