August 01, 2022
Japanese technology conglomerate Panasonic has urged a California federal judge to award it attorney fees and costs because of rival Getac's allegedly baseless defense tactics in Panasonic's design patent suit over a rugged laptop line.
June 10, 2022
A California federal jury on Wednesday found that Getac infringed rival Panasonic's design patents for its Toughbook line of rugged laptops, determining that the company should fork over more than $17.5 million in damages.
May 26, 2022
Pepsi heads to the Second Circuit next week to argue that a lower court wrongly agreed with a coffee company to block the soft drink giant from using the word "Rise" in the branding of Mountain Dew's new energy drink. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
January 25, 2022
Two California federal patent trials have been postponed amid the pandemic's omicron surge, with Panasonic's suit accusing Getac of infringing its "Toughbook" design patents delayed until June and a case claiming Apple's AirPods infringe a startup's intellectual property now pushed to March.
January 13, 2022
A California federal judge told Panasonic on Thursday that he is happy to keep a February trial date on allegations its rival Getac infringes its design patents and ignore Getac's request for a delay because of the COVID-19 omicron variant surge, but the judge said the date is still guaranteed to get bumped anyway.
January 11, 2022
Lawyers for Panasonic will try to convince a California federal judge Thursday that omicron, the latest COVID-19 variant, is "relatively mild" and not grounds to reschedule an in-person jury trial set to take place next month that involves allegations a Taiwanese rival infringes design patents that cover Panasonic's Toughbook line of rugged laptops.