London: Samsung Electronics defeated Apple in the latest spat in the rivals' patent wars when a British judge ruled Samsung's Galaxy tablets did not infringe the US company's designs for the iPad because they were "not as cool". In Monday's High Court judgment Judge Colin Birss said that Samsung's Galaxy tablets belonged to the same family as the Apple design when viewed from the front, but the Samsung products were...
06:50 AM, Jul 10, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook and Yahoo have agreed to settle a months-long patent dispute, averting a potentially expensive battle over the technology running two of the Internet's most popular destinations. In dropping the lawsuits, the companies agreed to license their patents to each other and form an advertising and content-sharing alliance that expands their existing partnership. Friday's settlement involves no exchange of money. Now that the antagonism is dissolving into an...
06:19 AM, Jul 07, 2012
New York: Eastman Kodak has said the US bankruptcy court has approved its bid to sell more than 1,100 patents related to digital imaging, a move aimed at restructuring the company that once led the photography market. "...Eastman Kodak Company obtained approval from the Bankruptcy Court to conduct an auction to sell its digital capture and Kodak Imaging Systems and Services (KISS) patent portfolios," the company said in a late...
03:50 PM, Jul 03, 2012
California: A US judge on Friday granted Apple Inc's request for a pre-trial injunction against the sale of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Galaxy Nexus phone, handing the iPhone maker its second legal victory against Samsung in a week. Apple and Samsung, the world's largest consumer electronics corporations, are waging legal war in several countries, accusing each other of patent violations as they vie for supremacy in a fast-growing market for...
11:08 AM, Jun 30, 2012
California: Yahoo Inc and Facebook Inc believe settlement talks in a high profile patent lawsuit would be helped if a US judge pushed back certain deadlines in the case, according to a court filing on Tuesday. Yahoo sued Facebook earlier this year, claiming the social networking company infringed 10 of Yahoo's patents, including several that cover online advertising technology. In its lawsuit, Yahoo said Facebook was considered "one of the...
12:00 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Chicago: A US judge on Wednesday strongly questioned Apple Inc's bid for an injunction against Google Inc's Motorola Mobility unit, as the iPhone maker tries to salvage its position on a key front in the smartphone patent wars. Federal Judge Richard Posner in Chicago did not make any formal rulings from the bench during the hearing, which was a chance for Apple to plead its case for an injunction against...
09:25 AM, Jun 21, 2012
New York: InterDigital Inc said on Monday it had agreed to sell to Intel Corp about 1,700 wireless technology patents for $375 million, sending InterDigital shares up 27 per cent. While Intel is pushing to expand its chip business beyond computers and into mobile devices, InterDigital for about a year has been seeking to capitalize on a surge in interest in wireless patents. InterDigital investors applauded the deal on Monday...
09:38 AM, Jun 19, 2012
San Francisco: Google lashed out at Microsoft and Nokia in a regulatory complaint, accusing them of illegally feeding mobile patents to a technology troll scavenging for billions of dollars in licensing fees that threaten to drive up the prices of cellphones and other wireless devices. The claims were spelled out Thursday in a complaint filed with the European Commission, the chief regulator on that continent. Google Inc. also shared the...
12:42 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Waterloo: Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry, is in steep decline. The company, once the crown jewel of the Canadian technology industry, is now worth 1 percent of Apple's market capitalisation. One way for RIM to stop the downward tailspin: It could sell itself to a competitor or financial firm. But who would step up to buy RIM -and why? Late Tuesday, the company said it expects...
10:27 AM, May 31, 2012
Soul: Samsung Electronics' mobile division chief JK Shin said on Sunday the South Korean technology giant was still seeking to resolve differences in its international patent war with Apple Inc.. "There is still a big gap in the patent war with Apple but we still have several negotiation options including cross-licensing," Shin told reporters at Seoul airport shortly before his departure for the United States. Asked about the prospects for...
