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Tag: patents

Apple hit with lawsuit claiming patent infringement over TrueDepth Camera, Portrait Mode, the bokeh effect and more

Friday, October 12, 2018 10:01 amFriday, October 12, 201814 Comments

Apple has been sued by Yanbin Yu and Zhongxuan Zhang for infringing their patent…

Munich Court throws out Qualcomm patent infringement lawsuit against Apple: No infringement

Thursday, October 11, 2018 10:43 amThursday, October 11, 20184 Comments

The fact that the ruling came down just one week after trial…

Apple still holds the fate of Imagination Technologies one year on

Tuesday, October 9, 2018 4:01 pmTuesday, October 9, 20184 Comments

Imagination is continuing to lose staff to Apple…

20-year-old court filing comes back to haunt Qualcomm in antitrust dispute with U.S FTC

Friday, October 5, 2018 4:50 pmFriday, October 5, 20183 Comments

20 years back from tomorrow, Qualcomm itself brought a motion for partial summary judgment…

U.S. ITC judge denies Qualcomm’s request, won’t stop iPhone imports

Saturday, September 29, 2018 12:41 pmNo Comments

On Friday, U.S. International Trade Commission judge Thomas Pender found that the iPhones violate…

Qualcomm accuses Apple of stealing ‘vast swaths’ of chip secrets and passing them to Intel

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 10:00 amTuesday, September 25, 20182 Comments

Qualcomm has unveiled explosive charges against Apple for stealing…

Qualcomm dealt another blow in second ITC action against Apple

Wednesday, September 19, 2018 2:02 pmWednesday, September 19, 20184 Comments

Qualcomm’s second U.S. International Trade Commission complaint against Apple is not going as planned…

Qualcomm CEO sees chance of Apple settlement this year

Tuesday, September 18, 2018 4:11 pm5 Comments

One of the biggest legal battles in the technology industry may be entering its final stages…

Qualcomm makes a tactical error in its battle with Apple

Friday, September 7, 2018 1:45 pmFriday, September 7, 20182 Comments

Qualcomm has seemingly made a big tactical error in the pre-trial run-up…

Gene Munster: Apple has cornered the market in VCSELs, further expanding their AR lead

Wednesday, August 8, 2018 2:15 pm1 Comment

Apple’s key iPhone X augmented reality component supplier, Lumentum, reported better than expected results…

Tim Bajarin: How Apple could deliver the ‘next’ big thing in personal computing

Monday, July 16, 2018 2:04 pmMonday, July 16, 201820 Comments

From my years of tracking Apple, two very consistent threads seem to drive Apple’s strategy…

Analyst: Augmented reality could be an $8 billion revenue opportunity for Apple

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 2:08 pmTuesday, July 10, 20186 Comments

Apple’s move into augmented reality could boost iPhone and App Store sales…

Consumers contend that Qualcomm shouldn’t get import ban on Apple iPhones

Friday, June 29, 2018 9:37 am3 Comments

Qualcomm Inc. shouldn’t be able to use a U.S. trade agency to knock out Intel Corp. as a competitor…

Apple petitions U.S. Patent Office to invalidate four Qualcomm patents

Friday, June 22, 2018 10:00 amFriday, June 22, 20181 Comment

Apple Inc. filed petitions challenging four Qualcomm Inc. patents Thursday…

Legal battle may be to blame for Apple breaking Steve Jobs’ FaceTime promise

Thursday, June 7, 2018 5:35 pmThursday, June 7, 201812 Comments

At WWDC, Apple revealed that it will finally make it possible to do FaceTime group calls for up to 32 people…

Why Apple is positioned to dominate the AR/VR headset market

Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:30 pmThursday, May 31, 20186 Comments

Despite being a relatively small and young industry, the market for virtual reality and augmented reality-based devices…

Golfshot introduces Golfscape AR augmented reality feature exclusive to Apple’s iOS devices

Thursday, May 31, 2018 11:25 amThursday, May 31, 20181 Comment

Golfshot’s augmented reality feature Golfscape AR is now available for all iOS users of the Golfshot app…

Apple and EFF secure podcasting win as Supreme Court refuses case from patent troll

Tuesday, May 15, 2018 3:31 pmTuesday, May 15, 20184 Comments

Wrapping up a long-running patent fight over podcasts, the U.S. Supreme Court…

Next Android version’s flagrant iPhone X imitation shows how little Google is innovating

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 12:03 pm19 Comments

Android P is still in super-duper developer-only beta mode, but you only need to look at an iPhone X…

U.S. Court of Appeals again rules Smartflash patents asserted against Apple are invalid

Friday, April 13, 2018 8:57 am3 Comments

On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a ruling that patents…

Federal jury rules Apple must pay $502.6 million to VirnetX

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 10:35 pm17 Comments

VirnetX Holding Corp. won $502.6 million against Apple Inc. after a federal jury…

Appeals court rules that Google infringed Oracle’s Java copyrights, orders trial on damages

