by Robert Triggs, 1 week ago

Patent lawsuits are a weary subject. It seems that we can’t go a week without hearing about one legal challenge or another. It’s an issue which affects a lot of businesses, especially in the U.S.,…

by Robert Triggs, 3 weeks ago

Samsung is investing $25 million in a new company which is designed to help protect intellectual property. The money is being used to form Intellectual Keystone Technology (IKT) based in Washington-DC, which will function as…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 2 months ago

The Apple vs Samsung patent clash has been making the headlines the most in the past year or so, but that’s not the only seemingly endless legal dispute starring some of the big tech companies…

by Mike Stenger, 2 months ago

Google-owned Motorola Mobility went after Microsoft over a patent involving the Xbox, and administrative law judge David P. Shaw has ruled in Microsoft’s favor. U.S. Patent Number 6,069,896 describes a technology that allows devices to…

by Ankit Banerjee, 3 months ago

Samsung may consider Apple to be its biggest rival in the global smartphone wars, but the company has completely dominated the Android scene over the past few years and other Android OEMs have taken the…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 3 months ago

This will be good news for Samsung and its stakeholders — including investors and Samsung device users. Judge Lucy Koh, who presided over the Apple vs. Samsung patent lawsuit that was decided in favor of…

by Joe Hindy, 4 months ago

In the great Apple vs Samsung court battle, it seems as though Samsung is bent on making a comeback. As we all remember, Samsung lost a little more than $1 billion in a patent infringement…

by Simon Hill, 6 months ago

The patent wars have been raging on for years now and it feels even longer. Apple has sued a variety of companies and in the Android sphere a major defensive strategy, for Samsung and Motorola…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 6 months ago

Remember Ericsson, the Swedish-based telecommunications equipment provider that recently sold its share of the joint venture with Sony? No, the company’s not making a comeback in the world of phone manufacturing, but it does plan…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 6 months ago

What do you do when fate (and the legal system) deals you a cruel hand, and you’re seemingly proven an intellectual thief? Do you retreat, accept your defeat and move on, or do you try…

by Simon Hill, 7 months ago

You’d be forgiven if patent war fatigue is starting to set in. The petty squabbling over patent licensing has reached epic proportions in the mobile industry. The good news is that juicy details you’d never…

by Bams Sadewo, 7 months ago

Thanks to the rather surprising weekend announcement, we found out that HTC is officially sleeping with the enemy now. The Taiwanese manufacturer has struck a 10-year patent cross-licensing deal with Apple, putting to an end…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 7 months ago

Not all court litigation ends in costly legal fees and court-determined payment of damages. Some choose to end it early on and just settle out-of-court. While Apple has won a whopping billion dollars in its…

by Simon Hill, 7 months ago

We brought you the news of Apple’s grudging acknowledgement that Samsung did not copy the iPad. The company was told by a UK judge to publish a statement on its website in a measure designed to…

by Simon Hill, 7 months ago

Google-owned Motorola Mobility is about to embark on two trials over its standard-essential patents (SEPs). It’s up against Microsoft in Seattle and faces Apple in Madison. Apparently there may be overlaps between the two trials…