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MARCH 11, 2015

San Diego-based Seashell Technology , a developer of nanotechnology in the nanowire area, has sold the technology, patents, and other rights to its silver nanowire technology to chemical giant BASF. Financial terms of the technology acquisition were not announced. Seasheel is led by David Schultz.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

San Diego-based Covario , the search engine optimization and search engine marketing software firm headed by Russ Mann, revealed this week that it has secured its first patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The firm said the patent covers technology used in its SEO Audit Score System.

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JULY 29, 2015

San Diego-based Qualcomm said today that it has inked a new patent license agreement with BRUSA , an automotive power electronics supplier. Qualcomm said the patent license covers its Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging (WEVC) technology, and allows BRUSA to commercialize WEVC systems for Plug-In Hybrid and Electric Vehicles.

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MARCH 26, 2013

San Diego-based RF semiconductor maker Peregrine Semiconductor announced Tuesday afternoon that it has filed a new, patent lawsuit against RF Micro Devices , alleging infringement on its patents. Peregrine already has a patent suit filed against RFMD, which it filed in February of last year. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

San Diego-based Illumina said today that it has been served with a complaint alleging patent infringement, from Carlsbad-based Life Technologies. The patents in questions are U.S. Patents 5,616,478; 5,958,698; and 6,001,568. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware.

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JULY 16, 2012

Two San Diego technology firms, SmartDrive Systems , and DriveCam , have settled a patent spat between the two companies this morning. According to the two, they have agreed to resolve all outstanding patent litigation and trade secret claims between the two companies. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

San Diego-based video software developer DivX has just filed another lawsuit against Los Angeles-based Hulu, alleging patent infringement for its video-streaming and playback technologies. DivX filed the lawsuit in the Ninth Circuit of the California Central District Court.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

San Diego-based tape backup and archive storage maker Overland Storage said Friday morning that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against three firms. The patents in question are US Patents 6,328,766 and 6,353,581. Tags: overland storage legal lawsuit patent. based in Irvine. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 24, 2010

San Diego-based Verimatrix , a developer of digital rights management (DRM) software for the set top box market, reported Tuesday that it has settled a patent dispute with competitor Widevine Technologies. Patent Nos. The patent lawsuit was filed in August of 2007. 7,165,175 and 7,376,831. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

San Diego-based Qualcomm , and Preh, GmbH , which is part of Joyson Electronics Group, said this morning that the two are in a new, wireless electric vehicle charging license agreement. Financial details of the licensing deal were not announced by the companies. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

San Diego-based Truvian , which is developing a benchtop, blood testing system to provide lab results for a number of health tests, said it has named Shane Bowen, Ph.D., Truvian says Bowen is the primary contributor to over 60 patent applications. as its Senior Vice President of Engineering. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

San Diego-based life sciences firm Illumina reports today that it has countersued Life Technologies , after Life and Applied Biosystems sued the firm in September over patent infringement. Illumina said that it has denied the allegations of patent infringement, and sued Life and Applied Biosystems over its own patents.

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JULY 29, 2009

San Diego-based Novatel Wireless is calling attention to its patent portfolio this morning, on the heels of the firm's continued launch of its personal Wi-Fi hotspot products, saying it now has five key patents covering the technology behind those products. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 7, 2013

San Diego-based Daylight Solutions , which develops infrared laser, molecular detection and imaging systems, reported this week that it has inked a license agreement with Corning. According to the firm, the license deal gives Corning Incorporated access to the company''s mid-infrared quantum cascade laser (QCL) technology.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

San Diego-based Qualcomm reported today that it has received $12.4M in attorney's fees, from Gabriel Technologies , which had sued Qualcomm over patent infringement claims. Gabriel had sued Qualcomm in October of 2008 over patents. Gabriel had sued Qualcomm in October of 2008 over patents. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 11, 2017

San Diego-based Qualcomm has filed an "answer and counterclaim" in response to the lawsuit from Apple Computer, saying that Apple's effort "devalue the fundamental Qualcomm technologies empowering the iPhone". Apple sued Qualcomm in January, claiming that Qualcomm was charging unfair amounts for licenses to its technology.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

San Diego-based Qualcomm announced yet another license deal in China over the weekend, this time with vivo Communication Technology Co.,

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MARCH 4, 2013

San Diego-based radio frequency chipmaker Peregrine Semiconductor said Monday afternoon that it is in a intellectual property deal with Murata.

