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...Brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev is a prominent example of take-no-prisoners integrators while companies like US technology group Cisco are more inclined to maintain the identity of the acquired businesses....
...“Patent values are plummeting, and licensing and capital investments in many technologies are sinking. The AIA has done more harm than good.”...
...Smartflash describes itself as an “innovative technology development and licensing corporation” with “foundational” patents in data storage and access systems....
...This week Nintendo’s former leader died, Electronic Arts has a new chief executive and Grand Theft Auto V has set a new sales record....
...In one sign of this, it sold a group of patents to Mosaid Technologies, a Canadian patent licensing company that has been attacked in some quarters as one of the so-called “trolls” that have held big tech...
...Intelligent observers of the epic battles being fought by technology companies in US courtrooms concluded long ago that the country’s patent system is no longer fit for its constitutionally-enshrined purpose...
...These trends are exogenous to the company. So companies have to adjust their tools to continue to be productive within the ever-changing parameters of new technology....
...Samsung won a partial victory against Apple in South Korea in its legal battle over technology patients but that failed to lift the company’s stock price....
...of General Patent Corporation, a US patent licensing group....
...HTC last April moved to head off a possible second legal battle by signing a licensing agreement with Microsoft....
...Its decision earlier this year, for example, in Quanta Computer Inc v LG Electronics, presented its own procedural tangles, but the bottom line was that it reached the exact opposite result....
...Among leading electronics companies, Sony fell 7.1 per cent to Y3,150, Canon lost 6.1 per cent to Y3,820 and the games maker Nintendo was down 4.0 per cent to Y43,400....
...The only objects of this section were a pair of patents for remote electronic imaging that were held – full disclosure – by my client DataTreasury....
...This is particularly relevant for such companies in the Information Technology (IT) sector....
...The companies complain that Korean electronics company LG is using its patents to “shake down the entire computer industry for several billion dollars” in duplicated licensing fees on microprocessor chips...
...The business aviation side was boosted further after the company was bought in 1980 by Raytheon, the US defence and technology giant....
...In a special report on information technology, Fortune magazine listed the following “cool companies 1998”: Teligent, Reality Fusion, Autonomy, Check Point Software, Efusion, Dragon Systems, and E Ink.21...
...Sony investors reacted with calm to when a US court ruling that ordered the consumer electronics group to halt sales of its Playstation console in the US and pay $90m in damages to US technology group Immersion...
...It is also experimenting with new technology such as mobile phones and other hand-held electronic devices to create attractions with more add interactive appeal....
...The company, Infinite Data Storage, has just struck a licensing deal with Belkin Corporation, a major US supplier of electronic equipment, through which the IDS technology will be incorporated in Belkin’...
...Micap is a UK technology licensing company, specialising in the micro-encapsulation of active ingredients within yeast cells while Bioprogress is a supplier of delivery mechanisms for the pharmaceutical...
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