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Tag: licensing

Apple TV+ to license its movies to other services

Tuesday, November 19, 2024 11:02 amTuesday, November 19, 2024No Comments

Apple has hired an executive to license its Apple Original Films’ movies to other companies with the intent to not only increase returns…

EU antitrust regulators to probe Apple, Google, Amazon, and others over 4K video codec licensing policy

Thursday, July 7, 2022 4:03 pmNo Comments

The European Commission said on Thursday that EU antitrust regulators are investigating the video licensing policy of the Alliance…

Apple loses bid to revive challenges of Qualcomm patents after licensing deal

Thursday, November 11, 2021 11:27 am1 Comment

For the second time, a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday rebuffed Apple’s attempt to revive challenges to chipmaker Qualcomm’s patents…

Intel says Qualcomm tactics forced it out of modem chip market

Friday, November 29, 2019 3:03 pmFriday, November 29, 20191 Comment

Intel made the claims in a brief filed with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where Qualcomm is seeking to overturn a sweeping antitrust decision against it…

Munich court tells Apple to retract portion of press statement regarding iPhone case

Friday, January 18, 2019 2:01 pmFriday, January 18, 20191 Comment

Apple Inc. was ordered to stop using part of a press release that claims…

Apple, Intel persuade U.S. Patent Office to enter Qualcomm fight

Wednesday, January 16, 2019 1:23 pm1 Comment

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has decided to wade into a global licensing battle…

Apple’s COO Jeff Williams delivers blistering testimony on Qualcomm’s ‘onerous demands’

Tuesday, January 15, 2019 5:27 pm4 Comments

Court testimony from Apple’s Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams has laid out that Qualcomm…

Apple was paying Qualcomm over $1 billion per year in licensing

Tuesday, January 15, 2019 2:01 pmTuesday, January 15, 2019No Comments

It’s now been almost two years since Apple and the Federal Trade Commission…

German court throws out Qualcomm’s latest patent case against Apple

Tuesday, January 15, 2019 10:32 amTuesday, January 15, 20193 Comments

A patent lawsuit filed by Qualcomm Inc against Apple Inc was thrown out by a German court on Tuesday…

Qualcomm calls Apple CEO Cook’s settlement talk comment ‘misleading’

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 11:37 amWednesday, January 9, 20197 Comments

Qualcomm Inc on Tuesday responded to comments Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook made in an interview…

Qualcomm seeks compulsory court execution of iPhone sales ban in China

Thursday, December 27, 2018 4:44 pmThursday, December 27, 2018No Comments

Apple acknowledged the company hadn’t stopped selling the products that were under injunction…

Qualcomm warns Apple to take China’s ban of older iPhones very seriously

Wednesday, December 19, 2018 3:56 pmWednesday, December 19, 20185 Comments

The court order, granted last week after Qualcomm argued that Apple is infringing on its patents…

Qualcomm claims Apple is violating Chinese court order, despite software changes

Tuesday, December 18, 2018 8:59 amTuesday, December 18, 20182 Comments

Qualcomm Inc said it believes Apple Inc remains in violation of a Chinese court’s orders…

Apple says a Chinese iPhone ban would force a settlement with Qualcomm

Friday, December 14, 2018 12:55 pmFriday, December 14, 20182 Comments

Apple Inc. says a Chinese ban on sales of the iPhone will force it to settle…

Apple seeks to offset Chinese ‘iPhone ban’ by boosting production by exempt supplier Pegatron

Friday, December 14, 2018 11:09 amNo Comments

Apple is in talks to shift production of older iPhones to a key Taiwanese supplier…

Apple will tweak Chinese iPhones to comply with Qualcomm ruling

Friday, December 14, 2018 8:58 amFriday, December 14, 20186 Comments

Apple Inc will push a software update to Chinese iPhone users early next week…

Investors needlessly panic over so-called Chinese iPhone ‘ban’

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:37 pmWednesday, December 12, 20186 Comments

News broke on Monday about a ban on iPhone imports and sales in China — and as you’d expect…

Apple analysts broadly shrug off China’s so-called ‘iPhone sales ban’

Monday, December 10, 2018 3:02 pmMonday, December 10, 20184 Comments

Apple Inc. analysts broadly shrugged off a report that the company was banned from selling…

Apple denies iPhone import ban in China

Monday, December 10, 2018 1:08 pm3 Comments

US chip-maker Qualcomm claims it has won an injunction against Apple that effectively…

China ‘bans the import and sale’ of most iPhones, Qualcomm claims; Apple says iPhones still available

