News Summary

• Google Chromecast infringed upon three patents of Touchstream Technologies Inc and should pay million in damages a Western District of Texas jury decided on Friday
• The ruling comes after Touchstream filed a complaint in June claiming that it met with Google in December and was told that the tech giant wasn t interested in partnering with it in February Google then released Chromecast in The complaint points to the first Chromecast and the second and third generations Chromecast Ultra and Chromecast with Google TV as well as other Chromecast integrated products as infringements of Touch stream patents
• Google denied infringing on Touchstream s patents and has claimed the patents are invalid based on the principle of obviousness which argues that inventions that are apparent to the public due to previous inventions can t be patented