San Francisco: Apple Inc's chief patent counsel will soon leave the company, according to a source familiar with the situation. Richard "Chip" Lutton Junior. manages the iPad and iPod maker's patent portfolio. It is unclear why Lutton is leaving the company, but BJ Watrous, a former deputy general counsel with Hewlett Packard, is now listed as Apple's chief IP counsel on Watrous's LinkedIn web page. Lutton did not respond to...
12:38 PM, Jul 12, 2011
New York: At the auction for Nortel Networks' wireless patents this week, Google's bids were mystifying, such as $1,902,160,540 and $2,614,972,128. Math whizzes might recognize these numbers as Brun's constant and Meissel-Mertens constant, but it puzzled many of the people involved in the auction, according to three people with direct knowledge of the situation on Friday. "Google was bidding with numbers that were not even numbers," one of the sources...
09:23 AM, Jul 02, 2011
San Francisco: Apple asked a US court to issue a preliminary injunction against Samsung on four patents in a dispute between the two companies, according to a court filing. The iPhone and iPad maker also asked for a faster trial schedule to resolve all of its intellectual property claims against Samsung. The legal battle between the two tech giants has been building since April, when Apple sued Samsung in a...
09:20 AM, Jul 02, 2011
Seoul: Samsung asked the US International Trade Commission to ban the importation of Apple's iPhones, iPads and iPods, ratcheting up its dispute against Apple. The filing, dated Tuesday, says Apple's iPhone, iPod digital music player and iPad tablet infringe on five of Samsung's patents involving telecommunications standards and user interface inventions. Samsung also filed a new patent lawsuit against Apple in a Delaware federal court on Wednesday, The complaints are...
07:46 AM, Jun 30, 2011
San Francisco: Oracle is seeking between $1.4 billion and $6.1 billion in a patent lawsuit against Google over the lucrative smartphone market, according to a court filing. Oracle sued Google last year, claiming the Web search company's Android mobile operating technology infringes upon Oracle's Java patents. Oracle bought the Java programing language through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January 2010. A U.S. judge this week ordered Google to make...
12:45 PM, Jun 18, 2011
San Jose: Executives "at the highest levels" of Apple Corp and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are in talks about patent litigation between the two companies, a lawyer for Apple said in court. The disclosure came during a hearing on Friday in the battle over the highly lucrative smartphone and tablet markets, jump-started by Apple's iPhone and iPad. Apple sued Samsung in April, claiming Samsung's Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets...
09:28 AM, Jun 18, 2011
Helsinki: Ailing Nokia said on Tuesday it had ended a legal battle with Apple, which will pay an undisclosed one-off fee and ongoing royalties to the Finnish firm. "Apple and Nokia have agreed to drop all of our current lawsuits and enter into a license covering some of each others' patents, but not the majority of the innovations that make the iPhone unique," said an Apple spokesman. "We're glad to...
12:32 PM, Jun 14, 2011
Toronto: Google should not be allowed to buy thousands of patents belonging to bankrupt Nortel Networks under current sale terms, Microsoft said on Monday, the deadline for bids in an closely watched auction. Microsoft, which claims a "worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license to all of Nortel's patents" following a 2006 deal, said in a filing with a Delaware bankruptcy court that existing agreements should be transferred to any new owner of...
07:41 AM, Jun 14, 2011
Washington: Apple Inc won the first round in a patent fight with Elan Microelectronics Corp over touchpad technology, the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) said on Friday. Judge Paul Luckern said in his initial decision there was no violation of the Elan patent. The full International Trade Commission must now rule on whether to accept or reject the decision of its administrative law judge. That decision is expected in...
10:57 AM, Apr 30, 2011
Washington: Apple Inc won a round in its patent fight with Nokia on Friday as a US trade panel judge ruled that the US company did not violate any of five Nokia patents. In its complaint, Nokia asked the trade panel to bar the importation of Apple devices that infringe Nokia patents, citing in particular the iPhone 3GS mobile phone and iPod Nano portable music player. Judge James Gildea, of...
12:50 PM, Mar 26, 2011
San Francisco: For some, it's the red reindeer Christmas sweater. For others, it's the diamond-encrusted dreidel. Whatever your worst gift nightmare might be, Amazon may soon give you a reason to cheer. Amazon.com Inc., the source of many presents good, bad or ugly, has patented a system that would let people exchange unwanted gifts for those they actually want - even before they get them. For now, though, it's just...
12:43 PM, Dec 30, 2010
New York: Apple Inc sued rival Motorola Inc, claiming the Droid smartphone maker infringes on three iPhone patents. Cupertino, California-based Apple says Motorola is purposefully using its touchscreen software, as well as other display technologies. "Motorola's infringing activities have caused and will continue to cause Apple irreparable harm, for which it has no adequate remedy at law, unless Motorola's infringing activities are enjoined," Apple said in a nine-page filing on...
11:49 AM, Nov 01, 2010
San Francisco: Apple has been granted a patent that allows parents to prevent their children from sending and receiving sexually explicit text messages. The patent was granted Tuesday by the US Patent and Trademark Office and allows parents or other administrators of mobile phones to set definitions for banned texts. Messages containing the offending words could be censored or deleted before reaching the recipient. Parents could also opt to receive...
12:58 PM, Oct 14, 2010
Seattle: Microsoft Corp has licensed some technology relating to rival Palm Inc's smartphones, the latest move in a complex web of deals and litigation in the fast-growing phone sector. The world's largest software company, which launches its new range of smartphones next week, licensed the patents from ACCESS Co Ltd and a unit of Acacia Research Corp. Those companies said the portfolio of patents licensed covered inventions by Palm, Palmsource,...
11:53 AM, Oct 08, 2010
New York: Taiwan's Chimei Innolux Corp sued Japan's Sony Corp for infringing on patents used in PlayStation 3 video game consoles, televisions, computer notebooks and cameras. Sony engaged in "widespread infringement" of three patents dating back to 1998 Chimei said in its lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Delaware on Monday. Chimei said the infringement came after it had invested tens of millions of dollars in developing liquid...
10:52 AM, Aug 24, 2010
NTP Inc said it filed patent infringement lawsuits against several of the world's top mobile phone companies ...
05:52 PM, Jul 09, 2010
A US trade panel has agreed to investigate a complaint that Nokia, RIM, HTC and LG infringed patented technology. ...
02:50 PM, Jul 09, 2010
Chimei Innolux, Taiwan's largest LCD maker, said it has filed suits against Sony over alleged patent infringements. ...
06:25 PM, Jul 07, 2010
Nokia filed lawsuit against iPhone maker in October. ...
10:35 PM, Dec 11, 2009
Chittagong: Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan on Friday said the thrilling win over England has taught them the lesson that they need to inculcate the virtue of not throwing away the good starts. Bangladesh were placed comfortable at 155 for three while chasing 226 but both Imrul Kayes (60) and Shakib (32) let England comeback in the match by getting out due to poor shot selection and bad running between...
11:51 PM, Dec 30, 2007