04:22 PM, May 20, 2012
Washington: Some Motorola Mobility smartphones infringe on a Microsoft patent and will be barred from importation to the United States, a US trade panel said on Friday. The order by the US International Trade Commission has been sent to President Barack Obama, who has 60 days to consider whether to overturn it for policy reasons. The legal fight at the ITC is one of dozens globally between various smartphone makers....
01:15 PM, May 19, 2012
Helsinki: Wounded cellphone maker Nokia has turned on one of its former allies in the patent protection battlefield by filing lawsuits against rival smartphone maker HTC as it steps up its efforts to raise funds. Nokia, based in Finland, filed several lawsuits in Germany covering 45 hardware and software patents, ranging from power management to data encryption technologies against HTC, Canadian rival Research In Motion and tablet-maker ViewSonic. In the...
11:37 AM, May 03, 2012
New York: A judge for the US International Trade Commission has ruled that Apple infringed a patent held by Motorola and dismissed the rest of Motorola's claims. The ITC's six commissioners now have until August to review Tuesday's ruling. If they don't, the ruling stands. Apple Inc. and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. have accused each other of patent infringement in federal courts and the ITC. The ITC has the power...
10:37 AM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: Gideon Sundback invented the zip, a product that has been holding together much of the parts of our lives for about a century now. And Google has paid a tribute to the man with a an unzippable doodle on this 132nd birthday. Google Gideon Sundback's 132nd birthday doodle gives the appearance of a jacket front that has the Google logo embroidered on it and a zip runs through...
03:00 PM, Apr 24, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook will pay Microsoft Corp $550 million for hundreds of patents that originated with AOL, beefing up its intellectual property arsenal. The deal gives social network Facebook 650 patents and patent applications and license to another 275 patents and applications. It comes shortly before Facebook is expected to have the largest initial public offering in Silicon Valley history. Patents have become a top priority for technology companies as...
10:39 AM, Apr 24, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook will pay Microsoft Corp $550 million in cash for hundreds of patents recently sold by AOL, the social networking company's latest move to bulk up its intellectual property in the wake of a lawsuit filed by Yahoo. The deal, shortly before Facebook is expected to have the largest initial public offering in Silicon Valley history, will give the social network 650 patents and patent applications, as well...
01:50 AM, Apr 24, 2012
Bangalore: Microsoft trumped Amazon, eBay and other tech giants with its more than $1 billion purchase of the majority of AOL Inc's patent trove. AOL said it was selling more than 800 patents related to advertising, search, e-commerce and mobile to Redmond, Wash-based company, surprising investors with the size of the deal and sending AOL shares up more than 40 per cent. The sale includes technology rights from AOL's current...
10:35 AM, Apr 10, 2012
Moscow: A 10-year-old Moscow girl has become Russia's youngest inventor after she patented her own print-making method. According to the Moskovsky Komsomolets daily, Anastasia Rodimina patented her own method of monotyping - a print-making technique when a smooth surface is covered by paint and a piece of paper then pressed to it to make a single print. Under Rodimina's patented method, which she named "energoinformation monotyping", a monotype is covered...
01:04 PM, Apr 07, 2012
London: Google has been awarded a patent on technology that will serve up targeted advertising based on a smartphone user's environment, The Telegraph reported Friday. The web giant envisages advertising based on the local weather conditions, detected by sensors in a mobile device. "When determining what ads to serve to end users, the environmental factors can be used independently or in combination with matching of keywords associated with the advertisements...
12:40 PM, Mar 24, 2012
Menlo Park: Facebook has acquired patents from IBM as it girds itself for litigation, including a lawsuit by Yahoo. A company spokesman on Thursday confirmed the purchase but did not provide details. Earlier, Bloomberg News said Facebook acquired 750 patents covering technologies dealing with software and networking. It cited a person with knowledge of the transaction who was not named in the report Thursday. Last week, Yahoo Inc. sued Facebook,...
12:31 PM, Mar 23, 2012
