Canatelo  filed a lawsuit against Toshiba on Feb 2013 (3:13-cv-01086) asserting the claims covered in the US patents 7310111 and 6476858, both entitled ‘Video monitoring and security system’ and currently assigned[i] to Canatelo (source: MaxVal’s Assignment Database).…

On August 2012, Medicis filed a complaint against Actavis for infringing the patent US8236816. The patent is entitled ‘2.times.2.times.2 week dosing regimen for treating actinic keratosis with pharmaceutical compositions formulated with 3.75 % imiquimod’. The patent was issued in Aug 2012 and expires[i] in Dec 2029. The patent is currently…

Data Carriers, a non-practicing company that a holds number of technology patents, had filed lawsuits against Samsung, Barnes & Noble, HTC and AT&T in Mar, 2013 in the District Court of Delaware, which have now come to a close. The suits were filed for infringement of US patent number 5388198 entitled ‘Proactive presentation of automating features to a computer user’. The patent was issued on Feb 07 1995 and…

Plaintiff: Rotatable Technologies

Defendant: Citgo Petroleum

Summary: A patent infringement case (2:13-cv-00108) was filed in the Texas Eastern District Court on 9^th of Feb. The patent involved in this suit is US6326978 entitled Display Method for Selectively Rotating Windows on a Computer…

MaxVal is pleased to announce its next offering - Assignment Database and Alerts.  The Assignment Database offers a structured environment to analyze IP assets purchased or sold by an entity.  The Alerts offer an effortless way to monitor patent transactions.

Using this tool, you can: 

• Search for patents using variety of “Search” options

• Build your own search conditions to set mail alerts

• Receive alerts whenever there is a change in assignment of a patent

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Google initially thought of purchasing the patent portfolio of the bankrupt Nortel Networks by bidding for $900 million but Nortel decided to hold an auction for the patents in the view of minting money in subsequent biddings. Nortel along with its financial advisor contacted almost 98 parties who are likely to be interested and able to acquire the residual…

On 9^th April 2012, Microsoft acquired AOL’s patents for $1.06 billion. Microsoft secured the ability to own or assign approximately 925 U.S patents and patent applications along with license to AOL’s remaining patent portfolio of approximately 300 additional patents. Facebook entered an agreement with Microsoft and obtained…