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Apple really didn't appreciate seeing Samsung win the appeal in Australia, the one that lifted the ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1, so it figured it would raise its voice a little more.
At least that's what we would say if “a little more” wasn't such a massive understatement.
We'll just... |
3 February 2012
09:27 GMT |
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Motorola seems to have succeeded where Samsung has, so far, failed: it got a bunch of Apple products removed from the online German Apple store. The products affected are the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and 3G iPad 2, though they are still up for order through authorized dealers and German Apple retailers. It is reporte... |
3 February 2012
09:02 GMT |
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Even though Samsung won against Apple in The Netherlands, ensuring freedom of movement for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, its efforts to ban the Apple iPhone 4S aren't bearing any fruit. It wasn't so long ago that an Italian court ruled against Samsung in their ongoing patent fight. Now, Germany's Man... |
28 January 2012
06:20 GMT |
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Looks like the turmoil of patent infringement lawsuits is not even in the least bit over for Samsung, as its Galaxy Tab was targeted again, by Kodak this time.
Kodak has definitely stopped playing nice now that its financial position and existence as a brand is being threatened more than ever before.
What it did ... |
19 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has sided with Apple in a patent suit against smartphone maker HTC by ruling that the latter has, indeed, violated Apple-patented inventions, thus banning the import of several HTC handsets in the US. Gadgets cited in the suit included key names like the Sprint ... |
20 December 2011
08:21 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung plans on putting an end to the legal battle it started against Apple in its homeland market, and will no longer pursue the blocking of iPhone devices in the country on alleged patent infringement.
The iPhone 4S has just become available for purchase on the local market, but t... |
14 November 2011
08:44 GMT |
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There is no rest for the legally troubled, apparently, as Samsung is learning right now, after it ended up losing another court action, this time against a graduate of Korea's Hongik University.
According to this report, the court ruled that Samsung had, indeed, committed copyright infringement by refusing to ... |
31 October 2011
05:38 GMT |
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VIA Technologies, Inc, makers of x86 processors, are suing Apple Inc. in the US District Court of Delaware for patent infringement by the chips found inside the iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Apple TV.VIA is a fabless supplier of power-efficient x86 processors that, according to the company, “are driving system innova... |
23 September 2011
03:53 GMT |
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Single Touch Systems Inc., a provider of media solutions for mobile devices, today announced that on September 8th, 2011, the company issued a “Letter of Notification” to Apple Inc. regarding Single Touch’s issued patents directed to streaming and routing media.Single Touch Systems touts itself as a... |
13 September 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Wi-LAN Inc., a software and hardware company that designs, develops and manufactures solutions for the multimedia and cable television industries, has sued Apple over an alleged patent infringement by its wireless-capable products.
Since it was founded in 1992, WiLAN has licensed its intellectual property to over ... |
2 September 2011
13:21 GMT |
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Openwave Systems Inc. has filed a complaint against Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc. claiming that legal action was the only way to protect its intellectual property used by iOS devices without a license to connect to the Internet. Blackberry smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) is also sued under the s... |
31 August 2011
13:12 GMT |
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It seems that Samsung has started to lose its fight in court against Apple, as yet another judge rules against the South Korean mobile phone maker.
A ruling issued by a judge in The Hague is prohibiting “the marketing of Samsung smartphones Galaxy S, S II and Ace for violation of Apple Inc. EP 2,058,868.&r... |
24 August 2011
10:08 GMT |
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Apple infringes two patents of S3 Graphics Co. Ltd, ITC Judge E. James Gildea has ruled after concluding that the Cupertino-based Mac maker giant, unlike other tech giants, was using S3 Graphics compression technology without a license. The parent company of S3 Graphics Inc., based in Fremont, Calif., and other subs... |
4 July 2011
02:55 GMT |
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The spat between Apple and Samsung is taking new proportions with court documents now showing that Apple is reinforcing its copycat accusations with heavier and more detailed phrasing, as well as the addition of new Samsung products and patents that are subject to infringement.
