EU’s Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said that Irish authorities are ‘taking too long’ to get so-called unpaid taxes from Apple
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Qualcomm countersues Apple
Qualcomm today filed its Answer and Counterclaims to the January lawsuit brought by Apple…
Qualcomm wants FTC to drop their antitrust suit, but it doesn’t mater because Apple’s isn’t going anywhere
Mobile chip giant Qualcomm filed a motion earlier this week in the U.S. District Court of San Jose…
Apple’s dispute with Qualcomm could last two years
We estimate the majority of risks associated with the Apple dispute have been priced into Qualcomm…
Apple widens global patent war, files lawsuit against Qualcomm in the United Kingdom
Apple Inc. sued Qualcomm Inc. in a U.K. court, adding to lawsuits across the globe…
Samsung takes second Apple v. Samsung patent case to the Supreme Court
The first Apple v. Samsung case went all the way up to the Supreme Court and has meanwhile gone all the way back…
Intel’s next-gen modem could push Apple’s ‘iPhone 8’ to 1Gbps
Apple’s next-gen iPhone could go gigabit….
EU’s hypocritical Margrethe Vestager going after Apple while backing Madeira tax avoidance scheme
This morning I heard an interesting radio report on the European Commission’s long-standing…
Apple may have paid Qualcomm $40 per iPhone; accounting for 1/3rd of Qualcomm’s revenue
If Qualcomm sold its baseband processors at approx. $20 per unit and collected or demanded royalties…
Apple CFO Maestri: What the EC is doing here is a disgrace for European citizens, it should be ashamed’
Maestri accuses EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager of pursuing a political agenda…
European Commission unhappy with Samsung’s antitrust settlement proposal
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will likely need to do more to settle…
Google’s Motorola Mobility to respond to FRAND abuse accusations from EU antitrust regulators
Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility is abusing its position by ‘seeking and enforcing’ injunctions against Apple…
Another win for Apple: German court invalidates Samsung 3G standard-essential patent
Long after office hours on Wednesday, Germany’s Bundespatentgericht
Samsung vehemently opposes Apple’s request for a rehearing of U.S. appeals court’s Nexus ruling
Apple is fighting a strategic battle at the United States Court of Appeals…
Apple-HTC terms are consistent with what Steve Jobs told Eric Schmidt and stated in public
The most important smartphone patent news in quite some time…
Samsung files redacted copy of ‘very lopsided’ Apple-HTC deal in U.S. court; Distinctive Apple User Experience not for sale
Lawyers for Samsung Electronics Co Ltd filed a redacted copy of…
Apple wins strategically important modification of dismissal to keep FRAND defense alive against Google’s Motorola
Apple has won a strategically important modification to a recent dismissal of a FRAND contract lawsuit…
Apple adds six Samsung products including Note II, S III mini and Galaxy Tab 2 to California lawsuit
Both Apple and Samsung keep exercising their rights under…
Apple and HTC willing to show license agreement to Samsung, but not the royalty rate
On Friday, Samsung’s counsel in the Apple case in California demanded…
Apple says Motorola’s essential wireless patents are at best worth $1 per iPhone
Five days ahead of a FRAND contract trial in the Western District of Wisconsin…
Samsung leverages jury verdict and preliminary ITC ruling against Apple’s FRAND theories
Besides issues relating to remedies and ways in which the court might overrule the jury…
Apple calls Samsung’s allegation of jury misconduct ‘frivolous on its face’
Late on Tuesday, Apple filed a first response to Samsung’s allegations…
Apple scores major patent win over Android: German court issues injunction against Google’s Motorola Mobility
Motorola Mobility tablets and smartphones were all found to infringe. Google is losing the smartphone patent war in the United States and in Europe…
Judge orders Google to produce list of paid bloggers by noon Friday
Google Inc failed to comply with a court order to disclose the bloggers and other commentators…
New Apple court filing includes charts comparing its market share to Samsung’s from 2004 to 2012
Today Apple filed its response to Samsung’s appeal of the preliminary injunction…
Google’s Motorola Mobility appeals U.S. ITC Android import ban
Google’s Motorola Mobility appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit an ITC import ban…
Apple lawyers contact U.S. carriers and retailers to demand removal of banned Samsung products
During the last 24 hours there have been various filings with the Federal Circuit…
Federal Circuit denies immediate stay of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction, no Nexus decision yet
Samsung appealed both of last week’s preliminary injunctions…
Android devices have already been found to infringe 11 valid Apple and Microsoft patents
Most of the patents that large companies have asserted against Android haven’t even come to judgment yet…
Apple sues HTC in Virginia court for abuse of 4G/LTE standard-essential patents
On Thursday (June 21), Apple filed FRAND contract and antitrust claims…
U.S. judge changes mind, grants Apple an injunction hearing against Motorola (and vice versa)
Judge Richard Posner, the Seventh Circuit judge…
Apple petitions U.S. ITC to throw out five patents HTC received from Google last year
The five patents listed are patents that HTC added to its second ITC complaint against Apple…
Apple strikes major blow against Samsung
Apple (AAPL) struck a major blow to its frenemy Samsung in court…
Apple wins U.S. court sanctions against Samsung in patent infringement suit
Apple Inc. (AAPL) won sanctions against Samsung Electronics Co…
Apple wants court to obscure Samsung logo on video display for jurors; exclude Jobs’ ‘thermonuclear war’ quote
In their filing, the parties explain, among many other things, what kinds of evidence-related issues…
Motorola’s patent enforcement against Apple will cost German taxpayers millions
At first sight, one might think that court, lawyers’ and other fees…
German court may ban iPhone, iPad again within a few months – same Moto patent as last time
At the Mannheim Regional Court, I just attended the pronouncement…
German appeals court allows Motorola Mobility to continue enforcing its push notification patent against Apple
For a significant period of time (which could be a year or more), Motorola…
Florian Mueller: Apple’s win over Motorola Mobility in Germany a ‘huge victory for Apple, bad news for Google’
This is such a major blow to Google’s patent strategy that it should now give serious consideration to walking away from Motorola Mobility…
Apple’s expands U.S. lawsuit against Samsung lawsuit to 8 patents, naming 17 products
On Saturday, I reported on Apple’s request for a U.S. preliminary injunction…
Financial analyst believes patent litigation could raise Apple’s share price by $35-$260
A note issued by Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore to clients today lists…
Federal Circuit orders Apple to correct appeal against denial of preliminary injunction against Samsung
Three weeks ago I reported on Apple having appealed to the Court of Appeals…
