BOSTON, MA — (Marketwired) — 03/16/16 — (OTCQB: WDDD) has filed replies to the six Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) instituted by the United States Patent & Trademark Office–s (USPTO) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) at the request of petitioner Bungie Inc. The Worlds patents subject to the IPRs are also at the center of a patent infringement filed by Worlds against Activision Blizzard Inc. et al. According to the , Bungie Inc. has a multi-year contract with Activision and Activision h
BOSTON, MA — (Marketwired) — 03/03/16 — announced today that has joined the firm as a partner in its Intellectual Property (IP) Group. Pysher has over 20 years of experience in patent prosecution. He was previously a principal in the Boston office of Fish & Richardson.Pysher will join a team of nearly 40 IP attorneys, patent agents, and staff scientists at Choate, where he will focus his practice on prosecution, diligence, and opinion work in a wide variety of technologies including el
REDWOOD CITY, CA — (Marketwired) — 03/01/16 — Fish & Richardson today announced that the $139.8 million damages verdict it won for client Power Integrations in December 2015 has been named one of California–s "Top 10 Plaintiffs– Verdicts" of 2015 by The Daily Journal. The verdict was the second largest reported jury verdict in all areas of law in California in 2015, and The Daily Journal called the win a "vindication for San Jose-based Power Integrations."The patent
AGOURA HILLS, CA — (Marketwired) — 02/02/16 — On summary judgment, Judge Dean D. Pregerson, U.S. District Court judge for the Central District of California, has ruled that Blueprint RF–s Dominion gateways infringe –s U.S. Patent No. 8,156,246. This Nomadix patent protects key technology for redirecting user computers to captive portal pages. In the same ruling, Judge Pregerson upheld the validity of Nomadix–s patents — rejecting all of the arguments that Blueprint RF crafted to challeng
BOSTON, MA — (Marketwired) — 12/28/15 — Fish & Richardson today announced that it has won a $139.8 million damages verdict for client Power Integrations in its patent-infringement lawsuit against Fairchild Semiconductor. The case was a retrial on damages only, after Fish–s $105 million jury win for Power Integrations in March 2014 was set aside because of an intervening change in Federal Circuit law. On December 17, 2015, a Northern District of California jury found — after less than o
LOS ANGELES, CA — (Marketwired) — 09/14/15 — (PFT) is pleased to announce that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent expanding upon the company–s existing patents for its part of PFT–s CLEAR Media ERP Suite. This patent strengthens and broadens PFT–s intellectual property around file based workflows and Digital Dailies®.The new patent, issued as U.S. Patent No. 12,976,929 is for "a system and method for media content collaboration throughout a media
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 08/14/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) Since 2005, Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has counted 5,497 breaches through August 11, 2015, involving more than 818 million records within the United States.What is most disturbing with this number of individual illegal data collection breaches is that a growing percentage have not just exposed credit card details but individual identity information such as social security numbers. With social security number
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 08/10/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) U.S. fraud losses equalled 12.75 cents for every $100 in total volume last year. Global payment card fraud, grew by 19%, which outpaced transaction volume growth that grew by only 15% according to a report published by The Nelson Report.What is concerning is even after the increased usage globally of EMV chip cards designed to make card fraud more difficult, the actual fraud rate over card transaction card growth incre
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 08/07/15 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME), the creator of the fingerprint biometric protected credit and debit cards is developing a credit card that has the cards security code or why is called a CVV number activated following the cards users fingerprint match.The SmartMetric biometric fingerprint authentication system works with EMV chip cards with the EMV chip turned on only after a successful fingerprint scan and match with the card user. SmartMetric has c
