Sentences with phrase «apple over patent»

Samsung is mired in global legal battles with Apple over patent infringement claims, HP discontinued production of its TouchPad after just seven weeks and RIM shipped only 200,000 PlayBooks last quarter, when Apple sold 9.25 million iPads.

Another interesting «troll» stat, one not revealed in Apple's filings: Samsung, a company that has been sued by arch-rival Apple over patents, is the trolls» fifth most popular target.

Not exact matches

And because it's so different, it's a near certainty that Microsoft will manage to avoid the ridiculous patent wars going on between Apple and Android manufacturers over who ripped whom off.

Qualcomm, which is battling Apple over chip royalties, argues the iPhone maker is violating patents in its smartphones.

Reuters had a good story over the weekend that summed up what's going on, with a specific look at how Apple is fighting a particularly effective patent war against Google.

If mediation fails, the technology rivals will face each other in court over Apple's accusations that Samsung committed patent infringement.

The latest trial between Apple and VirnetX, which has been taking place over the last week, is a do - over of an earlier 2012 patent clash between the two parties.

Qualcomm filed a breach of contract lawsuit late Tuesday against four Taiwanese contract manufacturers that build iPhones and iPads for Apple — the latest salvo in an escalating war between two tech giants over patent royalties.

Apple, which sued Qualcomm in January over patent royalties, is a sponsor of The App Association.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Apple also have sued Qualcomm over patent licenses.

This latest legal maneuver marks another step in the increasingly fierce legal war being waged by Apple and Qualcomm over patent licensing.

In June, 2013, South Korea's Samsung scored a major victory over Apple in a U.S. International Trade Commission decision to ban the import of Apple products because of infringement of Samsung patents.

Qualcomm has announced three concessions that it hopes will help resolve its long - running legal battle with Apple over the fees it charges for use of its wireless chips and patented technology.

It is no secret that Qualcomm's lucrative patent licensing business has been a lightning rod for legal attacks by Apple and antitrust regulators over the past year.

Apple filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm over its patent licensing agreements.

«Despite being just one of over a dozen companies who contributed to basic cellular standards, Qualcomm insists on charging Apple at least five times more in payments than all the other cellular patent licensors we have agreements with combined,» Apple said in a statement.

It certainly stands in stark contrast to the approach of tech companies like Apple, which are suing their rivals all over the world for infringing on patents like the one it holds for rounded corners.

The Honeycrisp apple generated around $ 14 million for the University of Minnesota before its patent expired, and new strawberry varieties developed at the University of California (UC), Davis, have generated $ 37 million over the past 5 years.

Apple may have won quite a few back to back court battles over patent infringement cases, but has had a «minor» setback in China.

The historic Apple vs Samsung patent dispute has resulted in an over 1 billion dollar penalty for Samsung in the first round.

Recently Apple has filled a large lawsuit against HTC for over 20 patent infringements.

Also, given Samsung's recent spate of court battles with Apple over cases of infringement of the iPad's design patents, the Samsung design team will work doubly hard to ensure their next tablet is discussed more in tech circles and markets than various courts the world over.

Especially since Apple has been having legal problems over patent rights with Samsung in some key world markets.

Interestingly, the timing of the new deal couldn't have come at a better time, what with a lot of companies now engaged in patent wars the world over, and Apple itself featuring in a few of those.

For a re-cap, a court in the US had ordered Samsung to pay over $ 1 billion in the patent dispute case after the jury was convinced by Apple's claims of Samsung having copied the look and feel of popular Apple products, which includes the iPhone and iPad.

Getting back to Apple and Motorola, those two companies are suing each other over more than 40 U.S. patents.

Used ebooks are a hot topic right now, with Apple and Amazon each pursuing a patent over reselling digital content and as a result sparking a debate on the legality, ethics, and morality of a second - hand marketplace for products that don't decay.

US District Judge Lucy Koh has banned sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the US while the court decides on the firm's patent infringement dispute with Apple over the iPad tablet.

Samsung had a bit of a rough month in August after going up against Apple in court over alleged patent infringement.

Apple is currently battling with Samsung over patent infringement, which means that the Tab might not be available in your country.

Apple has lost two patent lawsuits against Samsung and Motorola over touchscreen technology, ending the iPhone maker's victorious summer of litigation.

After taking Samsung to court in nearly every country over patent disputes; the U.S. courts ruled earlier this week in favor of Apple.

