Reprints.Newport Beach-based Acacia Research Corp., a technology licensing company that files patent infringement patent infringement n. the manufacture and/or use of an invention or improvement for which someone else owns a patent issued by the government, without obtaining permission of the owner of the patent by contract, license or waiver. lawsuits over its many designs, has acquired patents for several technologies relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc improving print image quality for inkjet printers. The $141 million company is not afraid to go after industry leaders in its "licensing and enforcement campaigns." It won a settlement last month with Sony Corp., ending a patent-infringement lawsuit covering audio/video enhancement and image resolution technology. (The sum of the settlement was not disclosed.) In April, Acacia filed patent infringement suits against Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. Corp. relating to microprocessors and other chips. Could inkjet printer-makers be next? Leaders in the market include Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard Co., maker of the HP Photosmart Hewlett-Packard's line of digital cameras and photo printers is called Photosmart. Digital cameras The original HP digital camera was a CompactFlash-based model simply called the Photosmart. It was a VGA-resolution camera with a simple LCD. line of printers, and Long Beach-based Epson America Inc., maker of the Epson Stylus Photo printers. Epson is a subsidiary of Seiko Corp., based in Tokyo. Staff reporter Hilary Potkewitz and Orange County Business Journal  An editor has expressed concern that this article or section is .Please help improve the article by adding information and sources on neglected viewpoints, or by summarizing and reporter Andrew Simons contributed to this column. Potkewitz can be reached at (323) 549-5225 ext. 226, or by e-mail at hpotkewitz@labusinessjournal.com. |
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