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Lawsuit accuses Apple of infringing Masimo patents
Masimo Corp. has accused Apple of stealing trade secrets and improperly using Masimo’s patented inventions related to health monitoring in Apple Watch…
Sonos lawsuit claims Google has been blatantly and knowingly copying Sonos’ patented technology
In 2013, Sonos scored a coup when Google agreed to design its music service to work easily with Sonos’s home speakers…
Beleaguered Samsung Electronics posts 56% plunge in June-quarter profit
Samsung Electronics warned on Wednesday that Japanese curbs on the export of chip-making materials was blurring…
Analysts: Apple could gain smartphone market share thanks to Trump administration’s Huawei ban
While the Trump administration’s ban on Huawei is causing trouble for the smartphone maker, Apple has a chance to gain smartphone market share…
Apple slapped with 16-patent lawsuit from wireless tech firm Seven Networks
Seven Networks, an active mobile technology company based out of Texas and Finland…
ITC judge sides with Qualcomm, recommends iPhone import ban, but President Trump could veto
In 2017, Qualcomm filed two ITC complaints (requests for U.S. import bans) against Apple…
Maxell sues Apple alleging patent infringement
Long-time magnetic storage and electronics maker Maxell on Friday launched a lawsuit against Apple…
Jury award of $145 million in Apple-WiLAN patent case slashed to $10 million
A jury verdict that awarded $145 million to licensing firm WiLAN Inc. after its victory…
Patent troll sues Apple alleging Apple Pay infringement
Apple has been sued by Texas company Fintiv, who describe themselves as…
Apple hit with lawsuit claiming patent infringement over TrueDepth Camera, Portrait Mode, the bokeh effect and more
Apple has been sued by Yanbin Yu and Zhongxuan Zhang for infringing their patent…
U.S. jury awards $145 million damages to Canada’s WiLan against Apple
Apple plans to appeal…
Slavish copier Samsung appeals $539 million verdict for peddling Apple iPhone knockoffs
The jury may have made a decision, but the fight isn’t over…
Apple’s $539 million in damages is a ‘huge loss’ for iPhone knockoff peddler Samsung
Samsung Electronics Co. took a gamble when it appealed a finding it infringed Apple Inc.’s smartphone design patents…
Apple wins $538.6 million from Samsung in latest iPhone patent retrial
Nearly six years after a federal jury awarded Apple over $1 billion in damages against Samsung…
Original Mac designer Susan Kare takes stand in Apple v. Samsung trial
Two Apple expert witnesses took the stand in the recently restarted Apple v. Samsung patent trial on Wednesday…
Apple executive admits Steve Jobs ‘bet the company’ on the iPhone in drawn-out court case with Samsung
It’s been eight years since the original iPhone was first released, but Apple still regards…
Apple wants $1 billion from Samsung at iPhone copying retrial; Samsung wants to pay just $28 million
Apple Inc. is seeking about $1 billion from Samsung Electronics Co. in another go-round stemming from…
Samsung tries to further reduce Apple’s iPhone patent award
Samsung Electronics Co. is trying again to chip away at Apple Inc.’s long-ago patent victory…
Next Android version’s flagrant iPhone X imitation shows how little Google is innovating
Android P is still in super-duper developer-only beta mode, but you only need to look at an iPhone X…
Appeals court rules that Google infringed Oracle’s Java copyrights, orders trial on damages
A federal appeals court revived Oracle Corp.’s multibillion-dollar copyright infringement claims…
U.S. judge orders new trial to decide how much Samsung owes Apple for copying iPhone
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California issued an order late on Sunday…
Trump administration backs Apple, says Supreme Court should deny Samsung’s most recent cert petition
A few months after the Supreme Court of the United States requested the Trump Administration’s perspective…
Apple sued for patent infringement over Apple Pay
A small Boston company, founded by the inventor of a popular corporate encryption technology…
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…
Google’s next-gen watches will swipe Apple’s Digital Crown
Google has teamed up with LG in a Nexus-style partnership to produce the first devices…
Apple sues Nokia’s patent trolls; says Nokia attempting to ‘compensate for its own failing cell phone business’
Apple on Tuesday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Acacia Research Corporation and Conversant Intellectual Property Management…
Nokia sues Apple in Germany and the US for alleged infringement of Nokia patents
Nokia announced that it has today filed a number of complaints against Apple in Germany and the US…
Apple may shun South Korean bond market after a local newspaper reveals cash trail
Korean bankers are fretting that Apple may shun the country’s bond market after a local newspaper revealed…
Beleaguered BlackBerry shifts into licensing mode, sues over Android patent infringement
Over the years, BlackBerry has amassed a giant portfolio of patents, but it hasn’t used them to sue others…
Irony Alert: Samsung sues Huawei for alleged patent violations
Samsung Electronics Co. sued Chinese smartphone maker Huawei for allegedly violating six of its patents…
Apple faces sales ban of iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook Air in CALTECH Wi-Fi patent lawsuit
The California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) is gunning for Apple for allegedly violating four WiFi-related patents…
U.S. jury finds Google didn’t need Oracle license for Android’s Java code, defeating $9 billion claim; Oracle vows appeal
Google won a jury verdict that kills Oracle Corp.’s claim to a $9 billion slice of the search giant’s Android phone business…
Huawei sues Samsung over patent infringement
Huawei is suing its tech rival Samsung over claims that its patents have been infringed…
Obama nominates Lucy Koh for Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco
Lucy Koh, a federal judge in San Jose who has refereed Silicon Valley wars over patents and employment…
Immersion files complaint against Apple with U.S. ITC, lawsuit in U.S. Federal District Court
Immersion Corporation today announced that it has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission against Apple…
Apple discourages Supreme Court from hearing Samsung patent petition, calls case ‘legally unexceptional’
Apple this week attempted to dissuade the U.S. Supreme Court from hearing Samsung’s request for review…
Apple gets a sales ban on patent-infringing Samsung phones
In the latest round of the Apple v. Samsung patent war, US District Judge Lucy Koh on Monday granted an Apple motion for permanent injunction against devices…
Google urges U.S. Supreme court overturn Apple v. Samsung patent infringement ruling
Google has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Samsung’s appeal of its patent loss to Apple over the copying of iPhone technology…
Pope Francis to hold rare tech industry meeting with Google’s Eric Schmidt
The 79-year-old pontiff is clearly not naive when it comes to the power of technology. The internet, he once said, is a ‘gift from God’ because of its ability to offer…
U.S. Marshals raid Chinese hoverboard-maker’s booth at CES
Two United States Marshals raided a booth at the Consumer Electronics Show on Thursday afternoon…
Samsung urges U.S. appeals court to overturn $120 million patent verdict for Apple
A jury in 2014 made the South Korean company pay nearly $120 million to Apple Inc. for infringing three patents…
