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Apple sued over voicemail patents

Adding to its large array of ongoing lawsuits, Apple has been sued by patent holding company Brandywine Communications Technologies over two voicemail patents. The lawsuit was filed in a local Florida court on Tuesday, reports GigaOm.The patents in questions areNo.6,236,717andNo.5,719,922, which ...

Apple patents new method for water detection

Apple has submitted a patent that describes a better method of detecting water in an electronic device. In other words, Apple has devised a way to know if your iPhone has been in a pool (for example) before you try to return it to an Apple Store as defective. The patent describes a method of c...

Apple wins injunction against Motorola in Germany over 'slide to unlock' patent

When the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) awarded Apple a patent late last year regarding its ‘slide to unlock’ feature, we didn’t think it would be very long before we saw it pop up in Apple’s Android war. And it wasn’t.Hot on the heels of Motorola ...

Apple granted 19 new patents covering switches, Airplane Mode and more

Apple is known for throwing as many patents onto the wall as possible with the aim of getting at least a few to stick. That has never been more true than since the arrival of the iOS platform with iPads and iPhones seeing more than their fair share of patent applications.Now the US Patent and Tra...

Motorola Wants 2.25% of Apple's Sales in Exchange for Patent License

The legal battle going on between Apple and Motorola in Germany’s Mannheim court is starting to get pretty intense. Just yesterday, Apple was forced to pull some of its 3G products from its German online store as the result of a temporary injunction.Although Apple quickly won a suspension o...

Motorola Wants 2.25% of Apple's Sales in Exchange for Patent License

The legal battle going on between Apple and Motorola in Germany’s Mannheim court is starting to get pretty intense. Just yesterday, Apple was forced to pull some of its 3G products from its German online store as the result of a temporary injunction.Although Apple quickly won a suspension o...

Judge Interprets Key Realtime API Patent in Apple's Favor

Apple has spent an estimated $100 million dollars on its so-called “war on Android.” And so far it doesn’t have much to show for it. Even its recent ITC court victory over HTC doesn’t look like it will have much of an impact on anything.But that could all change thanks to ...

Judge Interprets Key Realtime API Patent in Apple's Favor

Apple has spent an estimated $100 million dollars on its so-called “war on Android.” And so far it doesn’t have much to show for it. Even its recent ITC court victory over HTC doesn’t look like it will have much of an impact on anything.But that could all change thanks to ...

Patent Shows Apple Working On Universal Touchscreen TV Remote

As noted by 9to5Mac, the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) published an interesting patent application today with Apple’s name on it.The filing pertains to a universal touch screen controller, capable of controlling TV sets and a range of other devices, lending at leastsome credibili...

Apple Goes After Galaxy Nexus With Slide to Unlock Patent

A few months ago, Samsung’s mobile president Shin Jong-kyun told reporters that Apple would have a hard time finding any of their intellectual property in his company’s new Galaxy Nexus handset.He obviously underestimated Apple’s legal team.Reports are coming in that Apple has j...