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by Anndrew Vacca
Jan 27, 2012
The European Commission has given Sony the OK to take full control of Sony Ericsson, three months after Sony paid €1.05 billion for Ericsson's share of the partnership. Along with the...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 25, 2012
The Korea Herald today is reporting that the unlocking mechanism on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is not the subject of a new legal complaint filed by Apple.
The Galaxy Nexus was first named as a target...
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by Simon Sage
Jan 17, 2012
Apple is looking to expand its current German ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 to a variety of Samsung smartphones on similar grounds of design patent infringement. The Galaxy S II and Galaxy S Plus are b...
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by Richard Devine
Dec 20, 2011
The Android world is no stranger to lawsuits, but the latest one coming from British Telecom goes right to the top. It's suing Google in the U.S. over claims that six of its patents have b...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 24, 2011
Microsoft on Sunday -- you know, day press releases are typically sent out -- announced it had reached a patent licensing agreement with Compal over its tablets, phones, e-readers and any other devi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 28, 2011
Samsung will pay Microsoft royalties for smartphones and tablets running Android. A cross-licensing deal reach between the two companies was announced Wednesday morning. And while that means both co...
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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 15, 2011
The patent arms race continues as Google purchased 1,023 patents from IBM in August. The patents run the gamut from hardware to software. As SEO by the Sea points out, some relate to Java, ...
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by Sean Brunett
Sep 07, 2011
Last month HTC sued Apple for patent infringement, which was one lawsuit among many in the tech world these days. HTC has now filed another lawsuit, but this time it's directly related to patents that...
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by Sean Brunett
Aug 24, 2011
Samsung has suffered another setback in the European Union. Weeks after a German court ordered an injunction of their Galaxy Tab 10.1, a Dutch court has ruled in Apple's favor against Samsung's Galaxy...
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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 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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German court orders Samsung to halt Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales and advertisements, will affect most of EU
by Anndrew Vacca
Aug 09, 2011
A German court has granted Apple a preliminary injunction in its ongoing patent dispute with Samsung, effectively halting all sales and advertisement of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 across the European Union. ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 04, 2011
Let's just break it down thusly:
Google SVP and chief legal officer David Drummond pens a blog post explaining the company's position in the current patent situation.
Microsoft's lawyer responds ....
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 04, 2011
"Your Honor, I present Exhibit A -- an e-mail I posted on Twitter." This, apparently, is where we now stand in the he said-she said battle that has become Google v. the World in regard...
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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 Anndrew Vacca
Aug 01, 2011
A federal court in Sydney ruled in favor of Apple in its ongoing patent war with Samsung, prohibiting the advertisement and sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia until the dispute is resolved or pe...
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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 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 Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 12, 2011
Although he's too humble to mention it (yeah, right), our fearless leader, Phil Nickinson, had the privilege of hanging out with Jason Howell, Eileen Rivera and Ron Richards on TWiT's All About Andro...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 06, 2011
Microsoft and Samsung reportedly are in discussions over licensing fees concerning the latter's Android smartphones. Reuters, citing "local media," reported that Microsoft was "demandin...
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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 Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 10, 2010
NTP is once again suing over patents they hold for the wireless collection of e-mail data, charging Google, Motorola, HTC, LG, Microsoft and Apple with infringement. (Seems they forgot carrier p...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 28, 2010
Microsoft issued a news release late late night, announcing it signed a patent agreement with HTC over its entire line of smartphones running the Android operating system. Specific terms of the ...
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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 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...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 17, 2010
Sure, Apple's greatest love is technology, but it's second greatest love is patent filing. And it turns out that Cupertino filed for one way back in June 2008 that describes contact icons on a smartph...
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by Casey Chan
Nov 18, 2008
We had mentioned in passing that we heard that the G1 was capable of multi-touch before. We loved multi touch in our hands on video with the iPhone 3G. And we'll continue to pine for it until we re...
