22/01/2012 |
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 just filed another lawsuit in Germany against Samsung for the use of - get this - its patented ‘Slide to Unlock’ feature…(...)Read the rest of Apple Goes After Galaxy Nexus With Slide...
Apple has negotiated an agreement with Samsung that will prevent the South Korean company from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet device in Australia (via Bloomberg BusinessWeek), at least until legal proceedings between the two in that country are resolved. The block is not a result of a court-o...
On April 16th, Apple filed a trademark infringement suit against Samsung with the U.S. District Court in North California. If you thought Samsung was just going to stand around, you thought wrong.Apple originally filed a lawsuit againstSamsung because it claimed Samsung’sGalaxy S Android sm...
It looks like Apple is starting to grow weary of patent litigation. Hot on the heels of word that the company won a major victory in a Chicago courttoday, reports are coming in now that the iPhone makers are looking to settle some of its lawsuits involving Android partners.According toDow Jones N...
Apple and Samsung are closer than ever to a possible settlement in their long-running legal showdown over smartphone and tablet technologies. Both companies agreed in a court hearing on Monday to send their respective chief executives and general counsel to meet face-to-face in San Francisco with...
It’s been nearly a year now since Apple filed its original patent infringement suit against Samsung, and the battle is still far from over. In fact, Apple has just filed a new set of lawsuits against the Korean manufacturer.Bloomberg is reporting that Apple has just filed two new design-rel...
Popular tech patent-analyst Florian Mueller is reporting that Apple has just scored a major legal win in Australia. The Cupertino company has been battling Samsung all over the globe, and it just scored a major break down in Sydney.On Mueller’s blog, FOSSPatents, he discusses the importance...
Apple received its first big win earlier this week in its ongoing patent war with Android manufacturers. The International Trade Commission ruled in favor of the iPhone-makers in its patent infringement lawsuit against HTC.The ITC’s decision was expected to have major ramifications for the ...
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 ...
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 ...