The LA start-up Proto now has a U.S. patent for its method of capturing people and subjects on a white screen and relaying that ... […]
LA-based digital signage CMS software firm Enplug has joined a list of big name tech companies in a joint letter to the U.S. House of Congress seeking patent reforms. […]
It’s unfair to be automatically dismissive of claims by Chinese companies that they have obtained patents on products, but entirely reasonable to be suspicious – given the history of copycat and counterfeit products that come by the container-load out of the country. […]
There has been a proliferation of hybrid/hand sanitizer kiosks coming on the market in the last few weeks, most of them looking almost exactly the same. Six months ago, these things were interesting but almost novelty products – something a media company might use, or a retailer looking to attract some shoppers to a screen, where promos are running. […]
The Dallas-based LED display and lighting products company Ultravision has filed a patent infringement complaint at the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), looking to get 37 companies barred from importing, selling or distributing what Ultravision considers infringing LED display products. […]
With the qualifier that my knowledge of international patent disputes is right up there with my depth of understanding of trends in women’s footwear, this nonetheless seems interesting – a U.S. LED display tech company winning a patent dispute with a Chinese competitor. […]
There are undoubtedly many, many times when C-suite people get the bill in from the company law firm, and wonder what the hell all those zeroes after a $ sign amounted to – but maybe not around Atlanta-based NanoLumens, which appears to have very gone 4 for 4 in its legal actions this summer with LED display competitors. […]
NanoLumens has filed a dismissal, without prejudice, on one of the patent infringement lawsuits it launched about a month ago against four U.S. competitors. The suit against Gable Signs & Graphics, Inc. […]
interior of an empty modern courtroom Atlanta LED manufacturer NanoLumens has filed four patent infringement lawsuits against competing companies it says are marketing knock-offs of its flexible LED display panels, called nixels. […]
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday is expected to increase the degree of difficulty for non-practicing entities – aka patent trolls – to sue technology companies over intellectual property claims. […]
When I had a long podcast chat with Rick Cope at InfoComm back in June, the founder and CEO of Nanolumens made it very clear he was about to go to legal war with a number of (mostly or all) Chinese manufacturers who were marketing LED display products that seem to borrow on Nano’s flexible designs. […]
Stephen Randall is the EVP Social and Mobile at the out of home media firm Monster Media. Randall was doing mobile operating systems before they were ever called smart, as a co-founder of Symbian. He then started LocaModa, which was doing visualizations of user-generated content as far back as 2005, before social media was even a thing. […]
In an interesting approach to patent dispute resolution, the out of home media company Monster Media and the social media visualization firm TINT have done a long-term patent and technology cross-licensing agreement. […]
A small Swedish company now has dozens of lawsuits circulating in the digital billboard industry, suing those media companies for patent infringement, based on a suite of patents related to using a computer to remotely control digital signs. The company is called T-Rex Property AB, and has been around since 2003. […]
Denver-based digital signage CMS company Four Winds Interactive has filed a lawsuit in Colorado to go after Silicon Valley-based 22 Miles over patent infringement, copyright infringement and something called Patent False Marking, in addition to other related claims. […]
