Defywire Inc. of Herndon,
sued webMethods Inc. of Fairfax with obtaining
and using proprietary information in the development
of a product to complete with Defywire's own wireless
technology. The suit asks for $5 million in damages,
and an injunction to prevent disclosure of Defywire's
information. (Business Wire)
Emergence Inc., a Richmond
marketing firm, was forced into Chapter 7 bankruptcy
by some of the company's vendors in Georgia. Problems
originated from a catalog and direct-marketing business
in Atlanta that Emergence bought from Cadmus Communications
Inc. of Richmond in 2002. Kelly O'Keefe,
CEO of Emergence, will continue as a marketing consultant
but without use of the Emergence name. (Richmond
Times-Dispatch)
NTP Inc., an Arlington patent-holding
firm, reached agreement with Research in Motion Ltd.
of Canada over a charge of patent infringement in the
production of Research In Motion's popular Blackberry
wireless e-mail device. NTP received $450 million and
agreed to allow Research In Motion to continue its
Blackberry production unimpeded. (The Associated
Press)
Rambus Inc.'s suit against Infineon
Technologies AG was thrown out of federal court
after Rambus was found to have engaged in misconduct
in the case. Rambus, a Los Altos, Calif., semiconductor
firm, had sued Infineon over patent infringement.
Infineon is a German firm whose U.S. chip facility
is in Henrico County. The court left open the possibility
of transferring an allegation of unfair competition
by Infineon to a state court in California. (Richmond
Times-Dispatch)
Virginia proposed a revision
of state regulations on airborne emissions from factories
and power plants that undergo modifications. The revised
regulations, while more relaxed than existing standards,
are still tougher than recent changes made at the federal
level. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
