Apple wins German patent suit against Motorola

Apple has won a German lawsuit against Motorola Mobility over claims “slide-to-unlock” patents that the iPhone-maker owns were illegally infringed upon. A Munich Regional Court ruled Thursday that a number of Motorola’s smartphones, which run Google’s Android operating system, violate two European patents owned by Apple that keep a phone locked unless a user performs [...]

Procter & Gamble Announces Agreement to Divest Pringles to The Kellogg Company for $2.7 Billion

CINCINNATI, Feb 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Procter & Gamble Company PG +0.05% today announced an agreement to divest its Snacks business to The Kellogg Company in a $2.7 billion all-cash transaction. The companies expect to complete the deal in summer of 2012. Final timing will be dependent upon receiving all necessary regulatory approvals. [...]

Spin Transfer Tech Nabs Huge A Round

Boston-based Spin Transfer Technologies, the developer of computer memory technology, secured a $36 million Series A round. The investment was led by Spin Transfer Tech’s parent company, Allied Minds and Invesco Asset Management. Spin Transfer Tech was established by NYU and Allied Minds. PRESS RELEASE BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Spin Transfer Technologies, Inc. a leading developer of a [...]

IP Completes Deal for Temple-Inland

The forest products company International Paper Co. (IP), based in Memphis, Tenn., and Temple-Inland Inc. (TIN), based in Austin, Texas, have jointly announced that they have reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division in regard to IP’s acquisition of Temple-Inland. The transaction is valued at $4.5 billion Following the Department of [...]

Google Motorola Deal Approved

Google’s $12.5 billion offer to acquire Motorola Mobility was approved on Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission. The Department of Justice also said it will allow two related deals: an offer from Apple, Microsoft, and Research in Motion to buy Nortel’s patent portfolio and Apple’s bid to acquire certain Novell [...]

VanDyne SuperTurbo™ Raises $8 Million in Series C Equity Financing

FT. COLLINS, Colo., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – VanDyne SuperTurbo™ Inc. has raised $8 million in Series C equity financing round. The round was led by Northwater Capital’s Intellectual Property Fund with participation by existing investors. Proceeds from the financing will help drive the company’s growth initiatives and speed up the commercialization of the SuperTurbo™ technology. [...]

mBLAST Expands Patent Portfolio

Boston, MA (PRWEB) February 14, 2012 The United States Patent and Trademark Office today has issued patent number 8117261 to mBLAST, Inc. to extend protection for its pioneering work in influencer workflows and content handling. “mBLAST was really far out in front of everyone else in understanding the critical roles that influencers play in the [...]

ComScore posts quarterly lose – due in part to patent litigation and settlement

Digital audience measurement company comScore this morning reported its earnings for Q4 and full year 2011. Last quarter, comScore says it achieved record revenue of $62.6 million, a 22 percent increase compared to the fourth quarter of 2010. However, comScore posted a net loss of $3.3 million, or a loss of $0.10 per share, for [...]

Hasbro Links with French Company Volumique to Create Highly Innovative New Experience

PAWTUCKET, RI & PARIS–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS) and Volumique, a French-based innovator and provider of technologies that enable object-based play on Interactive Screens found in tablets, smart phones and computers, announced today a global intellectual property license agreement that will give Hasbro the rights to employ Volumique’s proprietary technology in its new line [...]

BG Medicine, Inc. Secures $15 Million Loan Facility From GE Capital and Comerica

WALTHAM, Mass., Feb 13, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — BG Medicine, Inc. BGMD -2.82% , a company focused on the development and commercialization of novel, biomarker-based diagnostics, announced today that it has entered into a $15.0 million secured loan facility with GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services and Comerica Bank. An initial term loan in the [...]

Spin Transfer whips up $36M in first round

Allied Minds has spun out a new startup, Spin Transfer Technologies Inc., with $36 million in a Series A round and tech to make a new kind of computer and device memory. Joining Allied Minds in backing the Boston-based startup was Invesco Asset Management, according to a news release. Spin Transfer is working on what [...]

VeriSilicon Licenses ZSP G3 Cores to Marvell

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — VeriSilicon Holdings Co. Ltd. (VeriSilicon), a world-class, custom silicon solutions and semiconductor IP provider, announced a licensing agreement for ZSP G3 cores with Marvell MRVL +0.38% . The agreement includes the Dual-MAC ZSP800M and ZSP880M synthesizable DSP cores which are area and power optimized for efficient [...]

Sanofi, BMS collect their $444M in Plavix damages

Apotex has finally paid its Plavix dues. The generics maker has handed over $444 million to Sanofi ($SNY) and Bristol-Myers Squibb ($BMY), as repayment for its premature launch of generic Plavix back in 2006. The payment marks the end of a patent dispute that went on for almost 10 years, and follows Apotex’s unsuccessful appeal [...]

AWR Expands Patent Portfolio and Receives Patent for Automatic Creation of Vias in Electrical Circuit Design

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — AWR Corporation, the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, has been issued a US Patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for “automatic creation of vias in electrical circuit design.” Issued on December 27, 2011, patent number 8,086,991 addresses a methodology of creating and [...]

Article One Partners Awards Research Community More Than $2 Million

NEW YORK, NY, Feb 07, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Article One Partners (AOP), the world’s largest patent research community, today announced that the company has awarded more than $2 million in financial incentives to its global research community. AOP’s researchers can earn annual salaries upwards of $60,000, gain control of their careers and experience [...]

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