WSJ: Apple seeks injunction to block sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus
Apple is asking for a preliminary injunction to block US sales of the Galaxy Nexus, according to the Wall Street Journal. The current suit, filed in San Jose's federal district court on Wednesday of this past week, accuses Samsung's phone of infringin...
Apple goes after Motorola and Google with legal guns blazing
Seeks billions in damages and an injunction against the flagship Android 4.0 phone
One measure of how quickly events are unfolding in the smartphone patent wars is the number of typos appearing in Florian Mueller's FOSS Patents dispatches. The German-born blogger's coverage of the "thermonuclear war" Steve Jobs promised to unleash against Google's (GOOG) Android operating system...
Apple Sues Back At Motorola Over Qualcomm License Agreement [Report]
As Google’s proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility waits for approval from the courts, Apple has fired back at Motorola in the U.S. over a licensing agreement with chipset-maker Qualcomm. Motorola recently sued Apple over wireless technology in its iOS devices with a patent that...Apple sues Motorola in the U.S. over Qualcomm patent license
Apple, today, has filed a lawsuit against Motorola over their use of Qualcomm technology, as reported by Reuters. Apple explains that Motorola has breached a contract pertaining to their use of a patent license and “asks this Court to enjoin Motorola from prosecuting and 4 enforcing its claims against Apple in Germany.” Specifically, Apple is...
German court has dismissed Motorola’s patent lawsuit against Apple
In the slugfest between Apple and Motorola Mobility, the Cupertino company has won a round in the German courts. A judge in the Mannheim Regional Court dismissed the Motorola Mobility (MMI) lawsuit against Apple over a patent considered essential to t...
Apple wins one 3G patent dispute with Motorola in Germany
A judge in Germany has ruled that Apple does not infringe one of Motorola's claimed 3G "standards essential" patents, dismissing the related patent infringement lawsuit. The win is an important one for Apple, which has...
Motorola v. Apple 3G patent suit tossed by German court
Just a week after Motorola was awarded two significant victories in a German court over Apple, the companies' luck have changed. On Friday, a judge ruled he would not grant an injunction against Apple products on the basis of a 3G/UMTS patent claimed by Motorola.
Google Could Take 2.25% Of Every iPhone Sold After Motorola Acquisition
Google has sent letters out to various standards organizations, including the IEEE, promising to honor MMI’s patent licensing policies after it completes its planned acquisition of the company. This includes honoring MMI’s maximum go-forward per-unit royalty rate of 2.25%. This is the same rate...Google Promises To Honor Motorola’s Licencing Standards After Acquisition (This Includes Fees Imposed On Apple)
Google has sent letters out to various standards organizations, including the IEEE, promising to honor MMI’s patent licensing policies after it completes its planned acquisition of the company. This includes honoring MMI’s maximum go-forward per-unit royalty rate of 2.25%. This is the same rate...Google after 2.25% of every iPhone sale
Google is in the process of acquiring Motorola and its 17,000 patents. Everyone from analysts to tech pundits are wondering if the search company will adopt the handset maker's aggressive patent litigation strategy. Legal experts criticize Motorola f...
Chutzpah: Google also wants 2.25% of every iPhone sale
It's not enough that Google borrowed the phone's look and feel to make Android?
From Google's IEEE letter. Source: FOSS Patents. Click to enlarge.
It took a Techmeme news cycle for the import of Google's (GOOG) letter to the IEEE -- the nonprofit organization that sets technical standards for everything from AC/DC converters to Wi-Fi networks --...
Android still 1st choice among virgin smartphone buyers
The iPhone may have passed over Android in total U.S. smartphone sales, but Google’s platform still has one key advantage: it’s attracting more mobile data newbies. According to the NPD Group, 57 percent of first-time smartphone buyers last quarter chose Android handsets.
