According to a report by FOSS Patents, Apple is claiming to have found an $85 million error in court's damages order regarding two Samsung phones. Apple's court filing alleges that Judge Lucy Koh made an error in vacating part of the $1.02 billion in damages awarded by the Apple v. Samsung trial jury. Apple is also claiming that...
A London court has invalidated Samsung's assertion that some Apple products infringe on its patents, granting the Cupertino giant yet another patent win against its arch rival, ZDNet reports. The Judge ruled that Apple's products do not infringe Samsung's patents around the ability to send and receive information from a device over a 3G network. Judge...
According to a report published by Bloomberg, Samsung has increased its U.S. lobbying expenses by a factor of six i.e $900,000 last year from $150,000 in 2011, in its efforts to influence the federal government on its ongoing patent infringement lawsuits with Apple. The report also points out that the South Korean electronics giant has recently hired Sony...
In an ongoing patent infringement case between Apple and Samsung in Korea’s Seoul Central District Court, Apple has denied Samsung's request to share the iOS 6 source code, reports The Korea Times (via TechCrunch). According to the publication, Samsung believes that without looking into iOS 6, it can't judge whether Apple’s software infringes its technology patents. Samsung...
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has today announced that it has accepted Samsung's request to review the preliminary ruling made by Judge Thomas Pender last year that Samsung infringed on four Apple patents, reports the Korea Times. Judge Pender had recommended the ITC to order a ban on the U.S. imports of Samsung devices found to infringe...
Back in October, Samsung filed a new request for a re-trial demanding that $1.05 billion verdict awarded in favor of Apple should be overturned because the jury foreman failed to disclose that 20 years ago he was in litigation with Seagate, a Samsung partner. Samsung further suggested that Apple was aware of this issue right from the start,...
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...
According to a report from Korean news organization The Chosun Ilbo (via BGR), Samsung executives are set to meet on December 17th and 18th this year, in order to discuss the company’s strategy in ongoing patents war with Apple. The report claims that approximately 200 company executives will come together to discuss Samsung’s policies and the landscape in 2013....
Earlier this month, the UK Court of Appeal in London ordered Apple to remove the misleading statement citing a judge comparing the designs of the Apple and Samsung products and replace it with a new notice. Apple showed compliance by publishing a revised notice, acknowledging that Samsung did not infringe Apple’s patents and therefore did not breach U.K....
Back in October, Samsung filed a request for a re-trial demanding that $1.05 billion verdict awarded in favor of Apple should be overturned because the jury foreman Velvin Hogan failed to disclose that 20 years ago he was in litigation with Seagate, for whom Samsung is a major investor, during the jury selection. CNET now reports that Federal District...
Back in July, a UK judge ruled in favor of Samsung stating that its Galaxy tablets aren’t “cool” enough to be confused with Apple’s iPad and therefore the design for Samsung’s three Galaxy tablets don't infringe Apple’s registered design. As a result, the court instructed Apple to run ads acknowledging Samsung did not infringe iPad design on its website and newspapers...
On October 3rd, Samsung filed a request with the court for a re-trial demanding that $1.05 billion verdict awarded in favor of Apple should be overturned because of jury foreman's misconduct. Today, Apple has filed its response with the court saying that Samsung had its chance to investigate Velvin Hogan during jury selection but now, it's too late for the Korean company...
