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JULY 22, 2014

Los Angeles-based online e-commerce retailer Newegg is trumpeting a new patent victory, saying that a "notorious troll" has been ordered to pay the company''s cost in a patent ruling. 6,128,415, a patent which covered the idea of tagging information about an image. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 22, 2011

Los Angeles-based TeleSign , the provider of phone-based authentication and verification services which is headed by former FrontBridge and Vantage Media CEO Steve Jillings, said today that it has scored a U.S. Patent 7,945,034 for the technology behind its PhoneID verification technology.

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MAY 22, 2015

Los Angeles-based 3D movie projection technology developer RealD has filed a patent infringement suit in Paris, saying that a 3D manufacturer and cinema operator are infringing upon a European patent. The company said the lawsuit was filed with the Paris First Instance Court, and covers European patent.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Los Angeles-based GoodSearch.com , the online search engine which shares its advertising revenues with charities, said Tuesday that it has received a patent on its technology. According to the firm, it has received patent number 7,769,738 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 18, 2014

Los Angeles-based 3D movie projection technology developer RealD has dropped a patent infringement lawsuit it had filed against competitor Volfoni , however, is threatening to sue Volfoni if it ever tries to sell its products in the United States. patents at the heart of the lawsuit. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 1, 2014

Los Angeles-based Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. patents, bringing its total patents to 15. Details on the new patents were not announced. the new patents cover everything from business scoring to ts verification and reputation products. reported yesterday that it has been granted five new, U.S.

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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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DECEMBER 20, 2017

Los Angeles-based 3D movie projection technology developer RealD has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against two companies in Germany, Volfoni and CinemaNext , allegig the two are infringing on a number of its patents. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 26, 2021

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, SPINN, developing a fully automated, mobile- or voice-controlled coffee maker which grinds beans, heats water, and brews coffee for users, said on Monday that it has raised $20M in a funding round. The funding was led by Spark Capital, and also included Amazon's Alexa Fund, Bar 9 Ventures and others.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

finds that the Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County metro is number two on the list of geographies with the most clean-tech job activity. Tags: angeles clean technology cleantech green jobs. A report released this week from analyst firm Clean Edge, Inc., San Diego ranked at number 11.

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MAY 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based Topanga Technologies , the developer of solid state, plasma lighting products, said Wednesday that it has added Gregg Hollingsworth as its Vice President of Engineering. Topanga Technologies said that Hollingsworth holds 14 pending patents in the RF electrodeless plasma lamp area. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Los Angeles-based Stamps.com , which operates an Internet-based postage service, has scored a new patent, covering the firm's cryptography systems. The patent, number 7,490,065, was granted to Craig L. The patent was granted Tuesday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, according to the patent filing.

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JUNE 8, 2009

Los Angeles-based EdgeCast Networks , a provider of content delivery networking services, is announcing today that it has inked an intellectual property licensing agreement with Web.com. The firm said the patents date from as early as 1994. Tags: edgecast patent legal licensing web.com music content delivery network.

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DECEMBER 19, 2008

Los Angeles-based j2 Global Communications, which provides online FAX and related services, announced Thursday that it has received validation of two of the firm's patents, covering the firm's FAX technology. According to the firm, the U.S. j2 said that it now owns 58 U.S.

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APRIL 23, 2009

Irvine-based Autobytel , Los Angeles-based LeadPoint , and El Segundo-based Internet Brands have settled a multi-party, patent lawsuit that was filed by Autobytel against the other firms. Patent, 6,282,517, covering lead technology, and had been filed in Texas. The lawsuit was over Autobytel's U.S. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

Los Angeles-based subscription razor startup Dollar Shave Club has been sued by razor giant Gillette , which claims that Dollar Shave Club is infringing upon Gillette's patents. According to Gillette, is is seeking both damages and an injunction to prevent Dollar Shave Club from selling any products infringe upon its technology.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Based in Los Angeles, AppOnboard sees itself as one of a new breed of LA startup that’s steeping itself in the local ecosystem and trying to be one of the cornerstone’s for a new technology hub in the southern California region. “Google has been a great partner for us,” Zweig says.

