Back in November Apple and HTC announced a settlement to its ongoing patent disputes, working out a 10 year licensing agreement. Samsung's lawyers wanted to see the details of the settlement and Apple and HTC agreed to show a redacted version of leaving out pricing and royalty rates. Eventually U.S. court Judge Paul Grewal granted...
Last week Samsung asked U.S. court Judge Paul Grewal for access to the Apple-HTC settlement deal, specifically the patents included in the deal and the financial terms HTC is paying Apple in their 10 year deal. Earlier today we heard how Apple and HTC had agreed to show a redacted copy of the settlement to...
Apple and HTC have recently reached a global settlement that includes the dismissal of all current lawsuits and a ten-year license agreement, with HTC agreeing to pay a speculated licensing fees of $6-8 for each Android device it sells to Apple. Today, a report published by FOSS Patents is claiming that Apple and HTC have agreed to...
HTC's Chief Executive raised his voice to call earlier media reports about the Apple–HTC settlement outrageous, as they claim the Taiwanese company will be forced to pay up to $8 per Android device sold. (more…)
Reuters reports Samsung plans to ask a U.S. judge to coerce Apple into handing over a copy of their recently settled agreement with HTC, as noted in a court filing (via the Verge) today: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which could face such a sales ban following a crushing jury verdict against it in August, now plans to...
Although Apple's press release doesn't mention it, HTC will have to pay Apple licensing fees for each Android device it sells, which may shrink the Taiwanese manufacturer's profit margin. (more…)
Apple has just issued a press release to announced it has settled its patent dispute with HTC: HTC and Apple® have reached a global settlement that includes the dismissal of all current lawsuits and a ten-year license agreement. The license extends to current and future patents held by both parties. The terms of the settlement...
Bloomberg Businessweek covers a story in regards to Apple vs Samsung and predicts how it will play out over time: Eventually all the competitors will settle up (on confidential financial terms) and get back to ordinary competition. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates didn’t exactly become friends after their software litigation petered out in the 1980s;...
comScore, the global leader in measuring the digital world and preferred source of digital business analytics, has today released data from the comScore MobiLens service reporting overall U.S. mobile phone market share during the three month average period ending June 2012. The numbers reveal that Apple continues to gain share in the OEM market ranking third with 15.4% of mobile...
In a British high court today, Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC managed to defeat Apple in a series of legal challenges relating to patents, most notably the prized “Slide to Unlock”. Apple’s patent relating to the “Multi-touch” was also found to be partly invalid. HTC also successful challenged an Apple patent on the use of different...
Reeling from an 88% drop in its stock value last year, Kodak is looking to its expansive patent library as a source of recovery cash to mount a comeback. Today, the 131-year-old imaging company sued Apple and HTC over imaging patents while, yesterday, Apple’s stock hit an all-time high. FOSS Patents lays out the particular...
Bloomberg reports HTC has filed a fresh lawsuit against Apple, using patents it acquired last week from Google: HTC sued Apple today in federal court in Delaware, claiming infringement of four of those patents that originally were issued to Motorola. Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC also amended a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington,...
