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by Anndrew Vacca
Sep 23, 2011
Another day, another tit for tat in the ongoing patent wars between Samsung and Apple. In a recent interview with the Associated Press, Lee Younghee, Samsung's head of global market...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 08, 2011
Microsoft this morning announced it has reached licensing agreements with Acer and Viewsonic over the companies' Android devices. Terms of either agreement were not announced, but Viewsonic will pay r...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 07, 2011
Carriers, manufacturers who play nice get 'non-contractual time to market advantage'Can't say this surprises us much. Think back to mid-May, when This is my Next's Nilay Patel did a bang-up job explai...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 16, 2011
A court has partially lifted an injunction against Samsung that was keeping the Korean hardware manufacturer from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in most of the Europen Union.The German court ruled ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 15, 2011
We're not about to come out and say Apple deliberately altered key visual evidence in the recent proceedings in Germany, which resulted in European imports screeching to an abrupt halt. We will ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 10, 2011
Samsung's penned a blog post following a German court's preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1, preventing sales in most of the European Union. The preliminary injunction was filed Tuesday...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 03, 2011
We've heard the cries. "Why isn't Google fighting back on the patent front?!?!" Trust us, there are people in suits working on this every day. And today David Drummond, senior vice pres...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 21, 2011
As the patent world turns ... The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, this morning reports that Google is in talks with InterDigital Inc. about acquiring the "technology developer and li...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 15, 2011
The International Trade Commission has ruled that HTC is infringing on two of the ten patents involved in the original Apple v HTC suit. Grace Lei, general counsel for HTC has already sta...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 14, 2011
Google was asked about the "patent situation" during Thursday's second-quarter earnings call. The "situation," of course, is that Google recently lost a bid for a major bunch of pa...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 14, 2011
Remember the little lawsuit Sony Ericsson filed against Clearwire? Nope? You're better off for it. SE had filed suit in January, claiming Clearwire's logo looked a little too familiar, and it wou...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 12, 2011
Once upon a time there was a little story about Motorola ditching Google's location services in Android in favor of a company called Skyhook. And just a couple months after that little story came anot...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 05, 2011
Not to make light of the United States' broken legal system, but it's hard for me to take all these lawsuits over ideas very seriously. Apparently, the Hon. Willam Alsup agrees, and he has throw...
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by Kyle Gibb
Apr 22, 2011
Samsung has announced that it is taking Apple to court for 10 counts of patent infringement. The lawsuits come in response to Apple's suit against the Korean giant filed for allegedly copying th...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 28, 2011
Can't say we didn't see this coming. Maybe because as soon as the HTC ChaCha was announced the fist thought that came to our collective mind was ChaCha, the questions and answers search engine. As it ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 21, 2011
You might have stumbled across a story or two on the web today about Florian Mueller from FOSSpatents finding 43 more files in the Android source that look to be copied from Sun. I know I did, a...
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by Chris Kerrigan
Dec 29, 2010
Google is no stranger to lawsuits, and they will have yet another on their hands it appears. Paul Allen, the Co-Founder (and least spoken about) of Microsoft filed an amended lawsuit against Google, a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 01, 2010
Oracle has amended its lawsuit against Google, and claims that Google is stealing code for use in Android. They also make claim that one-third of the Java APIs for use by application developers ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 16, 2010
Back in April it was announced that Motorola was switching to Boston-based Skyhook for location services on its Android phones. That never happened, apparently, and now Skyhook has filed suit against ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 13, 2010
Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that the Android operating system infringes on its own software patents. Oracle spokeswoman Karen Tillman says in an official statement, "...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 01, 2010
And the long slog that is Apple's claim that HTC violated a number of its patents continues, with the International Trade Commission deciding to hold an evidentiary hearing within 45 days. That d...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 05, 2010
Did you hear that Apple is suing the pants off of HTC? Of course you did. And though the lawsuit will likely all be settled with millions of dollars exchanging hands and business will go on as u...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 05, 2010
Yeah, we went there. And, yeah, kinda not funny, we suppose. Great web comic, though. [Joy of Tech]...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 04, 2010
No movement on Day 3 of the Apple-HTC patent saga (or quagmire, actually). Hey, we said this thing's gonna take years. But it did bring another round of analysis. Today's featured piece comes from Th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 03, 2010
Woke up this morning. Checked the news. Yep, Apple's still suing HTC. (Have a feeling a number of people in Bellevue, Wash., did the same.) Here's a roundup of the latest in the patent battle lau...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 02, 2010
Now that Apple's lawsuit against HTC is all of six hours or so old, it's time to reflect at what exactly has happened. And we can sum it up in the following sentence: Apple has filed a patent infringe...
