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ShareIn a Friday statement, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) revealed that it intends investigating the complaint filed by HTC, in which the Taiwanese phone maker has accused Apple of infringing on five of its patents pertaining to handset technology. The ITC said that it will investigate whether HTC’s request, seeking a ban on the import and [...]
ShareMONTREAL – BlackBerry maker Research In Motion likely decided to settle a patent infringement case with a U.S. technology company to avoid losing any market share to competitors Apple and Google, say analysts.
Prism Technologies has reached a settlement and licensing agreement with RIM (TSX:RIM) involving authentication systems on BlackBerrys such as the Curve 8330. Terms [...]
ShareA company called NetAirus Technologies has sued Apple(AAPL), alleging that the iPhone infringes its 2006 patent, first filed in 1999, on “a wireless handset communication system,” the blog The Loop reports. the patent was issued to Richard J. Ditzik, of Bonita, California. a quick Google search finds Ditzik previously has filed other patent infringement suits, including cases against Panasonic andSamsung.
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ShareWiLAN today said that it has filed a patent infringement complaint with the U.S. District Court for the eastern district of Texas against a number of computer and handset manufacturers.
The company claims that all of the firms are infringing on U.S. Patent No. 5,515,369 which involves making or selling products with Bluetooth technology in them.
The [...]
ShareFormer processor startup MicroUnity Systems Engineering (Santa Clara, Calif.) filed suit Tuesday (March 16) alleging 22 of the world’s top cellphone companies including chip, system and service providers infringe 15 of its patents. The suit, one of the broadest in recent memory, in some cases seeks treble damages claiming willful [...]
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Microsoft isn’t the name that comes to mind when you think of the world’s most inventive tech company. But if you measure inventiveness by the quality and usefulness of patents, Microsoft tops the tech world, according to three different reports in the last few months.
The IEEE Spectrum Patent Scorecard rates Microsoft [...]
ShareFor Apple’s legal team, it seems three is the magic number. Not content with counter suing Nokia and being sued by Kodak, Apple have launched yet another law suit this time against Taiwanese smartphone manufacturers HTC. The reason? Patent infringement. Or so Apple has alleged.
Yes, following ongoing legal wranglings with Nokia and Kodak, the Cupertino [...]
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Apple’s iPad is barely a day old, and it’s already facing legal troubles. Not terribly surprising, as “iPad” is hardly original — and Apple has a history of stealing names that are registered trademarks of other companies.
Japanese electronics company Fujitsu built a handheld computing device in 2002 — complete with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, [...]
ShareThough the debut of Apple’s mythical tablet at the company’s invitation-only special event next week and the rapture with which it will inevitably be met obviate the need for a closing “one more thing” announcement, Apple (AAPL) may deliver one anyway. Three, actually.
iPhone OS 4.0. And the iPhone 4G–on Verizon (VZ).
That’s the word from Canaccord [...]
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Apple and Google joining hands?
The iPhone is about to see a shuffle of its applications: Apple and Microsoft are in talks (together!) to do away with Google as the default search engine on Apple’s smartphone and replace it with Bing.
BusinessWeek is reporting that this deal has been undergoing talks for weeks now amid a brewing [...]
ShareApple has filed an appeal against a ruling that it must pay US$21.7m in damages to IP licensing firm OPTi for patent infringement.
The appeal will be against three claims that Apple infringed patents owned by OPTi relating to “predictive snooping of cache memory” used in computer processors.
Although the judge in the case granted Apple’s motion [...]
ShareThe row between Apple and Nokia over mobile phone patents has escalated after Apple filed a countersuit alleging Nokia had infringed 13 of its patents.
The suit comes two months after Nokia filed its own suit, accusing Apple’s iPhone of infringing 10 of its wireless technology patents.
Apple’s suit denies infringement of Nokia’s patents and accuses the [...]