Even with Microsoft applying a licensing tax through its patent portfolio and threats of legal action and Apple weighing in to sue over patent infringements, manufacturers that adopted Android have done well out of it.

After several hours, the court agreed with Apple that the photo gallery patent — except for its claim 1 — was novel and inventive over «Lira» and «LaunchTile».

The court also rejected various amended claims proposed by Apple, which were an attempt to distinguish the patent from what was shown in the video, because it found them to be, at best, obvious over the Steve Jobs video, which Google's lawyers from the Quinn Emanuel firm submitted to the court in April 2013.

In other words, even an amended version of the patent would be trivial, but not over what others created before — only over Apple's own public demo.

As you probably know by now, Apple gave Samsung a historic courtroom beat down over a host of patents used in smartphones and tablets.

This ruling is not thermonuclear on its own, but in its aftermath, we will not only see a lot of wrangling over a judgment as a matter of law to overrule the jury and over injunctive relief but there will also be, even more importantly, a push by Apple to enforce many more design patents and utility (hardware and software) patents against Samsung.

As we learned recently in following the high - profile litigation between Apple and Samsung over their smartphone patents, patent litigation can affect the very future of a company and can involve billions of dollars.

It asked the court to tell the jury about that interpretation of the patent (which will now finally happen, tomorrow, as a result of the Federal Circuit decision), and it wanted to point to Apple's own 60 - cent - per - device damages claim over this patent in the Motorola case.

Formally, only the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 are affected, but in practical terms, Apple now knows that (unless the appeals court reverses this ruling) Samsung may be able to quickly seek injunctions against newer Apple products over standard - essential patents.

Apple's winning streak continues for now: after (finally) obtaining a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and winning by a wide margin a battle over a long list of expert reports, Apple has just been cleared of infringement of one of the three Samsung patents it was attacking in its very focused summary judgment motions.

A week ago I reported that a decision on Apple's post-appeal motion for a U.S. ban of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 over an iPad design patent was approaching after the Federal Circuit denied a Samsung request for a rehearing.

«Reining in Remedies in Patent Litigation: Three (Increasingly Immodest) Proposals» proposes that injunctions be unavailable over FRAND - pledged SEPs, advocates apportionment of the disgorgement of an infringer's profits that a design patent holder can seek (this approach would have taken care of a substantial part of the damages issue in Apple v. Samsung, for example), and finally — which is the most ambitious part but makes a lot of sense to me — elaborates in the form of a «thought experiment» on an idea Judge Posner tossed out a few month ago: for a «wide swath of U.S. patent cases» it might be preferable to avoid jPatent Litigation: Three (Increasingly Immodest) Proposals» proposes that injunctions be unavailable over FRAND - pledged SEPs, advocates apportionment of the disgorgement of an infringer's profits that a design patent holder can seek (this approach would have taken care of a substantial part of the damages issue in Apple v. Samsung, for example), and finally — which is the most ambitious part but makes a lot of sense to me — elaborates in the form of a «thought experiment» on an idea Judge Posner tossed out a few month ago: for a «wide swath of U.S. patent cases» it might be preferable to avoid jpatent holder can seek (this approach would have taken care of a substantial part of the damages issue in Apple v. Samsung, for example), and finally — which is the most ambitious part but makes a lot of sense to me — elaborates in the form of a «thought experiment» on an idea Judge Posner tossed out a few month ago: for a «wide swath of U.S. patent cases» it might be preferable to avoid jpatent cases» it might be preferable to avoid juries.

Creative Technology, based in Singapore, on Monday filed suit against Apple Computer over patent claims.

This was the sole remaining patent in the ITC case, and a U. S. import ban could have given Google some leverage over Apple.

The largest patent award in 2013 was for $ 290 million, for Apple Inc. against Samsung Electronics Co. over smartphone technology that came in the retrial of a portion of one of the 2012 verdicts.

I recently obtained a copy of the preliminary ruling on the photo gallery patent, and in a parallel matter the court allowed me, over Samsung's objections, to read Apple's sur - reply (from the infringement proceedings) in the infringement case over Samsung's smiley input method patent.

That fact only adds to the credibility of that industry group because it shows that some of its members, such as Apple, are more interested in obtaining sales bans over patents than others, such as Google and Samsung, yet they all agree that the current proposal would make Europe a patent trolls» paradise and hurt all innovative operating companies.

But on Wednesday, Administrative Law Judge Thomas B. Pender issued a preliminary ruling in Apple's favor against Samsung over four patents: one design patent, one hardware patent, and two multitouch software patents.