Patent Infringement

Resuming their long standing patent infringement dispute that dates all the way back to 2011, Apple and Samsung have once again returned to a San Jose district courtroom today, in order to determine the financial damages Samsung owes Apple for infringing on design patents covering the original iPhone, USA Today is reporting. While Apple has been seeking the full profits attributable...

Samsung has just received the support of a group of Silicon Valley companies: Facebook, Google, Dell, HP, eBay, and others have submitted a "friend of the court" petition warning the US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals over the dangers of upholding the previous ruling that ordered Samsung to turn over profits because it had been...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., has partly reversed the $930 million ruling Apple won against Samsung in the patent infringement lawsuit closely watched by the tech world, reports Reuters. You may recall that Apple scored a major victory against Samsung in a San Jose court when a number of...

Following lawsuits filed in the US, Ericsson has announced that it will move the patent dispute with Apple to Europe, as well: It has filed suits in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. The move comes after two years of failed negotiations: Ericsson has been trying to reach an agreement with Apple on a...

According to a court filing made public this week, Google has agreed to settle litigation with Rockstar, a patent consortium which counts Apple as an investor. Reuters is reporting that even though terms of the deal have not been disclosed, both parties have "agreed to settle all matters in controversy”, according to a recent filing in a Texas federal court....

At the start of a federal trial yesterday, a lawyer for Israel based Emblaze Ltd. told the jury that Apple pushed organizations such as Major League Baseball to adopt its format for streaming live video, causing them to infringe a video patent, Bloomberg reports. The company is arguing that Apple infringed its U.S. patent that covers a process for...

In an interesting article at Fortune, Philip Elmer-DeWitt has highlighted how 2013 was a record year for patent trolls, especially for Apple. Not only was Apple the No. 1 target of patent lawsuits during the year, it was also the top defendant in most new cases filed against technology companies. Here are some of the most interesting facts...

A German court has dismissed a $2 billion damage claim filed against Apple by IPCom, a patent licencing company based in the Munich area, reports Florian Müller of Foss Patents. The decision comes from two different panels of judges of the Mannheim Regional Court. Two lawsuits against Apple, including one involving a €1.57 billion ($2.2...

Samsung is not infringing Korea's fair competition rules, the country's Fair Trade Commission has found, after analyzing the patent disputes between the South Korean tech giant and Apple, reports the Korea Times. Also, Apple may be liable for a violation of Samsung's wireless patents, as Samsung is not violating the fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND)...

We pointed out last year, based on available data, that Apple is the No.1 target of patent trolls. In a recent filing, the iPhone maker itself pointed to the long list of patent litigations that has kept the company's lawyers busy during the past three years. "No firm has been targeted by PAEs more than...

Before they sit down to hold court-mediated meetings, Apple and Samsung are preparing for a second round of major patent litigation, which will kick off on March 31. They have filed the final list of patents and products they are accusing each other of infringing, Foss Patents reports. Last year both parties were forced to...

A new patent infringement lawsuit concerning Apple's latest A7 processor and the products that it powers, has been filed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), alleging that Apple has incorporated the technology of WARF's '752 patent into its newest processor to achieve enhanced efficiency and performance, PatentlyApple reports. The A7 processor currently powers the iPhone 5S, the...