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Supreme Court limits on patents bode ill for TransCore and IBM
Posted Tue, 2008-06-10 10:30A Supreme Court ruling this week in a patent case on mobile telephone chipsets - Quanta vs LG Electronics - deals with many of the same issues raised by TransCore in their
litigation against ETC, and touches indirectly on the value of IBM's patent claim to variable pricing tolls.
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TransCore to appeal legal defeat on ORT patent
Posted Tue, 2008-05-27 14:32
TransCore plan to lodge an appeal against the May 22 US District Court's dismissal of their complaint against ETC on patent infringement in Illinois. An official said: "I don't think you'll find this is the end of the story."
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US Court rejects TransCore complaint against ETC on open road tolling
Posted Fri, 2008-05-23 10:56US District Court in Dallas has dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit by TransCore against ETC alleging
infringement of open road tolling patents in the E-ZPass area. TransCore alleged in their suit that ETC improperly used methodologies they owned through patents for open road tolling with the IAG's Mark IV transponders and readers.
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IBM working on statement on controversial variable rate toll patent
Posted Fri, 2008-04-04 21:33IBM is working to get agreement internally on a formal statement on a controversial "Variable
rate toll system" patent that the company gained from the US Patent Office January 22. An official says that getting the patent was not part of any corporate strategy to "corner the market" on road pricing as others are alleging. 1120 words read more »
