Apple sued for alleged patent infringement in iPhone and iPad
EPL Holdings on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Apple (AAPL) claiming the consumer electronics giant stole its media playback technology in the iPhone and iPad. According …
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Apple and Google: Kodak’s patents will be both of ours, we’ll just keep them at my house
Tech companies’ reaction to the Kodak patent auction so far can be summed up thusly: “C’mon, do we really have to pay good money for …
Samsung only made $519 million on alleged iPhone clones, not $2.4 billion as Apple suggests
Apple (AAPL) claims that Samsung (005930) earned $2.4 billion on smartphones and tablets that stole the company’s protected designs and technology. The South Korean electronics …
Patent trial judge begs Apple to put down the crack pipe, wrap up its case
Justice Lucy Koh has not been afraid to bust heads during the Apple (AAPL) v. Samsung (005930) patent trial. On Thursday, she issued an epic …
Apple: Google saw Samsung ripping off the iPad and demanded new designs, Samsung wouldn’t listen
The Apple (AAPL) v. Samsung (005930) patent trial of the century has cooled off a bit since the hits poured out last week, but a …
Judge warns Apple and Samsung that they both could get burned by verdict, advises settlement
Judge Lucy Koh on Wednesday gave Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (005930) one more chance to settle their differences before something happens that they might regret. …
Samsung: Apple stole the iPad’s design from a tablet it saw a decade earlier
We’re starting to see a theme develop here. Now that it’s Samsung’s (005930) turn to present its case in the San Jose, California patent trial …
Samsung: Whether or not we ripped off Apple’s tech, Apple stole it to begin with
As the end of the epic soap opera that is the Apple (AAPL) v. Samsung (005930) trial draws near, Samsung’s turn at the plate kicked …
Apple to Samsung: We licensed essential patents to Microsoft while you refused and just copied us
During testimony in the Apple (AAPL) vs. Samsung (005930) patent trial on Monday, the Cupertino-based company’s patent licensing director Boris Teksler revealed that Apple had previously …
American Bar Association’s top design patent expert says Samsung is toast
InformationWeek on Monday caught up with Christopher Carani, chairman of the American Bar Association’s design rights committee and former chair of the American Intellectual Property Law Association …
It looks like Apple has another copied design to sue Samsung over
Apple’s (AAPL) lawyers are a busy bunch these days, what with the U.S. patent trial of the century currently underway. Regardless of where the chips …
Google doesn’t really seem to care if Samsung gets slaughtered in current Apple trial
Google (GOOG) is always willing to help out its Android manufacturing partners, but only if they’re getting sued over patents related to Android. Unnamed sources …
Apple sold more smartphones in two quarters than Samsung sold in two years in the U.S.
Between June 2010 and June 2012, Samsung (005930) sold a whole lot of smartphones in the United States. According to records the company was forced …
RIM dodges $150 million bullet
Bullets keep flying Research In Motion’s (RIMM) way, but this time the company managed to dodge one. A jury in a Northern California court recently …
Amazon wants in on the patent suit racket
Amazon (AMZN) has apparently grown tired of letting Apple (AAPL), Samsung (005930), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG) have all the fun with patent litigation. Reuters reports …
132-page internal document shows how Samsung set out to copy the iPhone pixel by pixel
An internal memo from February 2010 emerged in the Apple (AAPL) vs. Samsung (005930) trial on Monday that was fairly damaging to Samsung’s case. In …
Samsung: The iPhone is like ‘heaven’ and we’re stuck on Earth
For those who haven’t been following the news from San Jose, California, Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (005930) are suing each other. Again. We’ve seen a number of daggers …
Maybe Samsung did copy Apple’s icons
As the second week of litigation between Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (005930) kicked off on Monday, the Cupertino-based company presented a new set of evidence …
Microsoft’s patent pressure pays off: $800M in fees from Samsung, HTC dwarf Q2 Windows Phone sales
Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows Phone platform continues to struggle but its income from the smartphone industry is booming. How is this possible? Simple: patent royalties. Microsoft …
Apple is freaking out over top-secret market research being used in patent trial [updated]
Remember when Steve Jobs famously said that Apple (AAPL) did “no market research” to figure out what consumers want? Well, it turns out that wasn’t …
Poll: Did Samsung rip off Apple’s designs?
Did Samsung rip off Apple’s designs? The Apple (AAPL) vs. Samsung (005930) tech trial of the century kicked off on Monday, and a lot of people seem to already …
Pay up, patent trolls: New legislation would force failed plaintiffs to pay defendants’ legal bills
Now that judges from around the world are going off on regular rants about the insanity of the current patent system, the United States Congress …
Judge says Samsung can’t waste jury’s time with accusations that Apple ripped off sci-fi movies
Add Judge Lucy Koh to the list of jurists who are fed up with silly patent arguments. All Things D reports that Koh on Thursday shot down …
Dozens of iPhone, iPad prototype images emerge from trial
The latest trial in the ongoing saga that is Apple (AAPL) versus the world kicked off this week as the company set its sights on …
Microsoft to Motorola: Pay us and we’ll leave you alone
Microsoft (MSFT) doesn’t enjoy beating up nerds, it just wants their lunch money. At least, that’s the message Microsoft was apparently trying to send to …
Google toys with major Android redesign as patent wars heat up
The always-eagle-eyed PatentBolt has spotted a new patent application from Google (GOOG) that indicates the company is designing a way to bring radial menus to its …
Samsung ripped off the iPhone’s design? Not so fast…
It’s inevitable: some full touchscreen phones are going to look like other full touchscreen phones. Just ask LG (066570), which saw its LG Prada design …
Apple saves face, doesn’t have to place ‘Samsung didn’t copy us’ newspaper ads… yet
As the patent war between Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (005930) continues to heat up in the United States, Apple has won another small victory abroad, albeit temporarily. …
iPhone prototype photos show what could have been – and what’s coming from the iPhone 5
The forthcoming U.S. trial between Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (005930) in San Jose will apparently be good for more than just incessant barking from both sides. So far Samsung has …
Best Buy: Customers returned Samsung tablets because they thought they were getting iPads
Here come some more juicy tidbits from recently unsealed documents tied to the upcoming Apple (AAPL) vs. Samsung (005930) extravaganza! From rejected settlement offers to muscle …
