California: A US judge scheduled a trial between Oracle Corp and Google Inc for April 16, 2012, over claims Google violated Oracle's intellectual property rights relating to the Java programming language, according to a ruling on Tuesday. The trial is set to take place in a San Francisco federal court. Oracle sued Google in 2010, alleging the Web search leader's Android mobile operating technology infringes Oracle's Java patents. In addition...
11:05 AM, Mar 14, 2012
Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co said on Wednesday it has filed another lawsuit against Apple Inc in South Korea, claiming the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 infringed on three of its patents. The move escalates the tension between the firms as they vie for dominance of the mobile device market, after a series of legal clashes in Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands. Samsung said the fresh suit, filed on Tuesday to...
03:18 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Berlin: A German court has dismissed patent lawsuits by technology giants Apple and Samsung against each other in the two companies' battle over the market for smartphones and tablet devices. Mannheim state court spokesman Joachim Bock said judges dismissed both cases involving alleged patent infringements of the companies' respective slide-to-lock technology on mobile devices. Samsung Electronics welcomed Friday's dismissal of Apple's case against the firm, but vowed to appeal the...
10:49 AM, Mar 03, 2012
San Francisco: Yahoo has demanded licensing fees from Facebook for use of its technology, the companies said on Monday, potentially engulfing social media in the patent battles and lawsuits raging across much of the tech sector. Yahoo has asserted claims on patents that include the technical mechanisms in the Facebook's ads, privacy controls, news feed and messaging service, according to a source briefed on the matter. Representatives from the two...
01:00 PM, Feb 28, 2012
California: Apple Inc did not infringe patented technology owned by Android phonemaker HTC Corp, the US International Trade Commission said on Friday, the latest ruling in the wide-ranging smartphone patent wars. The complaint - one of several the two companies have filed against each other - is a proxy for the larger fight for market share between Apple's products and Google Inc's Android software for cellphones and tablets, many of...
10:01 AM, Feb 18, 2012
New Delhi: Apple has been awarded a fresh set of 19 patents bu the US Patent and Trademark Office, of which one is for the design of the MacBook Air, a product design that has inspired a number of clones. Initially among netbooks and now in ultrabooks. Apple has been involved in a number of legal battles, most significantly with Samsung alleging that the South Korean electronics giant copied the...
02:16 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New York: Apple Inc has asked a bankruptcy court for permission to sue Eastman Kodak, accusing it of infringing its patents. In a court filing on Tuesday in New York federal bankruptcy court, Apple said it wanted to file a complaint against Kodak at the International Trade Commission. Apple said the suit would seek to bar Kodak from importing various products, such as printers and digital cameras, that it believes...
10:33 AM, Feb 16, 2012
New York: Apple Inc has asked a federal court in California to block Samsung Electronics Co Ltd from selling its new Galaxy Nexus smartphones, alleging patent violations. In a suit filed last week in San Jose, Apple said the Galaxy Nexus infringes on patents underlying features customers expect from its products. Those include the ability to unlock phones by sliding an image and to search for information by voice. Samsung...
11:05 AM, Feb 13, 2012
Los Angeles: Apple sued Motorola Mobility in a US court on Friday in an attempt to stop Motorola from asserting some patent claims against Apple in Germany, according to the lawsuit. The suit, filed in a San Diego federal court, argues that Motorola's German lawsuit against Apple breaches terms of a patent licensing agreement between Motorola and Qualcomm. Apple and Motorola are engaged in global patent litigation, part of a...
10:59 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Duesseldorf: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's reworked tablet PC does not look like a copycat version of the iPad, a German court said, affirming a preliminary assessment and dealing another legal blow to Apple Inc. Apple is fighting several rival makers of smartphones and tablet PCs in courts worldwide over intellectual property. Samsung changed the design of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 for the German market - naming it Galaxy Tab 10.1N...
