Judge Richard A. Posner scolds Apple’s lawyers
Well-known Circuit Court Judge Richard A. Posner told Apple's lawyers that he is tired of the company's courtroom antics in its patent dispute with Motorola. According to a report in FOSS Patents, Posner writes in a recent order, "I've had my fill...
Apple wants Steve Jobs’ bio excluded from Samsung trial
If it gets its way, the jury will hear no talk of Apple waging thermonuclear war on Android
FORTUNE -- FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller has been reading through the motions Apple (AAPL) and Samsung filed in advance of their upcoming patent trial in the Northern District of California and has come across a few interesting tidbits.
Both sides...
Apple-Samsung settlement talks set (prematurely) for May
Ordered to meet on 5/21-22. But with more than 50 cases pending, it's probably too early
FORTUNE -- Tim Cook seemed to be putting some distance between himself and Steve Jobs during Tuesday's conference call when he was asked about Apple's (AAPL) flexibility in its ongoing patent disputes with the makers of Google (GOOG) Android phones.
"I've...
Facebook bid on AOL patent portfolio before Microsoft acquisition
Earlier this month, Microsoft successfully bought AOL’s portfolio of tech patents to the tune of $1.06 billion. However, according to a new report from Bloomberg News, Facebook apparently bid on the same set of patents,......
Samsung claims Apple is infringing on eight patents in California documents
Executives from Samsung and Apple may be sitting down to discuss patents and infringement, but the legal battle between the two companies is far from over. According to a report from FOSS Patents, Samsung accused Apple of infringing on eight paten...
HTC says its touchscreens don’t violate Apple patents in UK court
Apple and HTC are exchanging blows in a London court case over claims the Taiwanese manufacturer infringes on four Apple patents, says a Bloomberg report. These patents cover various multi-touch gestures, photo zooming and scrolling, slide-to-unlo...
The Samsung-Apple patent showdown isn’t over yet
Despite having agreed to send their CEOs for an in-person talks for a possible settlement in their long-running, multi-country mobile patent dispute, Samsung and Apple aren't quite done flinging patent-related accusations at each other. Late Wednesday, Samsung filed eight more claims of infringement against Apple.
Meet the mobile patent kings: Samsung and Nokia
Google, Apple and Samsung get all of the attention in the mobile patent wars, but only one of them is a true powerhouse in terms of mobile intellectual property. Samsung, along with Nokia, lead the overall mobile patent portfolio rankings, according to a new study.
Tim Cook And Samsung CEO To Meet For Patent Dispute Settlement Talks
Apple and Samsung have been trading body blows in their legal war-on-the-street for awhile now, suing and countersuing each other the Earth over for patent and IP violations. Now U.S. Judge Lucy Koh has ordered Apple CEO Tim Cook and Gee-Sung Choi to stop...Twitter Vows Never To Weaponize Their Patents, Including Pull-To-Refresh
Do you remember when Twitter patented the pull-to-refresh tech they acquired from Loren Brichter when they purchased Tweetie and made it their official, thereby effectively putting all the apps that use pull-to-refresh (like Tweetbot or even Facebook)...Oracle’s IP war against Google finally going to trial: What’s at stake
Nearly two years ago, Oracle went to court and accused Google's Android team of infringing patents and copyrights related to the Java programming language. After about 900 motions and filings, and...
German ban on Apple’s iCloud, MobileMe push email upheld
This is a victory for Motorola: Not only did the judge agree that an earlier injunction granted against Apple's cloud e-mail services should be upheld, Apple was also ordered to pay Motorola unspecified damages, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
