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.
Samsung initiates arbitration proceeding in Hong Kong against Microsoft
over smartphone patent royalties, Reuters
A U.S. judge yesterday threw aside a much - anticipated trial between Apple (s aapl) and Google - owned Motorola Mobility (s goog)
over smartphone patents.
Not exact matches
Her monogrammed,
patent - leather briefcase — designer, of course — contains just the basic tools of the trade:
smartphone, tablet and chic little clutch in case today's meeting spills
over into cocktail hour.
Qualcomm, which is battling Apple
over chip royalties, argues the iPhone maker is violating
patents in its
smartphones.
Motorola Mobility is being sued by a Google - funded company
over a
patent infringement allegation into Android
smartphones.
As you probably know by now, Apple gave Samsung a historic courtroom beat down
over a host of
patents used in
smartphones and tablets.
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.
Even as they declared Posner to be wrong seven ways from Sunday, they failed to acknowledge Posner's
over-arching point when he threw out the original case in 2012: that lawsuits
over silly
smartphone patents are inefficient and «contrary to the public interest.»
The Rockstar lawsuits threatened to further inflame a global
patent battle
over smartphones, and led Google to file a lawsuit of its own last Christmas in an attempt to shield phone makers.
According to a person familiar with the company, Google's
patent partnership with Samsung is part of a larger plan to defuse the
patent wars
over smartphones, and promote industry - wide cross-licensing deals instead.
In this edition, we find Microsoft suing former partner Motorola
over, what else,
patent infringement in the area of
smartphones.
Folding
smartphones have been cropping up in
patents and in the news across the web
over the past several months but the cautious approach of some manufacturers may indicate that the technology itself is not quite ready for primetime yet.
The two companies are mired in legal disputes
over patents on many internal components going into
smartphones.
In a press release earlier this year, Nokia noted that it has invested
over $ 120 billion in research and development
over the last two decades, and owns tens of thousands of
patents that cover technology found in
smartphones, tablets, computers, and other electronics.
It's like the
Smartphone Patent Wars all
over again.
Credit: Tom's GuideThe folks
over at Let's Go Digital discovered a
patent Samsung filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) that shows a
smartphone with no notch and no bezels.