Tuesday, March 27, 2018 4:31 pmTuesday, March 27, 201812 Comments

A federal appeals court revived Oracle Corp.’s multibillion-dollar copyright infringement claims…

Scaffolding rises at Apple’s Fifth Avenue construction site, signaling return of iconic glass cube

Friday, March 9, 2018 11:11 pm11 Comments

Familiar cube-sized scaffolding has risen above the construction barriers at Apple’s flagship Fifth Avenue store…

Apple slapped with patent suit over Siri’s natural language abilities

Friday, March 9, 2018 1:01 pmFriday, March 9, 20187 Comments

Non-practicing entity Portal Communications on Thursday filed suit against Apple for alleged infringement…

I can’t wait to use a virtual iMac

Thursday, February 22, 2018 12:02 pmThursday, February 22, 20185 Comments

iPhones will eventually become trucks, the people who use them will do lots with them…

Inside Cupertino’s upcoming breakthrough product: Apple Glass

Thursday, February 15, 2018 11:36 amThursday, February 15, 201815 Comments

Apple is working on something big. And if all goes according to plan, that something could eventually replace the iPhone…

Apple moves toward what could be its greatest victory

Thursday, February 15, 2018 11:04 amThursday, February 15, 201810 Comments

Having played a lot of chess, I like to think about the probable strategy of secretive companies…

Apple gets support from Lawyers for Civil Justice in fight against discovery sanctions

Thursday, February 1, 2018 12:01 pmThursday, February 1, 20185 Comments

In connection with the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Qualcomm, Magistrate Judge Nathaniel Cousins…

EU fines chipmaker Qualcomm $1.2 billion for paying Apple to shut out rivals’ chips

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 8:35 am9 Comments

U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm was hit with a 997 million euro ($1.23 billion) fine by EU antitrust regulators…

Apple, Facebook, and Google met with AR headset parts suppliers during CES 2018

Friday, January 12, 2018 5:00 pmFriday, January 12, 2018No Comments

Companies are racing to be the first to get lightweight augmented reality glasses into consumers’ hands…

Graphene balls reduce a one hour battery recharge to 12 minutes

Wednesday, November 29, 2017 4:33 pmThursday, March 22, 201816 Comments

There is an ongoing battle between R&D labs to come up with new battery tech that replaces lithium-ion…

Apple countersues Qualcomm for patent infringement

Wednesday, November 29, 2017 8:58 amWednesday, November 29, 20172 Comments

Apple Inc on Thursday filed a countersuit against Qualcomm Inc, alleging that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile phone chips…

Apple acquires Canadian augmented reality headset startup Vrvana

Tuesday, November 21, 2017 11:32 pmTuesday, November 21, 2017No Comments

As Apple reportedly ramps up work to ship an augmented reality headset in 2020…

Apple working on rear-facing 3D time-of-flight sensor for 2019 iPhone

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 9:27 amTuesday, November 14, 20174 Comments

Apple Inc. is working on a rear-facing 3-D sensor system for the iPhone in 2019…

What problems will Apple’s AR glasses need to solve?

Monday, November 13, 2017 5:28 pmMonday, November 13, 201715 Comments

Apple is developing AR glasses, and an OS to make them useful…

Apple working on augmented reality headset running ‘rOS’ to ship as early as 2020

Wednesday, November 8, 2017 8:35 amWednesday, November 8, 201710 Comments

Apple aims to have technology ready for an augmented-reality headset in 2019 and could ship a product as early as 2020…

Analyst: Completely designing out Qualcomm would be a big risk for Apple

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 9:28 amWednesday, November 1, 201729 Comments

Naturally, one would expect Apple to use the threat of taking the remainder of Qualcomm’s iPhone modem business…

Apple designing next-gen iPhones, iPads that would dump Qualcomm components

Tuesday, October 31, 2017 10:25 amTuesday, October 31, 20174 Comments

Qualcomm has withheld software critical to testing its chips in iPhone and iPad prototypes…

Qualcomm’s CEO: Our legal battle with Apple can be resolved

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 11:31 amWednesday, October 18, 20177 Comments

From the outside, the current legal battle between Qualcomm and Apple over the technology…

Qualcomm faces long odds in attempt to get ban of iPhone sales and manufacturing in China

Tuesday, October 17, 2017 9:27 amTuesday, October 17, 20175 Comments

Qualcomm Inc wants to hit Apple Inc where it hurts most…

Apple, slapped with a $440 million judgement, to appeal VirnetX patent case

Monday, October 16, 2017 3:30 pmMonday, October 16, 20173 Comments

Apple lost a retrial a year ago in an ongoing patent dispute with VirnetX over secure communications protocols…

Qualcomm files lawsuits seeking China iPhone ban, escalating Apple legal fight

Friday, October 13, 2017 1:35 pmFriday, October 13, 201714 Comments

Qualcomm Inc. filed lawsuits in China seeking to ban the sale and manufacture of iPhones…

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