Motorola Mobility has been found to have infringed one of Microsoft's patents in a preliminary ruling by a US trade panel judge.
Intel agreed to settle claims that its Pentium family of microprocessors had infringed upon Intergraph's patents.
The case was brought by a Canadian software company, i4i Limited Partnership, which said a version of Microsoft Word had infringed its patented method for editing documents.
The America Invents Act, signed in 2011, made it illegal to file a single lawsuit claiming a whole bunch of defendants had infringed a patent in the same way.
But the administration may face a tough sell in Congress, with a growing number of lawmakers from both parties questioning whether the government's expanded powers in dozens of areas of law enforcement have infringed on civil liberties.
In 1997, the Supreme Court found that General Electric, one of the largest makers of M.R.I. machines, had infringed his 1974 patent, and it paid Dr. Damadian $129 million.
South Korean firm Samsung has countered that with allegations of its own that Apple has infringed five of its patents, and is seeking an unspecified amount of its mobile revenues.
The 10-member jury spent just about two hours, including a cigarette break, to decide that the parent of the Dish satellite network had infringed nine sections of TiVo's patent on technology for digital video recorders that let viewers pause, rewind and fast-forward live TV shows.
In August 1996 Nichia filed a lawsuit alleging that Toyoda Gosei, a member of the Toyota group, had infringed its patents and demanded that Toyoda stop all shipments of blue LEDs and pay damages of $5.7 million.
Teva, based in Petah Tikva, Israel, conceded that its version of the drug would have infringed Pfizer's patents — if they were valid.
