Lenovo has filed a lawsuit towards Asus, claiming that the corporate’s laptops infringe on 4 of their patents. “Lenovo is looking for damages and for Asus to cease promoting Zenbook laptops and different allegedly infringing merchandise within the U.S.,” experiences Ars Technica. From the report: The lawsuit [PDF] facilities on 4 patents. The primary, entitled “Strategies and equipment for transmitting in useful resource blocks” was issued in 2021 and pertains to minimizing the delay skilled throughout an uplink bundle transmission by decreasing the variety of steps for a wi-fi machine to add knowledge. Lenovo’s lawsuit, which makes use of Asus’ Zenbook Professional 14 OLED (UX6404) for example of an allegedly infringing product, additionally claims Asus is promoting laptops that violate the wi-fi wake-on-LAN energy administration patent issued to Lenovo in 2010.
One other patent Lenovo is suing over was issued in 2010 and entitled “Touchpad diagonal scrolling.” It permits customers to “provoke a diagonal scroll at any location on a touchpad by utilizing two fingers,” the lawsuit says. Lastly, Lenovo is upset about Asus’ purported infringing of its “Twin shaft hinge with angle timing shaft mechanism” patent rewarded in 2014. Lenovo describes it as a hinge block enabling 2-in-1 laptops to go from clamshell mode to pill mode. For this accused patent infringement, Lenovo’s lawsuit factors to Asus’ Zenbook Flip 14 UX461, which Asus advertises as having a 360-degree “ErgoLift” hinge that “lifts and tilts the keyboard into the proper typing place when the show is rotated into laptop computer mode.”
As famous by The Register at present, in a letter to the ITC dated November 15 [PDF]Lenovo mentioned it desires Asus to “stop and desist from advertising, promoting, distributing, providing on the market, promoting, or in any other case transferring, together with the motion or cargo of stock” merchandise that infringe upon the 4 patents in query. In an extra dig, Lenovo added {that a} restricted exclusion order would not hurt US shoppers or competitors, as a consequence of Asus’ smaller market share. In keeping with the IDC, Asus represented about 7.1 p.c of the PC market (which incorporates laptops and desktops) in Q3 2023. Lenovo led at 23.5 p.c.
