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by Alex Dobie
Dec 06, 2012
The confidential cross-licensing agreement between HTC and Apple that ended hostilities between the companies became a little less confidential today. A redacted version of the agreement has been ma...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 16, 2012
Both Apple and Samsung have been granted requests to add additional devices to their respective patent claims against one another by a federal judge recently. This means that Samsung can claim paten...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 14, 2012
HTC and Apple's recently-announced legal settlement and cross-licensing agreement has had some wondering if Samsung might follow a similar path and attempt to resolve its legal conflicts with Ap...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 13, 2012
Today Microsoft and Motorola are meeting in courts over royalty fees for 802.11 wireless and H.264 video patents. Microsoft is claiming that Motorola is asking for too much for the use of these tech...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 12, 2012
Though the most HTC would say about their patent settlement with Apple was that they didn't expect the process to "have an adverse material impact on the financials of the company," an...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 12, 2012
Previously on Patent Wars -- Apple sues Samsung in the UK over alleged copying of its iPad design, loses, appeals, loses again, and is ordered to publish statements in leading publications and its o...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 07, 2012
Back in 2009, AT&T started shifting pay-as-you-go data subscribers to full monthly customers, despite promises that they would be able to grandfather their old plans in. This meant that ...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 03, 2012
Earlier in the week Apple was rebuked by a UK court of appeal for publishing a "non-compliant" statement about Samsung's Galaxy Tabs not infringing, but willfully copying the iPad. The...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 01, 2012
Apple given 48 hours to correct statement on its UK site
When Apple issued its legally-mandated statement, indicating that Samsung had not copied the iPad in its Android tablet range, we specula...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 26, 2012
Apple publishes court-mandated statement on UK site, but it's probably not what Samsung was hoping for.
As required by a UK High Court ruling, Apple has updated its British site with a link ...
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by Victoria Ho
Oct 18, 2012
Apple has lost its appeal against a UK ruling in its long-running suit against Samsung, and will have to wear a little egg on its face for a while — a month, to be specific.
Back in July, the...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 11, 2012
A U.S. appeals court has overturned the injunction banning sales of the Galaxy Nexus, according to reports. Apple won a preliminary injunction blocking sales of Samsung's Nexus in June, after a ...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 11, 2012
Devil's Attorney launched on Google Play today, putting the players in the shoes of Max McMann, a defense lawyer whose wordplay can baffle any jury and tear apart the case of any prosecutor out ...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 05, 2012
Microsoft's latest patent lawsuit against Motorola was ruled in favor of Motorola in Mannheim, Germany regional court today. The patent in question related to the interoperability of software be...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 02, 2012
In August, Motorola was seeking an import ban of the iPad and iPhone from the International Trade Commission due to patent infringement, but today Motorola has dropped the case. Since the seven non-...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 02, 2012
Google's legal team has recently blasted out e-mails to registered developers regarding a subpeona issued by the FBI. Apparently this has something to do with an investigation regarding apps sho...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 02, 2012
As soon as the U.S. sales ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was lifted, Samsung leaped back into the legal offensive, tacking on the iPhone 5 to its own patent claims against Apple. The fresh complaints ar...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 01, 2012
The sales injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been lifted this evening, allowing Samsung to once again offer the Tab 10.1 for sale in the US. The decision comes after a California jur...
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by Simon Sage
Aug 27, 2012
Samsung shares dropped 7.5% today following the patent case ruling in Apple's favor late last week. While Samsung has been ordered to pay $1.05 billion to Apple, the real damage looks like it wi...
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by Alex Dobie
Aug 27, 2012
"We work with our partners to give consumers innovative and affordable products, and we don't want anything to limit that."
The dust is still setting following Friday's $1.049 ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 21, 2012
The latest Apple v. Samsung case is winding down (hooray!) and the jury was given a huge list of instructions in court today to prepare them for their deliberation. Barring any last-minute chan...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 24, 2012
Apple had its quarterly earnings call today, and while looking through the news a thought hit. The financials are proof positive that the lawsuits against Android OEMs and partners can never stop. I...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 18, 2012
Bloomberg reports that UK Judge Colin Birss has ordered Apple to post notice on the Apple UK website -- as well as Financial Times, the Daily Mail, Guardian Mobile magazine, and T3 -- stating t...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 17, 2012
Apple is locked in legal combat with many Android manufacturers, with a range of tactics being used to try to keep iPad and iPhone competitors off store shelves. In Germany, Apple's had some suc...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 14, 2012
Rene and his team over at iMore got their hands on a copy of Apple's takedown notice that's being sent to retailers who stock the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Nexus. According to the...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 10, 2012
Yesterday we heard that the Sprint Galaxy S III was in the midst of getting a small "security" update over-the-air, but with little detail of what exactly was changed. The jury is still ou...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 07, 2012
We heard it was going to happen, and today the Galaxy Nexus has appeared with a price and an "add to cart" button again in Google Play, but things are still a bit off. Prior to the sales b...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 22, 2012
Judge Posner has thrown out the entire case in the on-again, off-again Apple versus Motorola dispute. Citing that neither side was able to produce any real damages, both sides have been sent packing...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 12, 2012
Apple won't be able to hold back the Galaxy S III tide in the US, as their request for an early injunction hearing against Samsung's latest has been denied by U.S. District Judge Lucy K...
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by Sean Brunett
Jun 01, 2012
U.S. District Judge William Alsup made a key decision on Thursday in the Google v. Oracle case. He dismissed Oracle's claims that the APIs that Google used were copyrightable.
Just last week, a...