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APRIL 1, 2016

San Diego-based Qualcomm reported a win today with electric vehicle charging consultant Ricardo. Qualcomm said that Ricardo, which provides engineering, strategic, technical and environmental consulting, has licensed its Qualcomm Halo patent portfolio, in order to commercialize systems for wireless electric vehicle charging.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor has sued two of its competitors, RF Micro Devices and Motorola Mobility , claiming patent infringement, the firm said this morning. District Court over the patents, which it says covers silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology for RF ICs. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 25, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm announced this morning that it has acquired a number of gesture recognition assets from GestureTek , a developer of gesture recognition technology. The firm is integrating that gesture recognition technology into its line of Snapdragon processors. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

The San Diego chipmaker said a Chinese court has ordered four Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) subsidiaries in China to stop the sale and import of seven iPhone models in that country. Qualcomm announced a win Monday in its ongoing and multijurisdictional legal battle with Apple. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm has made another investment in femtocell and picocell technology developer ip.access , as part of a new round of funding. Ip.access is using Qualcomm's technology, including its Femtocell Station Modem (FSM) chipsets and femtocell patents. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 18, 2019

Carlsbad-based ViaSat , which develops satellite communications and other wireless networking technology, has been awarded $49.3M Specifically, Viasat said the award came from Acacia's breach of contract and unauthorized use of its soft decision forward error correction (SDFEC) technology. in a lawsuit against Acacia Communications.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

San Diego-based AwarePoint has raised $4.0M, part of an ongoing, $10.4M The filing indicates the round is a convertible round for the company, and includes JAFCO Technology Partners, Venrock, Cardinal Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Vanguard Health Systems, among others. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2015

San Diego-based Qualcomm said late Monday that it will pay $975 million to China, to settle China''s claims that the company had violated its anti-monopoly laws. Qualcomm reached the record payment after a resolution with China''s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).

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JUNE 17, 2013

San Diego-based Imprimis Pharmaceuticals said this morning that it has licensed a set of intellectual property assets, from Buderer Drug Company. Imprimis said it is developing innovations based on technology from the compounding pharmacy operations of Buderer. Financial details of the licensing deal were not announced.

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MARCH 22, 2018

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

The Next 10 report found that California accounted for 24 percent of total global investment in clean technology, with a total of $11.6 According to the report , both Los Angeles and the Bay Are were identified as green manufacturing job leaders, with nearly 10,000 jobs in the sector in each region.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

San Diego-based Cibus Global , a developer of technology for engineering agricultural crops, has raised $1.16M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Tuesday. The funding appears to be part of an ongoing, $2.6M fundraising by the firm.

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MAY 5, 2010

GoTV Networks said it will acquire the library of HOMBRE applications, client and server technologies, and patents, and will also hire HOMBRE's employees in San Francisco and San Diego. As part of the acquisition, the firm said it has named Scott Scherer as SVP of Product Development and Technology for the firm.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

In the report--which evaluated current and historical job postings, early stage and public market investment activity, clean tech patents, and other factors--The LA-Riverside-OC Metro ranked just behind San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, nationwide, in clean tech jobs. San Diego ranked at number 11.

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JULY 17, 2009

San Diego-based Kyocera , including Kyocera Corp, Kyocera Wireless Corp, and Kyocera Communications Inc. SPH and Kyocera were engaged in a patent lawsuit battle over technology used in Kyocera's cell phone products. Tags: kyocera america wireless cell phone legal patent lawsuit. Kyocera Corp., Civil Action No.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The long running patent feud over CRISPR-Cs9 gene editing appears to be over, just as U.S. biotech companies gear up for the first human tests of the landmark technology. This week, a federal appeals court upheld a previous ruling handing a CRISPR-Cas9 patent to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

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DECEMBER 23, 2008

San Diego-based Qualcomm announced Monday that it has signed on Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Beijing Tianyu Communications Equipment Co., Qualcomm has given Tianyu a worldwide patent license for its CDMA2000 and WCDMA technology. Financial terms of the royalty deal were not given.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. What does Confident Technologies do? We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

This week our guest is Nathan Myhrvold , the former Microsoft chief technology officer who, since 2000, has headed Intellectual Ventures, a Bellevue, WA-based firm that buys, develops, and licenses technology patents and other intellectual property.

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