Washington: Apple Inc does not violate patents owned by S3 Graphics Co, the International Trade Commission said on Monday in the latest ruling in the smartphone patent wars. S3 had filed a complaint with the ITC in May 2010, accusing Apple of infringing four patents for compressing data for transmission and then decompressing it. S3 said the technology was used to make Apple iPhones, the iPad, iPod touch and some...
11:36 AM, Nov 22, 2011
Seoul: Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that it would launch a redesigned version of its 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab model in Germany as early as this week to avoid a sales ban on the tablet, which a German court said violated Apple's patents. For sales in Germany Samsung changed the design of the frame of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 model and the location of its speaker, and renamed it the "Galaxy...
12:00 PM, Nov 17, 2011
London: Thomson Reuters released its list of the 100 most innovative organisations in the world. The list dominated by technology companies includes the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Intel, LG and Motorola. The struggling Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia is not amongst the top 100. "Innovation is a means of growth and prosperity for companies and nations seeking to overcome sluggish economies and achieve competitive advantage," said David Brown, president of...
05:27 PM, Nov 15, 2011
Sydney: An Australian court has agreed to hear in March a case brought by Samsung Electronics to ban sales of Apple Inc's latest iPhone, with sales allowed to continue as normal ahead of the full hearing on alleged patent infringements. Samsung has sought to block sales of Apple's latest iPhone 4S, which went on sale in early October, by filing preliminary sales injunction requests in four countries including Australia. The...
03:16 PM, Nov 15, 2011
San Francisco: A German court granted a preliminary injunction against Apple Inc in a patent infringement case that banned the California company from selling some devices in Germany. But the ruling should not impact Apple's sales in Germany as the company sells all its product there through a local subsidiary, which was not covered by the injunction. The district court in Mannheim, Germany, said on Friday Apple may not sell...
09:52 AM, Nov 08, 2011
Brussels: EU regulators are investigating whether Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc have breached EU antitrust laws with patent infringement claims in their global legal battle, the European Commission said on Friday. The two technology companies have been locked in legal disputes in 10 countries involving smartphones and tablet computers since April. "The (European) Commission has indeed sent requests for information to Apple and Samsung concerning the enforcement of...
07:10 PM, Nov 04, 2011
Madrid: A small Spanish tablet maker has won a patent infringement battle with Apple Inc in a rare victory against the US company in its global defense of markets for its iPads, a court document showed on Wednesday. The Spanish ruling came as Apple awaits a court decision on a similar case against Samsung Electronics. Spain's Nuevas Tecnologias y Energias Catala (NT-K) has successfully appealed a 2010 injunction from a...
09:26 AM, Nov 03, 2011
Washington: Nintendo Co has won a preliminary ruling that it did not infringe two patents owned by a tiny company called Motiva LLC in making its popular Wii, according to an initial ruling issued on Wednesday. A judge at the International Trade Commission said that Nintendo did not infringe two Motiva patents in making the Wii video game. That preliminary decision will be reviewed by the commission and can be...
09:20 AM, Nov 03, 2011
New York: Kodak - the company that invented the first digital camera in 1975, and developed the photo technology inside most cellphones and digital devices - is in the midst of the worst crisis in its 131-year history. Now, caught between ruin and revival, Eastman Kodak Co. is reaching ever more deeply into its intellectual treasure chest, betting that a big cash infusion from the sale of 1,100 digital-imaging inventions...
08:47 AM, Oct 31, 2011
Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday that it has filed preliminary injunction motions in Australia and Japan requesting the courts stop the sale of Apple Inc's iPhone 4S in an escalating legal battle between the two technology giants. Samsung said earlier this month that it would seek sales bans of the latest iPhone in France and Italy less than a day after the device was unveiled, claiming the...
