Volume IX

Issue : 8: December 16, 2010

• Terminations Over Facebook Comments Upheld
• Google Modifies Search Algorithm to Discourage Aggressive Search Optimization
• Pittsburgh Couple Successful in Claim Against Google for Street View Photo
• RIM Sues Software Firm for Patent Infringement
• Intellectual Ventures Files Infringement Complaints Against Nine Companies
• U.S. Supreme Court: eBay Not Liable on Trademark Dispute with Tiffany
• Apple Granted Patent for Glasses-Less 3D Projection
• FTC Wants Voluntary 'Do Not Track' for the Web

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Intellectual Ventures Files Infringement Complaints Against Nine Companies

Intellectual Ventures LLC ("IV"), the firm co-founded by Microsoft Corporation Chief Technology Officer, Nathan Myhrvold, filed three separate patent infringement complaints against nine companies in the technology industry on December 8, 2010.  The complaints were made against leaders in the software security industry (including, McAfee, Inc. and Symantec Corporation), the DRAM and Flash memory industry (including Elpida Memory, Inc), and the FPGA industry (including Altera Corporation). IV brought the complaints against those companies with which it has not had successful license agreement negotiations.

IV owns approximately 30,000 patents and patent applications, and is thought to have one of the largest portfolios among those firms that do not make or sell any products.  It claims to earn nearly $2 billion from licensing its patents.

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