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They include a dispute with Washington-based patent portfolio owner SoftVault Systems, which alleges RIM has infringed its anti-piracy DRM (digital rights management) technologies.
BBC: Nokia seeks Blackberry sales bans after patent dispute
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Ending patent protection usually requires a law suit, because the patent owner files follow-on patents of lesser merit to extend the patent period, and a court has to decide at what point the incremental patents are invalid.
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May 5, 2005 - TiVo (and OEM Humax) are named in a patent-infringement lawsuit by EchoStar, owner of Dish Network.
ENGADGET: TiVo Deathwatch
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By law, any patents that are deemed to be necessary to make a standards compliant product must be licensed by the patent owner at fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms.
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That adds one more year that the brand owner can be selling on a 20-year patent.
FORBES: Ghost cars, ghost brands
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One roadblock to synthbio's future is the messed-up patent environment in biotech, where every tiny protein pathway and gene sequence has an owner wanting to get paid.
FORBES: Drew Endy aims to reinvent the biotechnology industry.