A new battle for snack supremacy is being fought -- not over who makes the best cookies, but over who has rights to the packaging they come in. Kraft Foods Global Brands is suing Kellog's, claiming the company is using Kraft's patented technology to keep Keebler and Sandies cookies fresh.
A patent lawsuit brought by Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen against Apple, Google, and Yahoo, among others, has been dismissed. The judge found the suit, which failed to specify the products or devices that infringed on patents from Allen's company, too vague.
Apple faces one of the largest ever patent-infringement verdicts if a jury award of $625.5 million is upheld. The company is appealing after being found guilty of violating three patents owned by small tech company Mirror Worlds.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has sued tech titans like Google, Apple, eBay and Facebook for patent infringement, alleging they were utilizing technologies developed by a lab that he had invested in.