patent infringement lawsuit

Spotify launched in the United States less than two weeks ago and it is already the target of a patent infringement lawsuit.

A firm called PacketVideo is suing and alleges that Spotify is infringing on patent 5,646,276 for “a device for the distribution of music information in digital form.”

Netlist Inc. (Nasdaq: NLST) 23% LOWER; Inphi Corporation has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Netlist in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Inphi's lawsuit alleges that Netlist's DDR3 Registered memory modules, including their recently announced HyperCloud(TM), infringe on the following Inphi U.S.

Patents: No: 7,307,863 and 7,479,799. The patents relate to memory interface technologies used in enterprise server and storage applications.

Cutera, Inc.

Medical device maker Medtronic says its profit fell 38 percent in the fiscal first quarter after it paid rival Abbott Laboratories to resolve a patent infringement lawsuit.

Shares of Align Technology Inc. jumped Monday after the dental products company settled a patent infringement lawsuit regarding its Invisalign teeth-straightening system.

Star Scientific, Inc. (Nasdaq: STSI) 76.4% LOWER; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (NYSE: RAI) today announced a jury verdict in favor of the company in a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Star Scientific in the U.S.

District Court for Maryland - Northern Division. Click here for the full report.

Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Dish Network Corp. said Wednesday that a federal appeals court has temporarily set aside a lower court's ruling that favored TiVo Inc. in a long-running patent infringement lawsuit between the two companies.