In the documents, obtained by Foss P... |
17 June 2011
14:51 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has just announced that it has filed three lawsuits against the United States-based computer maker Apple, actively responding to a patent infringement lawsuit Apple filed in the United States against Samsung.The leading handset vendor claims that Apple is infringin... |
22 April 2011
04:59 GMT |
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When it rains, it pours, and when it comes to lawsuits involving Apple and other telecoms companies, there is always room for one more. The latest one was filed against South Korean handset vendor Samsung, and some of its Android-based devices. To be more precise, Apple feels that Samsung's Galaxy S 4G, Epic 4G... |
19 April 2011
06:57 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has filed a second complaint against Apple with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC), alleging that the company is infringing even more Nokia patents with its mobile phones and portable music players, as well as with its tablets and computers.According to Nokia'... |
29 March 2011
14:21 GMT |
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On Moday, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has announced the filing of legal actions in the International Trade Commission and the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Washington against Barnes & Noble, Inc., Foxconn International Holdings Ltd. and Inventec Corporation, for patent infringement. The b... |
22 March 2011
08:40 GMT |
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Ancora Technologies, a company based in Sherman Oaks, Calif., has filed a lawsuit against Apple in a U.S. District Court in the Central District of California, claiming ownership of U.S. Patent No 6,411,941, entitled "Method of Restricting Software Operation Within a License Limitation," which Apple’s iOS devic... |
5 January 2011
06:29 GMT |
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It would appear that even the last days of 2010 are ready to welcome, so to speak, another legal dispute, this time arisen between none other than Sony and LG, as the former claims the latter's products infringe its patents.Patent infringement lawsuits are all too common in the IT industry, as licensing compani... |
30 December 2010
07:03 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just announced the filing of patent infringement complaints against Apple in the UK High Court, Dusseldorf and Mannheim District Courts in Germany and the District Court of the Hague, Netherlands.According to the leading handset vendor, Apple is infringing a large number of its p... |
16 December 2010
10:01 GMT |
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It seems that filing lawsuits during the holiday season is starting to become a sort of tradition now that Rambus has once again called a number of companies to court, one of them being, some might say unsurprisingly, NVIDIA.Rambus has been meeting the likes of NVIDIA, IBM and others in court for years and it seems ... |
2 December 2010
02:17 GMT |
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Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC and Intellectual Ventures (IV) recently announced that they have signed a long-term licensing agreement and strategic alliance. According to the agreement, HTC is receiving rights under IV's patent portfolio, which means that it will have access to IV's more than 30,000 pa... |
25 November 2010
05:24 GMT |
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Motorola’s countersuit against Microsoft was to be expected, Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing, Microsoft Corporation confirmed for Softpedia. The two companies are currently in a legal face-off related to their respective intellectual... |
12 November 2010
04:46 GMT |
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Motorola Mobility, a Motorola Inc. subsidiary, has announced that it has filed complaints against Microsoft over infringement of sixteen patents by Microsoft’s PC and Server software, Windows mobile software and Xbox products.Motorola's action follows Microsoft's recent court complaint that the handse... |
11 November 2010
03:31 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announced on Friday that it filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission against mobile phone maker Motorola, alleging that the handset vendor is infringing a series of 9 Microsoft patents with its Android-based devices. According to the company, Motorola's An... |
2 October 2010
04:54 GMT |
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A company going by the name of Multi-Format has filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. alleging patent infringement over its invention of the concept of selling and enabling of downloaded video content like movies and HDTV programming on iTunes, a report reveals.A site focused on Apple’s patent applications breaks ... |
22 September 2010
13:29 GMT |
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A company headquartered in Malaysia is suing Apple, and other companies, for infringing a patent related to the serving of location-based ads, which is one of the iAd strong points touted by Apple.The company in question, StreetSpace, develops a remote Internet terminal known as the Web Station.It allows the average ... |
31 August 2010
04:20 GMT |
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The International Trade Commission will investigate Cupertino-based Apple, following a May complaint from Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation. According to the handset vendor, Apple's products infringe five of its patents related to cellphone directory hardware and software and to power-management techn... |
12 June 2010
05:54 GMT |
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Back in 2003, German-based company Medien Patent Verwaltung (MPV) previewed and disclosed its anti-piracy tools for Warner Bros, Technicolor and Deluxe at their request. Now, after seven years, the company decided to file a patent-infringement lawsuit against all those companies mentioned above. MPV claims that War... |
29 May 2010
06:54 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed the debut of legal action against CRM rival Salesforce.com, alleging willful intellectual-property violation. Via a lawsuit filed in the federal court of Seattle, the Redmond company is accusing Salesforce.com of patent infringement with its customer management relationship products, and is s... |
19 May 2010
04:46 GMT |
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Apple has reportedly filed new claims of patent infringement against Kodak with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). Apple’s filing lists two USPTO granted patents, one for “System and method for using a unified memory architecture to implement a digital camera device,” the other for &ldqu... |
14 May 2010
05:49 GMT |
