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Tag: patents

Apple says Motorola’s essential wireless patents are at best worth $1 per iPhone

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2:36 pmWednesday, October 31, 201212 Comments

Five days ahead of a FRAND contract trial in the Western District of Wisconsin…

Apple hit with patent infringement lawsuit over FaceTime and Messages

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 10:25 am8 Comments

The company claims that Apple’s Messages and FaceTime applications found in iOS and OS X infringe…

U.S. ITC judge rules Samsung infringed on Apple’s patented intellectual property

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 5:45 pm5 Comments

Judge Thomas Pender said that Samsung is, in fact violating Apple’s iPhone design patent…

Apple’s Siri allegedly infringes on patent from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professors

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 5:05 pm26 Comments

Apple is being sued for allegedly infringing on a patent filed in 2001 by two professors…

Apple loses Dutch multi-touch patent case against Samsung

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 9:03 am24 Comments

Apple Inc. lost a Dutch court ruling in a patent lawsuit over Samsung…

Apple granted new patents for iPhone 3D modeling app, Apple TV, iChat, iPhone 5 LTE and more

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:01 am6 Comments

The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published an incredible series…

Japanese court rejects two of Samsung’s patent infringement claims against Apple

Monday, October 22, 2012 12:31 pm4 Comments

About a year ago, Samsung had brought three claims against the iPhone 4S…

Eric Schmidt: ‘Android-Apple platform fight is the defining fight in the industry today’

Thursday, October 11, 2012 8:59 amThursday, October 11, 201238 Comments

The Android-Apple platform fight is the defining fight in the industry today…

UN agency’s roundtable on wireless patent litigation reflects deep divisions between Apple, Google, Samsung, and others

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 5:03 pmWednesday, October 10, 20125 Comments

Today the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN agency that co-developed…

Google’s good-guy patent routine questioned by authorities

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 2:36 pm21 Comments

Google is caught once again playing up their ‘good guy’ routine…

Apple granted U.S. patent for point of sale system and more

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 3:29 pmTuesday, October 9, 20122 Comments

Apple has received a Granted Patent that relates to a Point-of-Sale System…

Thermonuclear War: What would happen if Apple buys Nokia?

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 11:02 am55 Comments

Apple is sitting on about $100-billion in cash….

Google’s Motorola Mobility pulls most smartphones, all tablets from German market after patent infringement rulings

Monday, October 8, 2012 2:21 pm17 Comments

The company that Google bought for $12.5 billion to protect Android from patent threats cannot even protect itself…

Why Apple’s Steve Jobs turned Apple into a patent warrior

Monday, October 8, 2012 10:16 am18 Comments

Almost every major technology company is involved in ongoing patent battles…

Apple patent reveals new concept notebook and translucent 3D trackpad

Saturday, October 6, 2012 1:30 pm16 Comments

A new Apple invention that was discovered…

Here’s the Apple licensing deal that Samsung rejected

Thursday, October 4, 2012 12:31 pmThursday, October 4, 201220 Comments

Apple proposed a reciprocal agreement regarding cross-licensing patents to Samsung…

Apple patent application reveals new headset with unique wireless option

Thursday, October 4, 2012 11:36 am6 Comments

A newly-published patent application from Apple reveals a rather inventive new headset…

Apple touted its ‘strong and growing’ UMTS patent portfolio in cross-licensing offer to Samsung

Wednesday, October 3, 2012 3:32 pmWednesday, October 3, 201210 Comments

This week, a variety of unredacted Apple v. Samsung documents were filed after Judge Koh…

Samsung adds iPhone 5 to eight patent complaints against Apple

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 11:28 amTuesday, October 2, 201214 Comments

Samsung’s latest court-based pot shot at Apple adds the iPhone 5…

Ameranth sues Apple over their new Passbook ticketing system

Monday, October 1, 2012 4:32 pmMonday, October 1, 201221 Comments

A California base company by the name of Ameranth has filed a patent infringement…

Apple sued for patent infringement over Numbers spreadsheet

Friday, September 28, 2012 6:01 pmFriday, September 28, 201245 Comments

Apple has been sued by a Texas-based company for allegedly infringing on a patent…

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt claims Apple is patent bully, but Google stands for innovation

Thursday, September 27, 2012 7:33 pmThursday, September 27, 201266 Comments

Google chairman Eric Schmidt is currently on a tour of Asia, where he announced…

Apple patents in-screen speakers, flexible displays and tactile keyboards for future iPhones, iPads

Thursday, September 27, 2012 5:33 pmThursday, September 27, 20128 Comments

Apple has published a new patent today, one that takes the possibilities…

How many Apple and Microsoft patents has Google’s Android infringed?

Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:32 amThursday, September 27, 201213 Comments

The total, adjusted for rulings that have gone both for and against Android, is now…

New patent infringement lawsuit against Apple relates to targeted advertising

Monday, September 24, 2012 4:05 pm17 Comments

A Delaware company by the name of B.E. Technology doing business in Memphis…

Unwired Planet Inc. files lawsuit against Apple Inc. claiming patent infringement

Thursday, September 20, 2012 5:08 pm16 Comments

A Reno Nevada company by the name of Unwired Planet Inc….

U.S. ITC decides to investigate Google’s Motorola Mobility patent complaint against Apple

Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:42 pm6 Comments

The Commission, the six-member decision-making body at the top of the U.S. trade agency, has just decided…

Uh oh, Android: Apple wins German injunction against Google’s Motorola Mobility over patent infringement

Friday, September 14, 2012 1:30 pmFriday, September 14, 201232 Comments

Apple Inc. Thursday won an injunction against Google Inc.’s Motorola unit…

Woz: I hate the Apple v. Samsung verdict; I don’t think it will survive appeal

Thursday, September 13, 2012 6:29 pmThursday, September 13, 2012111 Comments

Samsung, which uses Google’s Android mobile operating system…

Apple scores major patent win over Android: German court issues injunction against Google’s Motorola Mobility

Thursday, September 13, 2012 12:07 pmThursday, September 13, 201227 Comments

Motorola Mobility tablets and smartphones were all found to infringe. Google is losing the smartphone patent war in the United States and in Europe…

Apple granted 27 U.S. patents covering MIMO LTE antenna, cellular MacBooks, and more

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 3:00 pmTuesday, September 11, 20123 Comments

The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of twenty-seven…

Why Apple shares lost 3% after hitting string of new all-time highs

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 12:31 pmTuesday, September 11, 201217 Comments

So much for “buy the rumor, sell the news”…

U.S. judge: HTC patents likely valid in Apple suit; U.S. ban of iPhone and iPad devices possible

Monday, September 10, 2012 2:33 pmMonday, September 10, 201235 Comments

Apple Inc. may face a difficult task invalidating two HTC Corp. patents…

Apple’s Krall leads victory over Samsung in Steve Jobs’ global smartphone war

Monday, September 10, 2012 8:24 am7 Comments

If Apple Inc.’s patent litigation is the ‘thermonuclear war’ over smartphones…

Is Samsung copying Apple’s patented earphones? It sure looks like it

Saturday, September 8, 2012 1:03 pmSaturday, September 8, 201230 Comments

Apple was granted two patents covering their earphones…

Samsung states the obvious: Android’s multitouch software isn’t as good as Apple’s iOS

Friday, September 7, 2012 8:29 pm25 Comments

Samsung swears in court that the way Android’s multitouch software works is not as good as Apple’s…

Apple patent application reveals future iPad with backside controls for gaming

Thursday, September 6, 2012 5:01 pmThursday, September 6, 201215 Comments

There’s great news for gamers this morning…

Apple did not infringe Mirror Worlds patent, court rules

Tuesday, September 4, 2012 3:32 pmTuesday, September 4, 201211 Comments

Apple Inc. won its appeal of a U.S. patent-infringement verdict related…

Apple files amended complaint, adds Samsung Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note, Note 10.1 to list of patent infringing devices

Saturday, September 1, 2012 9:42 amSaturday, September 1, 201244 Comments

Apple on Friday filed an amended complaint with the U.S. District Court…

Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary sues Apple over QuickTime and iOS devices

Friday, August 31, 2012 11:30 amFriday, August 31, 201220 Comments

Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary Multimedia Patent Trust has sued…

Google looks to sell Motorola’s set-top box business

Thursday, August 30, 2012 4:31 pmThursday, August 30, 201215 Comments

Google Inc. wants to sell the unit within Motorola Mobility that sells…

Google’s Motorola Mobility inks standard-essential patent license deal with Apple in Germany

Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:01 pmTuesday, August 28, 20127 Comments

In the aftermath of Apple’s resounding U.S. court victory over Samsung…

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