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...Both Chevron and Occidental are after Anadarko’s prized assets in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico, the heart of the US shale oil boom....
...PetroChina is applying for a domestic patent for a fracturing truck developed by one of its engineering units, which it tested in Sichuan in September....
...Taking the patent figures at face value, Samsung of South Korea leads the corporate pack, with 407 published graphene patents and patent applications, according to CambridgeIP....
...Bankruptcy We discussed this at some length on Monday because it reminded us of Texas Competitive Electric Holdings Company LLC (TCEH) in 2011....
...Entities like Round Rock Research, which assumed more than 4,000 patents from Micron Technologies; Mulltimedia Patent Trust, backed by Alcatel-Lucent; and Smartphones LLC, holder of a batch of former PalmSource...
...The Eastern District of Texas, where Motorola’s complaint was filed, was the second-most-favourable jurisdiction for patent owners who sued from 1995 to 2006, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP study...
...He joins EDS from Ponic, a Texas-based consultancy he founded in early 2006, and will be tasked with “driving growth, competitiveness and quality”....
...Mr Uchida said Canon, which files about 2,000 patents each year, had a “great respect for patents” and would “refrain from introducing a product until the final decision in the litigation”....
...The chips were deemed by the ITC to violate a patent held by rival Broadcom....
...This is the next big focus for global private firms including KKR, Blackstone, Carlyle and Texas Pacific....
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