06:32 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Frankfurt: Apple Inc. has temporarily blocked Motorola Mobility's attempt to have it withdraw several iPhone and iPad models from its Internet store in Germany, the latest twist in an extended legal duel over patents between the companies. The sale of the devices was briefly halted after Libertyville, Ill.-based Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. enforced a ruling it won against Ireland-based Apple Sales International Inc., from a court in Mannheim, Germany. The...
12:58 PM, Feb 04, 2012
San Francisco: A patent application published by the US Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday showed that Apple is working on a universal touchscreen remote capable of controlling multiple devices, shedding lights on the company's much-anticipated plan on a smart TV product. The patent, titled "Apparatus and Method to Facilitate Universal Remote Control" was filed Septmeber 30, 2011, said that the remote will be capable of controlling multiple devices including...
03:47 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Amsterdam: Apple again lost a bid on Tuesday to have Samsung tablet computers banned in the Netherlands in a Dutch appeals case over infringing copyrights of its iPad tablet computer. Apple, which has been locked in legal battles with Samsung in almost a dozen countries involving smartphones and tablets, had appealed a Dutch ruling, which said last year Galaxy Tab 10.1 models were not a copy of Apple's iPad. A...
05:58 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Washington: Motorola Mobility Inc did not violate Apple's patented technology in making its Droid, Cliq, BackFlip and other smartphones, a judge at the US International Trade Commission said in a preliminary decision issued on Friday. The full ITC will issue a final decision in March. Apple had filed a complaint with the ITC in October of 2010, accusing Motorola Mobility of infringing three Apple patents to make its smartphones. Two...
11:33 AM, Jan 14, 2012
New York: The struggling Eastman Kodak Co on Tuesday sued Apple Inc, whose market value is more than 2,400 times greater, accusing it of infringing four patents related to digital camera images. Kodak also sued Taiwan's HTC Corp, alleging violations of the four patents as well as a fifth. It said it filed a related complaint against both companies with the US International Trade Commission. Apple did not immediately respond...
08:58 AM, Jan 11, 2012
Taipei: Elan Microelectronics Corp, a Taiwanese touch design company, said on Thursday that Apple Inc will pay $5 million as part of a settlement in a patent infringement case. The statement said the two companies would also exchange authorisations to use each other's patents. In 2009, Elan sued Apple in the United States over two patent infringements and the California-based giant counter-sued later the same year. The US International Trade...
04:03 PM, Jan 05, 2012
Duesseldorf: A German court rejected Apple's claims that Samsung Electronics' reworked tablet PC still looks like a copycat version of the iPad, in a preliminary assessment. Apple is fighting several rival makers of smartphones and tablet PCs in courts worldwide over intellectual property. Its battle with Samsung, which is Apple's supplier as well as a competitor, has been especially bitter, with some 30 legal cases in 10 countries. "According to...
11:46 AM, Dec 23, 2011
Washington: A US trade panel judge found Motorola Mobility infringed a Microsoft patent in making its Android cellphones, the companies said on Tuesday. The patented technology makes it possible for users to schedule meetings using mobile devices. However, the US International Trade Commission judge found there was no violation of six other patents that remained in the dispute. In a complaint filed in October 2010 with the ITC, Microsoft accused...
03:30 PM, Dec 21, 2011
Taipei: Apple Inc scored a narrow victory against Taiwan's HTC Corp in a patent lawsuit over smartphone technology that will set the stage for further battles between rival makers in the fiercely competitive market. In a case seen as a proxy for a larger fight between Google Inc's Android operating system and Apple's iOS, the US International Trade Commission ruled that HTC infringed on one of four patents Apple had...
12:38 PM, Dec 20, 2011
Taipei: Taiwanese smartphone vendor HTC Corp said on Tuesday a US trade panel's final determination was a win for HTC and it is very pleased. A company official told Reuters that HTC will launch new phones to bypass the infringed patent very soon and it sees limited impact to the company. "This decision is a win for HTC and we are gratified that the commission affirmed the judge's determination on...
10:55 AM, Dec 20, 2011
