Tag: patents
Google and Samsung agree on extensive patent licensing
Samsung and Google have just struck up an agreement to access each other's patents portfolio for quite a long period of time. Aside from...
Motorola trial versus Intellectual Ventures starts today
Motorola has begun their trial against alleged patent troll Intellectual Ventures this morning. Opening statements were heard in a Delaware courtroom, where a case...
Qualcomm snatches 1,400 patents from HP relating to Palm, iPaq, and Bitphone
Qualcomm has announced that they’ve acquired about 1,400 patents from HP. The portfolio, which also encompasses patent applications, notably references Palm, iPaq, and Bitphone....
Android push notifications found to infringe on SimpleAir patent
After just a week, a federal jury from the Eastern District of Texas returned a guilty verdict against Google. It has determined that it...
Samsung awarded two new patents, could bring folding tablet to market
Two new design patents could highlight the direction for future Samsung devices. While they’re very different from one another, they could highlight new directions...
Apple still wants 20 old Samsung devices banned in the US
Though mobile device rivals Samsung and Apple are said to be trying to amicably resolve some issues between them, Apple is far from done...
Google not as innocent as we might think when it comes to Rockstar lawsuit,...
If you think Google is the ‘good guy’ in their new lawsuit with the Rockstar consortium, Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents would like you...
Google bites back, practically calls Rockstar a patent troll
Just in time to become a rather strange Christmas present, Google has filed a lawsuit against Rockstar, a company that has sued Google and...
Rockstar looking to sell patents, but not those wrapped up in their lawsuit against...
Remember Rockstar? The firm that sued Google recently? They’re owned by a conglomerate of tech companies, most notably Apple, Blackberry and Microsoft. They snapped...
HTC loses patents squabble to Nokia in German court
Taking a break from the usual Samsung versus Apple news you hear regularly, we turn our attention to yet another duo dishing it out...
Samsung loses to Apple in legal battle in own home turf
If you're not tired of it all yet, here's another segment of the legal tug of war between frenemies Samsung and Apple. The news...
House passes Innovation Act bill aimed at stopping patent trolls
A bill has passed the House of Representatives today making it much more difficult for patent trolls to get away with filing frivolous suits....