July 26, 2021
A Delaware federal judge who previously told patent licensing company Intellectual Ventures to pay Trend Micro $444,000 in attorney fees for a failed email filtering patent suit ruled Monday that no fee award is warranted, after the Federal Circuit criticized his earlier holding.
September 25, 2018
A Delaware federal judge on Monday ordered nonpracticing entity Intellectual Ventures LLC to pay more than $400,000 of computer security company Trend Micro Inc.'s legal fees, based on an "unusual" circumstance of an expert witness changing his position during a trial and later admitting he had done so.
August 31, 2017
A Delaware federal judge ruled Thursday that nonpracticing entity Intellectual Ventures LLC should cover a portion of computer security company Trend Micro Inc.'s legal fees, based on an "unusual" circumstance of an expert witness changing his position during a patent trial and later admitting he had done so.
April 22, 2015
A Delaware federal judge on Wednesday held that two Intellectual Ventures LLC antivirus patents are invalid for claiming abstract ideas, likely slashing a $17 million infringement verdict against Symantec Corp. and shutting down an upcoming trial against Trend Micro Inc.
April 10, 2015
Security software companies Trend Micro Inc. and Symantec Corp. pushed a Delaware federal court Friday to invalidate the antivirus patents Intellectual Ventures claims they infringed, a move that has the potential to halt Trend Micro's upcoming trial and unwind a $17 million jury verdict against Symantec if successful.