The smartphone patent wars have so far managed to steer clear of Indian courts, but acting on a suit filed by Swedish telecom giant Ericsson, the Delhi High Court has told Micromax to pay royalties on every device it sells as part of an interim arrangement. ...
12:52 PM, Mar 26, 2013
Ericsson, the world's biggest telecom network equipment maker, said it was suing Samsung Electronics Co for patent infringement after two years of talks failed to yield a license agreement. ...
12:06 PM, Nov 28, 2012
New Delhi: Over the last few months, Apple and Samsung have been seen including new products in their legal battles. Samsung, which of late succeeded in including the iPhone 5 to its patent battle, has now accused Apple's iPad Mini, the 4th generation iPad and the latest iPod Touch of infringing its patents. "In a court filing today, the company (Samsung) asked to include Apple's 7.9-inch tablet along with the...
11:58 AM, Nov 22, 2012
New York: Apple Inc, Sony Corp and four other companies were sued by Graphics Properties Holdings Inc, formerly known as Silicon Graphics Inc, for allegedly infringing a patent through their sale of mobile phones and other electronic devices. The lawsuits against Apple, Japan-based Sony, Taiwan-based HTC Corp, South Korea-based LG Electronics Inc and Samsung Electronics Co were filed in the US District Court in Wilmington, Delaware. The patent at issue...
11:12 AM, Mar 28, 2012
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
Wilmington: Rovi Corp sued Hulu, accusing the online video site of infringing patents that cover electronic program guides. Rovi, created from Macrovision Corp's acquisition of Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc in 2008, provides technology that powers the streaming services provided by Blockbuster On Demand and Best Buy Co Inc's CinemaNow, according to the complaint, filed on Friday . Rovi licenses its technology to Apple Corp, Microsoft Corp and Comcast Corp, among...
01:18 PM, Jul 30, 2011
Washington: Apple Inc won a preliminary ruling from a US trade panel that Taiwanese handset maker HTC Corp infringed on two of the California company's patents. HTC, which uses Google's Android operating system for its smartphones, said it would "vigorously fight" the infringement finding. An International Trade Commission judge on Friday made the ruling, but the full commission must now rule on whether it will uphold or reverse its administrative...
12:20 PM, Jul 16, 2011
Wilmington: Google Inc and Microsoft Corp were sued for infringing a Louisiana company's patent with their map websites, which let users navigate street-level views of towns and cities. Transcenic Inc asked a Delaware District court to prevent Google and Microsoft from continuing to infringe its patent and asked the court to award it damages. Lake Charles, Louisiana-based Transcenic said in court documents that Google's Streetview and Google Earth and Microsoft's...
07:32 AM, Jul 06, 2011
Washington: Microsoft Corp suffered a defeat on Thursday when the Supreme Court upheld a record $290 million jury verdict against the software giant for infringing a small Canadian company's patent. The justices unanimously agreed with a US appeals court ruling that went against the world's largest software company in its legal battle with Toronto-based i4i. The high court refused to adopt Microsoft's lower standard to replace the long-standing requirement that...
08:48 AM, Jun 10, 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: A US trade panel has agreed to review Eastman Kodak Co's claim that Research in Motion Ltd and Apple Inc are infringing on its patents in a case that could mean hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties. The shares of Kodak - a company once synonymous with home photography, but now struggling in a world of digital cameras and smartphones -- spiked about 20 per cent in...
12:31 PM, Mar 26, 2011
Seattle: Microsoft Corp filed lawsuits for patent infringement on Monday against bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc over its Nook electronic book reader, widening the software company's legal assault on devices running on Google Inc's Android system. Microsoft, which has already sued Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc over its Android phone handsets, said Barnes & Noble's e-readers infringe several Microsoft patents with software used to tab between screens, surf the Web and...
11:13 AM, Mar 22, 2011
Seattle: Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen relaunched a wide-ranging patent lawsuit against Apple Inc, Google Inc, Facebook and others with specific allegations that the companies are illegally using technology owned by his company. Interval Licensing LLC, a small research company set up by Allen in 1992, originally filed a broad patent suit in federal court in Seattle in August, but Judge Marsha Pechman dismissed it on the grounds that it...
12:25 PM, Dec 30, 2010
New York: Sony Corp has filed a patent infringement complaint seeking to block LG Electronics Inc from shipping smartphones such as its Rumour 2 model to the United States. In a filing late Wednesday with the US International Trade Commission, Sony said LG violated US trade rules by importing mobile phones and modems that infringed Sony patents. Sony said LG also infringed patents of some of its licensees, including its...
12:21 PM, Dec 30, 2010
Toronto: After software giant Microsoft which is embroiled in a legal battle over Word patent, now BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) too is entangled in a patent battle. The Canadian wireless giant has dragged a fast-growing app developer called Kik Interactive Ltd to court for infringing on its wildly popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) which has more 30 million users. Interestingly, both RIM and Kirk Interactive Ltd. are based at...
11:40 AM, Dec 02, 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
Seattle: Microsoft Corp sued Motorola Inc, alleging patent infringement on the handset maker's line of Android phones, in the latest development in a web of legal actions in the evolving smartphone business. Microsoft, the world's largest software company, charged that former ally Motorola infringed nine of its patents in the Android-based smartphones, which run on software built by Google Inc. Microsoft makes its own Windows phone software, which it charges...
01:55 PM, Oct 02, 2010
Helsinki; Apple has sued Nokia in Britain, extending the two technology giants' legal battle over patents beyond US borders. "We are investigating the claims, which appear to be based on nine implementation patents already in suit between the two companies in the United States," said Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant. The two firms have been locked in a legal tussle since last October, when Nokia sued Apple in the United States,...
01:27 PM, Sep 29, 2010
San Francisco: A company linked to Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen is suing 11 major corporations, including Apple, Google and Facebook, accusing them of infringing on technology patents. Interval Licensing is asserting four patents against a cluster of defendants, including also AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo and Google's YouTube, according to the suit. Google, Facebook and eBay said they will fight the accusations by Interval, which...
12:20 PM, Aug 28, 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
