has sold off a number of patents relating to the repossession of automobiles, according to buyer ProconGPS. ProconGPS said it has acquired patents covering repossession of automobiles in the vehicle finance industry from CalAmp, relating to the use of Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) technology in tracking vehicles, to make it easier to confiscate and repossess those vehicles in a loan default. calamp vehicle patent reposession locationOxnard-based CalAmp Corp. MORE

Irvine-based RFaxis , the semiconductor startup headed by Mike Neshat, reported Thursday that the firm has just received four patents for its technology. The firm said it now has had more than 30 patents filed for its architecture of its RF, front-end integrated circuits. The firm did not details the patents, however, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows that patents No. All four patents name Oleksandr Gorbachov -- the firm's CTO -- as the inventor. MORE

Pasadena-based Jacobs Engineering Group said this morning that it has acquired the patent rights to a process for removing sulfuric acid from gases from Bayer AG. jacobs bayer sulfuric acid merger acquisition technology patent process chemicalsFinancial terms of the technology buy were not announced. MORE

Even fewer might not be aware that they might just owe some thanks to the firm, after it scored a patent win against a so-called "patent troll" which was plaguing dozens of online retailers, demanding licensing terms for using shopping card technology it said it owned the rights to. MORE

GenMark said it has been granted a non-exclusive license to PerkinElmer's microfluidics patent portfolio. lifescience diagnostics molecular perkinelmer licensing patent genmarkCarlsbad-based GenMark Diagnostics , the developer of molecular diagnostics testing systems, reported this morning that it is in a licensing agreement with PerkinElemer. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. GenMark said the deal will provide it with "maximum flexibility" to expand its platform. MORE

Santa Monica-based Activision Blizzard reported a win in court late Thursday, saying that the United States District Court, Central District of California has invalidated all patent claims asserted by McRO, Inc. Activision said it will "aggressively defend" its investments in its franchises from "entities whose sole purpose is to use patent litigation to hold innovative companies captive for monetary gain." MORE

San Diego-based Qualcomm announced on Sunday that it has signed a 3G and 4G patent license agreement with Smartron India Private Limited , which will allow Smartron to develop, manufacture and sell WCDMA, CDMA2000, and 4G LTE devices. Financial details of the patent deal were not announced. qualcomm india patent licensing license telecom wcdma cdma2000 MORE

San Diego-based Novatel Wireless , the maker of the MiFi mobile hotspot products, reported this morning that it has gained a patent covering that product and its other products. Patent No. The patent filing shows that the patent was awarded to Slim S. The patent was issued on June 26th, and was originally filed on August 28, 2006. The filing indicates the patent filing was made for Novatel by AlbertDhand LLP. patents and 58 filed U.S> MORE

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. The patent number is 7,877,392. Patent and Trademark Office, inventors on the patent include Ray Grieselhuber, Brian Bartell, Dema Zlotin, and Russ Mann. MORE

San Diego-based a href="[link] , the developer of camera-based, driver safety and monitoring systems, said Wednesday that it received five patents in 2013, and filed applications for an additional, 18 patents on its technology. MORE

acquires geofilter patent from Mobi for $7.7 Snap Inc. Million, Hyperloop One’s Chief Marketing Officer Kimberly Salzer leaves for Ozobot, and CalTech, UCLA ranked top universities for technology transfer MORE

Goleta-based Transphorm , the developer of Gallium Nitride (GaN) power conversion technology, reports that it has scored two patents covering its technology. The company said the two patents are number 8,816,751 titled "Inductive Load Power Switching Circuits", and patent application 13/887,204 titled "Bridge Circuits and Their Components", which it describes as "landmark patents" for its technology. The second patent application was filed on May 3, 20`13. MORE

Acacia Research , the patent and licensing firm which aggressively licenses its portfolio of patents to technology companies, said Monday that it has acquired 7 medtech patent portfolios, comprising over 150 patents and pending applications. The firm said the patents are related to medical devices, biologics and diagnostic techniques. Acacia owns a wide range of patents, and regularly pursues companies for licensing terms covering those patents. MORE

Los Angeles-based RPost , which operates a service to encrypt email and electronically capture documents and electronic signatures, said today that one of its patents was validated by a California Federal Court, a move it says will help it in a number of lawsuits it has filed against Adobe-Echosign, DocuSign, Swiss Post, Canada Post, Zix Corporation, RightSignature, Farmers Insurance, Telarix, Trustifi, among others. RPost claims it has 35 patents covering electronic signatures. MORE

Irvine-based Netlist , a designer of memory subsystems, said this morning that it has scored a win over high speed semiconductor maker Inphi , after a court dismissed a patent infringement lawsuit against the company. Central District of California, Western Division has dismissed an Inphi vs. Netlist patent infringement lawsuit without prejudice, which was originally filed on November 30, 2009. netlist inphi patent legal lawsuit intellectual property MORE

Carpinteria-based Celerus Diagnostics , which develops cancer diganostics equipment for pathologists, announced today that it has been issued three patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The firm said the patents cover key technology behind its Rapid IHC system for immunohistochemistry. Celerus did not say what three patents it was issued. The firm has five patents pending, according to the U.S. Patent No. Patent No. MORE

Carlsbad-based Verdezyne , the venture backed developer of biofuels technology, said today that it has been granted a United States Patent. The firm said the patent, No. The patent was filed on March 11, 2011. MORE

Irvine-based Broadcom Corporation reports this morning that it has scored a win in a patent infringement suit it filed against Emulex , where it had accused Emulex of infringing on two of its patents. Emulex had not issued any statements about the patent suit as of early this morning. MORE

