Lenovo wants ASUS to stop selling Zenbook laptops in the US after it filed a lawsuit against ASUSTek Computer Inc. and ASUS Computer International for allegedly infringing patents.
The lawsuit, which was filed in a district court in California last November states that Lenovo is asking for a jury trial and “damages, including lost profits, caused by the alleged patent infringement.”
Lenovo also took to the US International Trade Commission (ITC) and filed a patent infringement action against ASUS.
The lawsuit’s subject is four patents. First, there’s the “methods and apparatus for transmitting in resource blocks,” which was issued in 2021 and refers to reducing the delay during uplink package transmission.
Lenovo puts its fingers on the ASUS Zenbook Pro 14 OLED as the infringing product and also claims that ASUS is offering laptops that violate the wireless wake-on-LAN power management patent that Lenovo issued in 2010.
- How to sync iPhone on Windows 11: Notifications, File Transfers, Messages, Calls
- How to copy paste from Android to PC and vice versa
There’s also the “Touchpad diagonal scrolling” patent that was issued in 2010, which allows users to do diagonal scrolling on any part of the touchpad with two fingers.
Finally, Lenovo is alleging that ASUS infringed its “dual shaft hinge with angle timing shaft mechanism” patent issued in 2014. As per Lenovo, this type of hinge allows hybrid laptops to go from clamshell mode to tablet mode.
Lenovo points to the ASUS Zenbook Flip 14 and its 360-degree ErgoLift hinge that “lifts and tilts the keyboard into the perfect typing position when the display is rotated into laptop mode.”
In the press release, Lenovo said that they decided to file the complaint as a response to ASUS’s August 2024 filings with The Regional Court of Munich patent tribunal. Lenovo said that the filings from ASUS were related to cellular technology and that Lenovo offered ASUS a “cross-licensing deal as a solution.”
Lenovo’s filing to the ITC states that they want ASUS to “cease and desist from marketing, advertising, distributing, offering for sale, selling, or otherwise transferring, including the movement or shipment of inventory” of the products that infringe the four aforementioned patents.”
Via: Ars Technica