10:29 AM, Oct 17, 2011
New York: Eastman Kodak Co. said on Sunday that it will license thousands of patents to Imax in a deal that will supply the troubled photography company with millions of dollars. A person familiar with the agreement, but not authorised to speak with the media, said the initial deal is worth tens of millions of dollars. The agreement includes additional payments if certain milestones are met, along with patent royalties,...
08:11 AM, Oct 17, 2011
Amsterdam: A Dutch court on Friday turned down Samsung Electronics' request for an injunction against all of Apple's mobile products that use 3G telecommunications technology, denying it revenge over a similar move by Apple. The two technology giants have been locked in an acrimonious battle in 10 countries involving smartphones and tablets since April. Four patent infringement cases launched by Samsung against Apple were filed in the Netherlands alone. A...
08:59 AM, Oct 15, 2011
Sydney: An Australian court is now expected to rule next week on Apple's plea to temporarily ban sales of Samsung Electronics Co latest computer tablet on grounds that it infringed on its iPad patents. Lawyers for both companies wrapped up arguments on Tuesday at an Australian federal court and Judge Annabelle Bennett said a decision would take some time but she would aim to deliver it as quickly as possible....
11:09 AM, Oct 07, 2011
Sydney: Apple Inc has rejected an offer from South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co to help settle their tablet-computer dispute in Australia, hoping for an important court victory there in its global campaign of patent litigation. Apple has claimed Samsung's Galaxy line of mobile phones and tablets had "slavishly" copied its iPhone and iPad. It has already secured a block on the latest Galaxy tablets in Germany and is delaying their...
07:01 AM, Oct 04, 2011
Sydney: An Australian court could rule next week on an injunction sought by Apple to bar the sale of Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy 10.1 tablets in the country, a federal court judge said on Thursday. Samsung has been forced to delay the launch of its latest Galaxy tablet computer in Australia until after the court ruling on its ongoing global patent dispute with Apple. "I will do it as quickly...
04:42 PM, Sep 29, 2011
The Hague: Samsung Electronics Co and Apple Inc fought the latest battle of their patent wars on Monday when the Korean firm urged a Dutch court to ban Apple's iPads and iPhones in the Netherlands. Samsung has also filed four patents cases against Apple in The Hague and asked for a preliminary injunction against all of Apple's mobile products that use 3G technology, including iPhones and iPads. That is likely...
08:03 AM, Sep 27, 2011
New York: Verizon Wireless, the biggest US mobile provider, has taken a legal stand against Apple Inc's request to prohibit the sale of some Samsung Electronics models in the United States. "The requested injunction of certain Samsung products will harm Verizon Wireless and US consumers," Verizon said in a court filing dated September 23. "It also has the possibility of slowing the deployment of next-generation networks - such as Verizon...
03:17 PM, Sep 26, 2011
Seoul: An intensifying legal battle between Samsung Electronics Co and Apple Inc is expected to crimp growth at one of the fastest growing businesses of the Korean company, while threatening to worsen business ties with the firm's largest customer. The two technology firms have been locked in an acrimonious global battle over smartphone and tablet patents since April, and Apple has successfully blocked Samsung from selling its latest tablets in...
08:34 AM, Sep 26, 2011
South Korea: A top Samsung executive says the company will take a bolder stance in its patent battle with smartphone and tablet rival Apple, which Samsung claims has been "free riding" on its patented wireless technologies. "We'll be pursuing our rights for this in a more aggressive way from now on," Lee Younghee, head of global marketing for mobile communications, said Friday in an interview. Lee, a senior vice president...
09:31 AM, Sep 24, 2011
New York: Oracle Corp on Thursday estimated it suffered roughly $1.16 billion of damages from Google Inc's alleged copyright and patent infringement of Java technology used in the Android operating system. In a court filing, Oracle said Google's claim that the damages sought exceeded $2.2 billion "mischaracterizes" a report by Oracle damages expert Iain Cockburn, a Boston University business professor. The lowered damages estimate is one-fifth the maximum $6.1 billion...
01:48 PM, Sep 23, 2011
