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Google has agreed to settle an intellectual property claim brought by serial inventor Judah Klausner, who has won settlements in the past from Apple, Skype and LG Electronics, Klausner said on Monday.

Armed with the 358 page iPhone patent awarded last week, Timothy Cook who runs Apple in Jobs' absence has now threatened Palm with legal action.

DirecTV Group Inc. won a trial following a $78.9 million patent verdict in favor of Finisar Corp. over the information transmission technology.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said...

AstraZeneca PLC, the second- largest drug manufacturer in the U.K., said on Tuesday it has entered into a settlement agreement with Indian generics maker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd to conclude a lawsuit over a patent infringement case for its Nexium drug.

A federal court ruled on Tuesday that Microsoft must pay a Guatemalan investor for infringing his software in its Office Suite.

Internet phone company Vonage Holding Corp. (NYSE:VG) has substantially completed workarounds in its Internet based telephone systems to begin moving away from technology that violated patents.

An appeals court upheld a lower court's ruling that EchoStar Communications Corp and Dish Network Corp. infringed a DVRs software patent held by TiVo and will have to pay nearly $74 million in damages, the court ruled on Thursday.

India's largest drug maker by sales, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, has resolved a U.S. patent dispute over tamsulosin capsules, the company said, sending its shares up as much as 3 percent.

A U.S. jury found that Vonage Holdings Corp had infringed patents owned by Sprint Nextel Corp and ordered the Internet phone company to pay $69.5 million in damages, triggering a 34 percent fall in its shares.

Improving access to medicine could save 10 million lives a year globally, a U.N. health envoy said on Thursday, recommending that drugmakers support research for neglected diseases and cut prices in poor countries.

Top U.S .phone company AT&T Inc said on Monday that it was ordered to pay $156 million after losing a jury verdict in a patent infringement case brought by TGIP Inc.

Acacia Research Corp said its Disc Link Corp unit agreed with Oracle Corp to resolve a pending lawsuit on patents relating to portable storage devices with links that can retrieve added data through the Internet.

Lawmakers returning from their summer break are expected to consider patent law changes that have pitted two of America's most invention-dependent industries against each other.

Diversified manufacturer 3M Co said on Friday that two of its products that are the subject of a patent fight with medical filter maker Pall Corp are no longer on the market.

Pfizer’s effort to extend the patent for its best-selling cholesterol-reducing drug Lipitor an additional 15 months into 2011 has been dealt preliminary setback.

A bid by Pfizer Inc. to win reissuance of a U.S. patent protecting its blockbuster Lipitor cholesterol medicine has been rejected on a preliminary basis, the company said on Friday.

Video rental chain Blockbuster Incl said on Wednesday it had settled a patent dispute with rival Netflix Inc. that had challenged Blockbuster's entry into the online DVD rental business.

Shares of Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG) fell more than 6 percent on Wednesday after the company warned it could take itself into bankruptcy because of an ongoing legal dispute over patents with Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ), according to a regulatory filing.

A federal judge has barred Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VON) from signing up new customers as it appeals a ruling that it infringed upon Verizon Communications, Inc. (NYSE: VZ) patents.

Google announced a new search feature on Thursday, allowing internet users to search through millions of U.S patents issued over the past 200 years.

The demand for patents is increasing, with applications for patents doubling in the last 20 years, the UN Intellectual Property Agency said on Monday.