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MARCH 27, 2014

Los Angeles-based 3D movie projection technology provider RealD has filed two, separate patent infringement lawsuits, the company said late Wednesday. lawsuit legal patent property intellectual court volfoni projection movie masterimage3d masterimage reald' READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Los Angeles-based Move, Inc., which operates the Move.com, REALTOR.com, and other related web sites, announced this morning that it has scored a win in a patent case. Move had been sued by Kevin Keithley and TREN Technologies Holdings over a patent, 5,584,025, covering the display of real estate information from a database.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

A new, Los Angeles area startup launched this morning, hoping to use the power of the crowd to help take ideas to launch. JumpStartFund comes out of the Girvan Institute of Technology, a Los Angeles startup incubator and accelerators for early-stage high-tech companies. READ MORE>>.

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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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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Los Angeles-based transportation technology developer HyperLoop One continues to fall deeper into the rabbit hole, out of its carefully crafted image of reality and into the alternative reality of back-and-forth legal proceedings against its former CTO and co-founder, Brogan BamBrogan. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Cyborg Industries said yesterday that it has launched a "revolutionary, patented data transfer technology" called the Spectrocable, developed by 14-year old high school sophomore Nicolas Dupont. cyborg industries techweek angeles startup high school' The company is based in Florida. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Los Angeles-based OnGreen , the operator of an online marketplace for green technology and clean technology businesses and projects, said Thursday that it is in a marketing partnership with the University of Southern California's Stevens Institute for Innovation. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 6, 2016

Los Angeles-based Acuant , a developer of identity management and identity verification technology, said this morning that it has acquired AssureTec Technologies , a provider of identity, document authentication, and data capture products. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Los Angeles-based OnGreen , the online green business marketplace headed by Nikhil Jain, said Wednesday that it has snagged Erik Steeb as the firm's new Vice President of Business Development. Steeb was most recently the Regional Director for Cleantech Open, and had been active in outreach to the Los Angeles clean technology industry.

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MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

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. The Next 10 report found that California accounted for 24 percent of total global investment in clean technology, with a total of $11.6

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

Music Prodigy , a Los Angeles based music education technology firm serious on improving the way people learn, play and interact with music beat over 70 startups with their app Rock Prodigy to win the Silicon Beach Awards. How It Works. Winning the USC’s Silicon Beach Awards however is not their only accomplishment.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

A new, Los Angeles area startup, JumpStartFund (www.jumpstartfund.com) recently launched, offering up a combination of crowdfunding and crowd-advice for entrepreneurial ideas. Dirk Ahlborn: We are coming out of the nonprofit incubator, the Girvan Institute of Technology, which has been around since 2002, and is funded by NASA Ames.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based j2 Global Communications has filed a lawsuit against competitor OneSuite , which is also based in Los Angeles, according to a filing by the firm in the California Central District Court. Tags: legal lawsuit patent voip telephony onesuite communicaitons global.

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MAY 5, 2010

Los Angeles-based GoTV Networks , a developer of mobile applications, said today that it has acquired the HOMBRE (Hands-On Mobile Binary Runtime Environment) division of Hands-On Mobile Inc. 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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AUGUST 12, 2019

The Vinetta Project (www.vinettaproject.com), a group which is focused on helping to accelerate the growth of female-led startups, announced a few weeks ago that it is working with P&G Ventures, the internal "startup studio" of Procter and Gamble on an effort to help female-led companies in Los Angeles. What is The Vinetta Project?

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based Vyclone (www.vyclone.com) has created a mobile application which lets users capture videos, and automatically edits and combines multiple points of view from people nearby, and remixes it into an even more compelling video. The last I sold was in 2004, when I relocated to Los Angeles.

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MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Thats not Los Angeles. Okay, maybe not Pauly Shore.

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