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. The company says it now has over 60 domestic and international filed patent applications. bradstreet credibility dandb patent verification reputation legal business credit rating Los Angeles-based Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. MORE

Costa Mesa-based Emulex reported Thursday afternoon that it has been ordered to pay $387,922 to Irvine-based Broadcom , in a partial verdict in a patent infringement lawsuit. District Court for the Central District of California, which found that certain serial/deserializers used by Emulex infringed upon patents owned by Broadcom. emulex broadcom patent infringement legal lawsuit trial serdes MORE

Patent. Patent 7,945,034 for the technology behind its PhoneID verification technology. Inventors on TeleSign's patent were Schlomo Gonen, Jonathan Gonen, Alon Gonen, and Danny Rosen. The patent was originally filed in October of 2005. telesign phone multi factor authentication steve jillings patent legal MORE

The patents owned by Caltech are U.S. Patent's 7,116,710, 7,421,032, 7,916,781 and 8,284,833. apple caltech patent infringement lawsuit wifi wireless 802.11n legal courts broadcom avagoPasadena-based Caltech has sued both Apple Computer and Broadcom over their use of technology used in Wi-Fi networking. According to the lawsuit, The California Institute of Technology v. MORE

Los Angeles-based TeleSign , the provider of Internet fraud prevention and authentication services led by Steve Jillings, said Monday that it has been awarded a patent. Patent and Trademark Office, inventor of the patent was Schlomo Gonen. MORE

Goleta-based Resonant , which develops technology used for radio frequency (RF) filtering, says that it has just surpassed 125 issued and pending patents covering its technology. The company aid the two latest patents, issued on March 28th, were US Patent No.: 9,608,595, "Acoustic wave filters with enhanced rejection" and US Patent No.: MORE

San Diego-based KFx Medical said late Wednesday that it has received $35M in a payment, related to the company's patent infringement suite against Arthrex. The payment is related to a jury award which found that Arthrex had infringed upon a patent owned by KFx. That patent infringement lawsuit was filed in 2011, but only recently completed its journey through the legal system. medical patent legal intellectual property arthrex biotech lifescience MORE

Patent for its technology. The company said that it received US Patent 8,819,230 for a Virtual Private Storage Array service for cloud servers. The patent was filed on November 5, 2011, and names CEO Nelson Nahum, along with Yair Hershko, Yoav Ossia, Shyam Kaushik, Lev Vainblat, Alex Lyakas, Moshe Melnikov, and Vladamir Popovski as inventors. The company was represented by Patent Law Group LLP in the patent filing. MORE

Santa Ana-based Powerwave Technologies , which develops wireless products, has launched a patent lawsuit against Microelectronics Technology, Inc. According to Powerwave, it filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Southern Division, claiming that MTI is infringing on one of its patents. The patent in question is U.S. Patent 6,818,477, covering printed circuit board technology. MORE

Santa Barbara-based Sonos , the developer of whole-home music streaming systems, has declared victory in a patent infringement suit, which had been filed against the firm in 2012. Sonos said it has declared victory in a case filed by a "patent troll" in 2012, in what it says was a "major victory" for the company in helping the company and others fight back against "baseless assertions" by patent assertion entities (PAE). MORE

Irvine-based Masimo , the maker of pulse oximetry and other medical monitoring devices, has been sued for patent infringement by competitor Essential Medical Devices, Inc. According to a filing in the Delaware District Court Friday, Essential Medical Devices alleges that Masimo is infringing on a patent owned by the company. masimo lifescience life medical devices lawsuit patent pulse oximetry MORE

KFx Medical said its new patent infringement lawsuit comes as a direct response to another, lawsuit, filed by Arthrex earlier this year against KFx Medical, alleging misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, breach of contract and conspiracy. The long and complicated trail of lawsuits recently ccame after a federal appeals court confirmed a verdict awarding KFx Medical $35M in damages from Arthrex over patent infringement. MORE

patent, covering the company's genetic sequence derived from soybean, which is aimed at producing improved soybean varieties. The company says it now has approximately 85 issued patents and numerous patent applications. The new patent, U.S. Patent No. ‌in the patent filing. ceres soybean gene genetic patent uspto agriculture biotech biotechnology seed MORE

City of Industry-based Newegg , the online electronics retailer, has scored a win in a patent lawsuit after a jury invalidated a patent held by Alcatel-Lucent USA. newegg patent legal lawsuit alcatel lucent troll MORE

Carlsbad-based KFX Medical , which is developing bone implant products for the orthopedic surgery market, reported today that it has received a third patent. The patent, U.S. Patent No. The patent was filed on September 26, 2011, and names Michael L. KFX said the quick turnaround time came via participation in the USPTO Patent Accelerated Examination Program. The patent is a continuation of a patent originally filed by the company in 2004. MORE

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. Volfoni announced the two had agreed to drop the patent lawsuit, and denied patent infringement on RealD''s products--and also said that RealD did not have any international patents for the U.S. MORE

Los Angeles-based online retailer Newegg said this morning that it has scored another win over what it called a "patent troll"--and has launched a 24-hour flash sale on its site in celebration. Newegg said it won a patent infringement lawsuit file against the company by TQP Development, which had claimed Newegg infringed upon a patent covering basic online encryption. newegg patent infringement lawsuit legal flash sale MORE

Irvine-based HDTV manufacturer VIZIO said this morning that it has licensed its digital TV patent portfolio to Westinghouse Digital LLC , a manufacturer of HDTVs, settling a patent dispute between the companies. vizio westinghouse digital television patent legalFinancial terms of the deal were not disclosed, however, VIZIO said that Westinghouse has agreed to make royalty payments to VIZIO for sales of licensed products. READ MORE>>. MORE