Kenyon, who is seeking damages and lost profits as well as an end to infringement, lays out a range of similarities in plot and character between the two series.
Biogen said yesterday that it would pay $55 million to Berlex Laboratories, an affiliate of Schering, as part of a settlement that ends patent infringement claims related to the two companies' drugs for treating multiple sclerosis, a neurological disease.
A mere day after its key consumer service suffered a major outage, affecting tens of millions of users for hours on end, a patent infringement lawsuit against the company was filed in the United States.
Texas Instruments also agreed to end two patent-infringement lawsuits it filed against Intergraph, which is based in Huntsville, Ala.
Shares of Rambus rose 17 9/16, to 114 11/16, after the memory chip maker said that it had ended its patent infringement lawsuit against Hitachi Ltd. Hitachi agreed to a worldwide licensing agreement on a variety of Rambus products.
Pall in Agreement The Pall Corporation (NYSE PLLL) of East Hills, a manufacturer of filtration and purification systems, said on Monday that it has agreed to acquire Whatman HemaSure, a manufacturer of blood filtration products, for $5.95 million, ending a patent infringement claim dating back to 1996.
Meantime, there's a proposal by Democrats in Congress for patent reform legislation, backed by the likes of Intel and Microsoft, that would put an end to triple-infringement damages.
Zebre went straight upfield from the restart and they opted for a line-out instead of a penalty, but an infringement ended their hopes of going in ahead at the break.
Such behaviour would make the firms clearly liable for copyright infringement and end their immunity, even under the Betamax standard.
The on-going Dutch case against the Pirate Bay, which continues to facilitate copyright infringement, could end up promoted to the European court of justice in the near future.
