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*A small Indiana company has sued tech heavyweights Microsoft, Apple, and Google, claiming that it holds the patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating systems to show users small snapshots of the files before they are opened.
*Cygnus Systems sued the three companies on Wednesday saying that they infringed on its patent with products such as Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 8 and Google Chrome, which allow users to view preview images of documents on the computer. Mac OS X, the iPhone and Safari also infringe, the company said in court filings. Apple uses this technology in its Finder and Cover Flow Mac OS X features, the filings state.
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*Samsung Electronics has reportedly been ordered to pay compensation of US$7.3 million to Holley Communications (a Chinese company) for violating a patent for a dual-mode cell phone.
*The patent has been filed by Holleycomm on January 15th. 2002—Method and Devices of CDMA/GSM Dual-mode Mobile Communication (patent No. ZL0210174.4)—has basically covered the design ideas and realization methods of main hardware of GSM/CDMA Dual-mode communication products.
*Samsung has sold more than 700,000 cellphones that contain Holley’s patented technologies. The patents are still on sale. The compensation is only part of the sales
*The 20-month patent dispute started when Holley filed the lawsuit in April 2007, calling for a stop of the violation and seeking compensation.
*A month later, Sumsung requested that China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) declare that the patent was invalid.
*The court opened the session in May this year after the SIPO made a response to declare it valid.