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by Andrew Martonik
Jan 03, 2013
Google has agreed to change a couple of its business practices following an anti-competitive investigation by the Federal Trade Commission over the past several months. There are two main parts to t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 18, 2012
Judge Koh (the presiding judge in the Apple v. Samsung mess) tonight entered two orders pertaining to the case this evening. The first one, and arguably the most important one, says Apple is no...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 09, 2012
A group consisting of Google, Dell, Facebook, Homeaway, Intuit, Rackspace, Red Hat and Zynga have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals suggesting that courts stop honoring and u...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 07, 2012
The US Patent and Trade Office has made a preliminary ruling that U.S. Patent No. 7,479,949 (AKA the "Steve Jobs" multitouch patent) is invalid on all 20 points. The '949 patent is con...
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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 Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 21, 2012
A few days back Samsung asked the courts for the terms of the settlement agreement between HTC and Apple, and this evening US Judge Paul S. Grewal granted the request. Samsung is curious becaus...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 16, 2012
In an effort to stop Apple from imposing a sales ban on their products in the U.S., Samsung is seeking to have Apple disclose the terms of their patent settlement with HTC. The grounds for the court...
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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 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 Phil Nickinson
Nov 10, 2012
Agreement ends current lawsuits; license covers current and future patents for 10 years
Apple and HTC this evening in a joint statement announced they've settled their patent dispute and hav...
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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 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 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 Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 04, 2012
LG and Whirlpool have settled their latest patent dispute, leading to the dismissal of three separate infringement lawsuits in Delaware and New Jersey district courts. This looks like the end of yea...
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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
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 Simon Sage
Sep 14, 2012
Not long after its stateside patent win against Samsung has Apple secured another victory against Android, this time for an overscrolling bounce-back patent against Motorola in Germany. The win will...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 13, 2012
Bloomberg has posted a short interview with Apple co-founder and everyone's favorite geek Steve Wozniak, and part of it spoke about the ongoing legal battles between Apple and Samsung. Woz, who ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 31, 2012
Apple has amended a lawsuit they filed back in February against Samsung, and is now including four new devices to the original 17 they say violate their patented technology. The additions are the Ga...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 28, 2012
We're just gonna let this sit here. Draw your own conclusion. (The hostess seems to be a little excited about all this, too.)
That said, you'll also find this line 9:22 in: "The Androi...
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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 Rene Ritchie
Aug 27, 2012
Yeah, we're all way past done with the Apple vs Samsung vs Apple $1 billion patent verdict, but when Google releases an official statement, and Samsung posts an internal memo, well, we can't...
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by Rene Ritchie
Aug 27, 2012
Yeah, we're all way past done with the Apple vs Samsung vs Apple $1 billion patent verdict, but when Google releases an official statement, and Samsung posts an internal memo, well, we can't...
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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 Rene Ritchie
Aug 25, 2012
Phil Nickinson of Android Central and Rene Ritchie of iMore talk Apple vs. Samsung and the U.S. court verdict that saw Apple awarded over $1 billion in damages. This is a Mobile Nations special!
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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
Aug 20, 2012
Addressing the attendees of the Technology Policy Institute's conference today in Mountain View, Calif., Google public policy director Pablo Chavez made it plain that as a company, Google is fed...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 30, 2012
Following months of legal wrangling, injunctions and appeals, Samsung and Apple will face off in a federal court in San Jose today. The two companies accuse each other of patent and design infringem...
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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...