Monday, December 10, 2018 9:35 am10 Comments

A Chinese court ordered Apple Inc. to stop selling older iPhone models in the country…

No, Apple isn’t deleting your iTunes movies

Monday, September 17, 2018 5:32 pmMonday, September 17, 201835 Comments

No, Apple isn’t deleting movies people bought through iTunes…

Apple is deleting films purchased from iTunes Store – and don’t expect a refund

Thursday, September 13, 2018 5:36 pm59 Comments

Reports have started to emerge of Apple completely deleting films from iTunes accounts…

A 5G iPhone will cost Apple about $21 in licensing fees to Qualcomm, others

Wednesday, August 22, 2018 4:51 pm8 Comments

Apple could theoretically end up paying $21 or more per phone to cover licensing fees…

Apple: Where the modern corporation is going

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 11:35 amWednesday, May 30, 20185 Comments

As Apple approaches a market cap of $1 trillion with a return on shareholder’s equity of 36.1 percent in 2017…

Apple as a service: Services offer growth, visibility, and profitability

Tuesday, May 15, 2018 11:10 amTuesday, May 15, 20185 Comments

Apple Services is the 2nd of 4 pillars to our Apple as a Service thesis…

Apple’s huge OS licensing opportunity

Wednesday, August 3, 2016 4:26 pmWednesday, August 3, 201621 Comments

Apple may have a huge and hidden opportunity to drive proliferation across all its platforms by licensing some…

Artist Romero Britto sues Apple, design firm over marketing images

Monday, April 13, 2015 3:33 pmMonday, April 13, 201544 Comments

Artist Romero Britto is suing Apple Inc. and a design firm in federal court…

Imagination unveils 192-core mobile GPU; could appear in future Apple iPhones, iPads

Monday, February 24, 2014 11:55 am6 Comments

PowerVR graphics processors are a key component of Apple’s iOS devices…

Imagination Technologies extends its multi-year licensing agreement with Apple; shares surge

Thursday, February 6, 2014 11:12 am1 Comment

magination Technologies Group has announced that Apple has extended…

Why Google Android software is not as free or open as some think

Friday, January 24, 2014 10:05 amFriday, January 24, 20149 Comments

Google and its testing partners were being intentionally vague…

Apple licenses $10 million in patents originally created by Palm, others

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 9:30 am15 Comments

Apple has reached an agreement to license intellectual property from…

HTC claims to be ‘very, very happy’ with Apple settlement, slams media estimates

Tuesday, November 20, 2012 9:54 am3 Comments

Taiwan’s HTC Corp is happy with its patent settlement with Apple Inc…

Next year, Apple and Microsoft could make 600% more from Android than Google

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 10:22 amTuesday, November 13, 201216 Comments

Google’s mobile operating system Android may be winning the smartphone wars…

HTC initiated settlement talks with Apple after being hit with several legal setbacks, says source

Monday, November 12, 2012 2:27 pm1 Comment

HTC Corp. will pay licensing fees to Apple Inc. as part of its settlement agreement…

Analyst: HTC settlement worth up to $8 per phone for Apple; serve as model for future deals with Apple patent infringers

Monday, November 12, 2012 1:31 pmMonday, November 12, 20123 Comments

With HTC expected to ship up to 35 million smartphones in 2013…

Apple and HTC settle global patent battle

Sunday, November 11, 2012 9:32 pmMonday, November 12, 201218 Comments

HTC and Apple have reached a global settlement that includes…

Next week’s Apple-Google FRAND trial may be canceled on Monday morning

Saturday, November 3, 2012 11:40 am5 Comments

Five months after Judge Posner canceled an Apple v. Motorola Mobility patent infringement trial…

Apple has licensed iOS design patents to Microsoft with ‘anti-cloning’ stipulation

Monday, August 13, 2012 1:32 pmMonday, August 13, 201211 Comments

Apple Inc. licensed its prized design patents to Microsoft Corp but…

EU: Motorola Mobility demanded Apple license all its patents for deal

Monday, March 12, 2012 10:27 pm19 Comments

The European Commission’s clearance decision on Google’s proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility…

Apple lawsuits, licensing fees could alter the Android landscape

Thursday, March 8, 2012 8:33 am7 Comments

Apple is apparently negotiating with some Android manufacturers…

Microsoft inks patent-licensing deal with LG over Android, Chrome OS

Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:43 pmThursday, January 12, 201213 Comments

Microsoft has struck another key patent-licensing deal in the Android ecosystem…

Financial analyst believes patent litigation could raise Apple’s share price by $35-$260

Monday, January 9, 2012 9:53 am7 Comments

A note issued by Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore to clients today lists…

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