Victory for Apple: US trade body bans infringing HTC phones starting in April
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued its ruling on the patent battle between HTC and Apple. In a decision issued Monday, the ITC said that it had found a patent violation in some of HTC's products, issuing an...
Apple submits ‘invalid’ patents to W3C to delay Touch Events standard
International web standards organization W3C last year created the Web Events Working Group to create a standard for the way touchscreen enabled devices interact with web content. The standard is known as the W3C Touch Events Specification. Now, according to Opera browser developer Haavard, Apple is delaying the process by using “invalid or irrelevant patents”...
Apple may be using patent troll to do its legal dirty work
It appears that Apple has made a deal with patent troll Digitude Innnovations to help the company's efforts to sue nearly every major mobile device maker. Digitude earlier this month launched one of its first...
Motorola wins injunction against Apple, could spell trouble for EU sales
Motorola Mobility on Thursday won an important injunction against Apple in Germany, which could potentially bar Apple's European sales arm from selling iPhones and 3G-equipped iPads. At issue is a Motorola patent for cellul...
French court denies Samsung’s request for iPhone 4S ban
A French court has denied Samsung's request for a preliminary injunction against Apple's iPhone 4S as part of the worldwide, ongoing patent disputes between the two companies. Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents has a lengthy, in-depth analysis of the...
US court denies preliminary injunction against Samsung
Despite garnering a few preliminary injunctions against Samsung outside the US, Apple was not able to convince a US federal court to keep its products from store shelves. US District Judge Judy Koh denied Apple's request for a pr......
Galaxy Tab 10.1 back on sale in Australia thanks to appeal
Samsung has successfully appealed a preliminary injunction that barred the company from releasing its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia. A three-judge appellate panel unanimously reversed the injunction ruling, citing issues wi...
Ruling: Apple did not infringe HTC graphics patents
The International Trade Commission has sided with Apple in a patent infringement investigation brought by HTC subsidiary S3 Graphics. An initial decision found that certain Macs may have violated some of the patents asserted by S...
ITC Dismisses S3 Graphics Complaint Against Apple
The U.S. International Trade Commission has dismissed a complaint from S3 Graphics against Apple, ruling that the Cupertino company has shown no violation of the patents held by S3, and terminating the investigation. The official notice, which was first discovered by FOSS Patents, reads: Notice is...Apple patent suggests charger for multiple devices
A new patent application filed by Apple suggests the company is working on putting together a device that would charge multiple Apple products at the same time, including an iPhone or iPod and a MacBook at the same time. The patent is for a "multi...
Apple experimenting with inflatable shock mounts to drop-proof cover glass
In January we told you about a class action lawsuit filed by a Los Angeles man who describes the iPhone 4′s glass back panel as a “design flaw” and claims Apple “refuses to warn consumers” about its susceptibility to cracked glass under normal usage . We already know the iPhone 4S hasn’t made many improvements in terms...
Apple could lose German patent case vs. Samsung in January, gives up iPhone 4S firmware in Australia
In Australia, as part of discovery, Samsung got access to Apple’s Qualcomm baseband source code for the iPhone 4S (lookout for battery issues while you are in there Sammy!). Other matters appeared to be resolved, including Samsung’s access to the firmware used in the iPhone 4S’ baseband chip, supplied by Qualcomm. A software expert had...