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HTC Corporation, worldwide leading smartphone maker, has just filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC), asking for all imports and sales of Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod in the United States to be halted. According to the company, these products infringe five of its patents,... |
13 May 2010
04:35 GMT |
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On Friday, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia announced the filing of a complaint against Apple with the Federal District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin. According to the leading handset vendor, the Apple iPhone and iPad 3G devices infringe a number of five important Nokia patented technologies. The ... |
10 May 2010
08:24 GMT |
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Klausner Technologies recently announced that it had filed suit against the Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation. According to the company, the handset vendor is infringing its patent in Visual Voicemail technologies. Moreover, the company also revealed that the handset that infringed the patent was the MyTo... |
27 April 2010
03:38 GMT |
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Apple is one of the 22 companies sued by a company that has alleged the infringement of 14 separate patents over mobile processors. Specifically named in the suit are the iPhone 3GS, and the iPod touch (with 32GB and 64GB capacities). Other devices named are the Motorola Droid, Palm Pre, Google Nexus One, and Nokia N... |
23 March 2010
04:47 GMT |
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After being sued by Apple for allegedly infringing on 20 patents related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware, HTC disagrees with said legal actions, the company has announced in a report. The Taiwan-based vendor of smartphones has also reiterated its commitment to creating a por... |
18 March 2010
03:49 GMT |
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Cupertino-based Apple seems set to take on everybody when it comes to the iPhone-like features present on today's handsets on the market. The company already sued Finnish handset vendor Nokia, the leading company in the mobile-phone space, and now it has gone after the Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC Corporati... |
2 March 2010
11:03 GMT |
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Apple has issued a press release announcing it has sued HTC, the well-known Taiwan-based manufacturer of smartphones based primarily on Microsoft's Windows Mobile software, but also on the Android operating system. According to the suit, HTC smartphones borrow key architecture and hardware elements from Apple&rs... |
2 March 2010
10:30 GMT |
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The legal battle between Cupertino-based Apple and Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia will continue in the United States, it seems, as the U.S. International Trade Commission announced recently that it would investigate Apple's complaint against Nokia. Apple's complaint includes alleged patent infringements,... |
22 February 2010
03:25 GMT |
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Cupertino-based company Apple will be investigated by the U.S. International Trade Commission following a complaint filed by Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia in December, which alleges that the iPhone, iPod and other wireless electronic communications devices from Apple are infringing a series of patents it holds in... |
27 January 2010
09:17 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola announced on Friday that it filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) against Canadian handset vendor Research In Motion. The complaint from Motorola alleges that RIM engaged in unfair trade practices by the importation and sale of RIM products that infringe on f... |
23 January 2010
03:36 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia, as many of you might already know, is engaged at the moment in a legal dispute with Cupertino-based Apple, as each company claims that the other one has infringed a series of patents it owns. The battle was started by Nokia, which sued Apple over allegedly infringed essential patent... |
5 January 2010
05:52 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has announced today that it has filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC), stating that computer maker Apple is infringing Nokia patents in almost all of the products it delivers to the market. According to the leading handset vendor, Apple's m... |
29 December 2009
11:07 GMT |
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Cupertino-based company Apple announced on Friday that it filed a law suit against worldwide mobile phone leader Nokia. According to the company, the countersuit comes in response to a lawsuit Nokia filed against Apple back in October. Apple claims that the leading handset vendor is infringing 13 of its patents. Bruc... |
12 December 2009
05:29 GMT |
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Klausner Technologies, Inc. announced on Monday that it filed suits against Canadian Mobile phone maker Research In Motion and against Motorola, Inc. for patent infringements regarding the Visual Voicemail. Klausner Technologies is a company that owns a number of 25 patents all around the world, on the basic Visual ... |
24 November 2009
05:26 GMT |
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Finnish mobile-phone maker Nokia announced not too long ago that it sued Apple due to a patent infringement that involved the GSM, UMTS and WLAN connectivity standards used in the iPhone, and it seems that the Cupertino-based company might see itself in the position to pay up to $1 billion in case it loses the lawsui... |
24 October 2009
07:10 GMT |
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TomTom, a Netherlands-based vendor of Linux-based car navigation devices, agreed to play to Microsoft's tune in the Redmond company's intellectual property licensing ballet after it was sued for patent infringement. TomTom looked for a brief period of time like it was more than ready to stand its ground an... |
31 March 2009
08:55 GMT |
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Microsoft is finding itself on the spot yet again because of intellectual property infringement claims made by BackWeb Technologies. BackWeb has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court in San Francisco, California, accusing the software giant that it is violating no less than four of its patents with the ... |
26 March 2009
07:21 GMT |
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A new Microsoft patent-infringement lawsuit, filed on February 25, 2009, by the Redmond company against TomTom NV and Tom Tom, Inc., also involves the Linux open source operating system. The software giant alleges that TomTom, a maker of in-car navigation devices, is violating no less than eight items on its intellec... |
26 February 2009
04:15 GMT |
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