Posts Tagged with ‘patent-infringement’

We have recently reported on a Russian company Era Vodoleya that expressed its intentions to sue Google for a huge amount of $3 billion (which is 15% of Google’s revenues) because of Google allegedly infringing a patent with its contextual advertising technology - the one that turned Google into a multi-billion company.
In the post I thought that the entire situation looked more like the company was trying to attract some publicity to itself instead of actually having the resources required [...]

It looks like Google is facing yet another patent lawsuit - this time involving a huge amount of money, the technology that is the key to Google’s money-making machine and a team of Russian developers. The Russian company “Era Vodoleya” (translated into English as “The Age of Aquarius”) claims that they patented the technology involved in contextual advertising a year before Google began using this technology.
The CEO of the Russian company told to the Russian CNews branch (in Russian) that [...]

The beating Vonage has been taking in the courts over patent infringement is nothing less than staggering. The latest news from the bench paints the picture for the future of the company even more starkly.
A judgment passed by magistrate Claude Hilton Friday ?bars Vonage from signing up new customers.? If that is not reason for Vonage to worry about its future, it?s difficult to image what, if anything, would faze the company?s executives and managerial body. The decision [...]