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Apple just got the most expensive court room win ever: Pyrrhic victory

This case should never have reached a jury court, but the verdict is in. One billion dollar in damages although the jury was just sent back to recalculate it as judge Koh noticed some errors. By all means this is … Continue reading

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Motorola Google strikes back: demands import ban for Apple

The interesting thing is not that Motorola asserts more patents against Apple, but the timing and the nature of the demand. The request for a ban on all iPhones, iPads and Macs is made at the ITC for violations on … Continue reading

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Wireless push email inventor strikes patent deal with all big players

Samsung, Apple, Motorola, HTC but also Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and the big American carriers will start paying for a license to use wireless email patents by patent troll NTP. The original inventor Tom Campana died well before the first deal … Continue reading

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Galaxy SIII crippled in the US to avoid clash with Apple patent

The universal search, the possibility to search on Google and your own phone in one go, has been removed last night from American SIII´s. An early move by Samsung to avoid a sales ban request by Apple which claims to … Continue reading

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Oh no, after patenting the rectangle Apple now got the wedge shape!

No kidding. The US patent office has given them ´CLAIM The ornamental design for an electronic device, as shown and described´ see pic below. So every ultrabook manufacturer now needs to tread carefully because Apple didn´t specify anything more than … Continue reading

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Apple Loses “Slide-to-Unlock” Patent in Britain: Now What?

Apple lost its court case claiming a patent on the unlocking method. The judges accepted that an old 2005 Neonode phone, a Swedish ‘smartphone’ with a sort of touch interface used the swipe to unlock the phone feature identical to … Continue reading

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Apple found guilty of violating Samsung 3G patents!

An almost forgotten court case in the Netherlands finally got a verdict after Apple appealed against a fast procedure last October. What was at stake was Samsung´s counterclaim that Apple violated the 3G/UMTS patents. In October the judge tried to … Continue reading

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Apple willing to end patent war and offer licenses? A reality check!

The linked article claims Apple is willing to settle in exchange for license income on some of its patents. For those of you not familiar with the patent war: that´s unheard of until now. Steve Job´s Apple has always refused … Continue reading

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Patent troll has to stop harassing large phone retailers in Germany

A German court has told off IPCom and ordered them to stop harassing Media Markt and Saturn. After winning a court case regarding a violation by HTC of UMTS patents, IPcom wanted the shops to stop selling HTC phones with … Continue reading

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Why did Apple make a deal with a patent troll?

Really, they did and in this post I try to answer why The attached article explains that Apple has transferred some patents to this company which now uses them to sue Sony, Nokia Samsung, Amazon, Rim, HTC and others over … Continue reading

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