Tag: Patent Dispute
by Chris Smith, 7 months ago
In case you weren’t paying any attention to the mobile wars, these are not fought only stores, but also in courts where the main players in the game are suing and countersuing each other on…
by Andrew Grush, 7 months ago
Looking to buy a new Motorola tablet or smartphone in Germany? Good luck with that. You can thank the Microsoft patent battles against Motorola for the lack of purchase options being offered. In order to…
by Simon Hill, 7 months ago
In 2011 Google and Apple both spent more money on patents than they did on research and development. Acquiring patents and patent litigation in the smartphone industry amounted to $20 billion in the last two…
by Adrian Diaconescu, 7 months ago
Despite not being in the headlines as much as the Apple-Samsung legal brawl, the patent fight between Motorola and Microsoft has been very eventful lately. In fact, if we wouldn’t want to keep our objective…
by J. Angelo Racoma, 7 months ago
Apple scored a big win over Samsung this August, when a California district court ruled in favor of the Cupertino company in its patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung. The Korean company was ordered to pay…
by Simon Hill, 7 months ago
When Oracle took Google to court over Android things didn’t turn out so well for it. First of all the jury took just over a week to decide that Google did not infringe any Oracle…
by Chris Smith, 7 months ago
The Apple vs Android war is far from over – in fact we have updates on the various legal conflicts between Apple and the main Android device makers on a regular basis – but today…
by Simon Hill, 7 months ago
Google’s Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, has been helping to launch the Nexus 7 tablet in South Korea. As part of his visit we expect Google and Samsung to have been strategizing on the patent war…
by Adrian Diaconescu, 8 months ago
With Apple’s iPads leading so comfortably in global tablet sales, one might think that there isn’t a lot of dough to be made by mainstream Android tab makers, let alone by manufacturers focusing on niches…
by Simon Hill, 8 months ago
It should come as no surprise that Samsung was not too happy with the outcome of the patent infringement trial with Apple in California. The South Korean electronics giant has now filed court proceedings alleging…
by J. Angelo Racoma, 8 months ago
Ludicrous as Apple’s claim to patents as generic as rounded corners may be, it does seem that not all courts of law are convinced that Apple owns everything. A German court has recently ruled in…
by Simon Hill, 8 months ago
Unwired Planet has filed patent infringement claims against Google and Apple. Both companies are charged with infringing on ten patents, but is seems likely that more claims might follow. The “intellectual property” company is claiming…
by Adrian Diaconescu, 8 months ago
It’s been a tough time lately for Samsung in ongoing legal war against Apple, with the Android phone maker losing patent battle after battle. And while the losses have been painful, particularly the one from…
by Chris Smith, 8 months ago
In late August Samsung suffered a crushing defeat in its first U.S. trial against Apple. The jury in the case found that several Android handsets infringe on up to 6 out of the 7 patents…
