After almost a year and a half, World.com Inc. of Brookline, Mass., and NCSoft Corp. of South Korea have finally settled their patent infringement lawsuit, but terms of the settlement remain confidential.

On April 23, 2009, Telus Corporation and Telus Communications Inc. filed a patent lawsuit against WiLAN Inc., claiming they owned some of the company’s patents related to a method and apparatus for the demodulation and compression of digital signals.

On April 21, 2010, Data Detection Systems LLC filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Attachmate Corporation, International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation and Hewlett Packard (HP) Company, claiming the companies are willfully infringing one of its patents related to the execution of one or more computer application programs on one or more host computers under the control of a second computer.

On April 22, 2010, Child Protect LLC filed a patent infringement lawsuit against 15 companies, claiming they infringed on its US Patent No. 7,532,715, entitled “Telephone call control methods,” which was issued May 12, 2009.

On March 26, 2010, a jury in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas found US Bank, N.A. infringed check-imaging patents held by DataTreasury Corporation, awarding the patent holder $26,606,000 in damages. The jury also found the infringement was willful, which could lead the court to triple the damages.