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APRIL 24, 2009

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JULY 30, 2020

Los Angeles-based video sharing app Triller --which competes directly against the more popular TikTok , has sued TikTok over patent infringement. Triller--led by CEO Mike Lu--said tht TikTok is infringing on its patent stitching together multiple music videos with a single audio track. The patent infringement suit was filed in the U.S.

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JULY 30, 2010

Irvine-based Uniloc USA , a firm which develops anti-fraud technology based on physical device recognition, said this morning that it has filed a patent infringement suit against Sony America, McAfee, Activision, Quark, Aspyr Media, and Borland Software. Tags: uniloc patent infringement physical security fraud legal.

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MARCH 10, 2020

Los Angeles-based short-form streaming media startup Quibi , founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, has sued a competitor--Interlude US Inc, which runs the interactive multimedia entertainment service Eko , saying that it has "embarked on a campaign of threats and harassment to coerce money or a licensing deal from Quibi".

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Ahead of its IPO, Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online domain name and media publishing business run by Richard Rosenblatt, updated its IPO filings Thursday, saying that it has granted $30.8M Tags: demand media domain domainer content merger acquisition legitscript. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Burbank-based CEIVA Logic , a developer of Internet-connected, digital photo frames, said this week that a Los Angeles Federal District Court has ruled that competitor Frame Media's products infringe on one of its patents, relating to its digital photo sharing system. Patent, No., 65,442,573, owned by the company. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 8, 2009

According to EdgeCast, the IP deal grants the firm a license for more than thirty issued and pending patents, covering display and delivery of rich media; automated hosting and server management; load balancing; dynamic DNS, and other technology. The firm said the patents date from as early as 1994. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 22, 2009

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JULY 28, 2011

PacketVideo appears to be suing Spotify over patent infringement, over a patent it holds covering the transmission of digital music information over a communications network. PacketVideo's software was used for streaing media to home consumer electronics devices. NextWave Wireless sold PacketVideo to DOCOMO in August of 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Irvine-based Uniloc USA the technology firm which filed suit against Sony America, McAfee, Activision, Quark, Aspyr Media, and Borland Software in July over its patents, is ramping up its patent lawsuits, saying today that it has filed suit against Adobe Systems Inc., Tags: uniloc patent legal lawsuit security.

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MAY 5, 2016

Pasadena-based mobile ad measurement platform developer UberMedia , one of the companies out of Idealab, has released a new, mobile attribution product that tracks cross-media advertisement and correlates that to foot traffic in stores. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 2, 2014

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MARCH 18, 2010

HP, which had filed a complaint with the ITC in September of last year, said that it has settled with Canoga Park-based InkPlusToner.com and City of Industry-based Comptree Inc , which runs the Meritline, ABCInk, EZ Label, and CDR DVDR Media businesses. Tags: inkjet cartridge patent lawsuit import.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. The second ones are media brand and companies and we have several of those brands on our platform. For the first three years, it was all about research and development, building IP and patents and so forth.

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JULY 18, 2012

Allison Dollar: SnapCuts is a digital media marketing platform, which uses social video messaging. The rest of our team comes out of the film, television, streaming media, and startup world, mostly in the interactive entertainment world. What is the SnapCuts service? Where are you in terms of launch?

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. Media and Entertainment has seen more barriers to entry being broken down. What was the biggest news for you this year?

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MARCH 28, 2014

Asher Delug: Airpush is a mobile ad network, similar to an Admob or Millenial Media. Asher Delug: We have had amazing growth coming from our smart wall product, our inter-app interstitial ad product, which patent pending. We called 2011 and 2012 the years of shotgun media buying. What has been driving that growth?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. We now have a team of nine engineers and scientists, with experience from companies like IBM, Demand Media, and Google, all part of our core engineering team.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

They are looking for early-stage companies, which have an advantage with IP, or some sort of patent, or sensibility from the technical perspective. In New York, for example, there are a lot of very strong fintech, fashion technology and media companies. The deal flow really depends on what's going on in a particular city.

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MARCH 27, 2015

Tyler Francois: urRadio is an all new, social media app, which allows you to host your own Internet radio station. You also have a vast number of people in the social world, the YouTubers, the Viners, the podcasters, who have all made a living and career, and enjoy being a personality on social media. What is urRadio?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

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APRIL 26, 2011

There's a fairly complex platform we've patented. For the last three months, we've been working very closely with people in technology, finance, media, entertainment and consumer goods. At the same time, to make all that complexity work, we had to make it simple.

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JUNE 15, 2011

Eric Frankel: StarGreetz is a digital media content company, that allows brands to stand out in a very cluttered marketplace. We've been innovating over the last fifteen months, and have to patents pending on the technology right now. For our readers who haven't yet heard of your company, what's the idea behind StarGreetz?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. You might know Demand Media better as the people behind Cracked, DailyPuppy, and GolfLink. It also won a number of key patents bit.ly/RiJCFI The iPad mini?

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

Some of the technical expertise resides here--we found some very brilliant acoustic engineers at UCLA who are doing a big chunk of the processing--and we in fact think we've done something sufficiently interesting that we have some patents in provisional state, and we hope to lock that down in the next year or two.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

They can put themselves and their friends into the media and the digital experience. There's been an unusually complex amount of engineering, compared to a web media startup, but that's a good thing. Unlike most web media firms, we've got a real, protectable IP, based on serious computer science, three patents, and five more pending.

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MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. Alan Chaney is our Chief Architect, and ran Olivetti Resaerch in the UK.

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JUNE 16, 2010

My partner and I, Cliff Elion, have a patent pending neck technology, which enables the guitar to be made at a very accessible price point, and also have probably more functionality and connectivity than any device in history. So, they're incredible with the hand-eye coordination, but can't play anything for real on a guitar.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

We've created a patent pending technology called Autobuild. It was very trackable, and very measurable, and I thought that there was data you could use to drive media planning decisions. I obviously knew nothing about media--I was a finance guy--and that became completely evident when we starting trying to sell software to agencies.

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JUNE 23, 2011

An example is one we recently launched with Virgin Mobile and Katy Perry, where we allow people to volunteer to help youth homelessness, track that with our patent-pending cause tracking and rewards systems, and where those volunteers can get tickets to a concert. However, you'll never see that in the media. You need a third profile.

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JUNE 25, 2009

We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. We've got patents on technology that helps save bandwidth utilized for VoIP calls and particularly for video.

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MAY 14, 2010

If you measure it in terms of patents generated, measure it in terms of the number of technical jobs per 100,000 residents--it's very high on all analytical measurements. We also have panel discussions on clean tech, life sciences, gaming, information technology, and digital media.

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APRIL 28, 2010

My co-founder, Michael Steuer and myself both came from Twistbox, which was later acquired by Mandalay Media. Dave Waldman: While creating our email product, we'd done quite a bit of work on patenting the processes we were going through, and liked the concept of private messaging. What's the idea behind the Twitter support?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

At GRP, we don't care about patents--they're nice to have, but not required--but we're looking for defensible IP in an area with an interesting, and big, idea. That's what we're looking for--really big ideas, plus I'd echo everything Richard said. Defensibility is also big--we're not interested in the me-too's without some unique IP.

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