08/15/2011
AppleInsider
Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility will not affect Motorola’s patent-related lawsuits against Apple, as the search company revealed on Monday it has no plans to rescind those legal complaints.
Motorola will continue to operate as a separate entity under Google, building handsets running Android as it has done before. And the company will also continue [...]
08/11/2011
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s increasingly effective patent war against rivals like Samsung Electronics may mask its real target: arch-foe Google Inc.
The maker of the iPad and iPhone has sued three of the largest manufacturers of Google’s Android-based devices — Samsung, Motorola and HTC — for multiple patent infringements across multiple countries, pointing [...]
08/10/2011
Dow Jones Newswires – San Francisco Bureau
SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Inc. said a German court has ruled that a tablet computer made by Samsung Electronics Co. cannot be sold in most of the European Union, the latest turn in a patent fight between the two companies.
The preliminary injunction bars Samsung from distributing its Galaxy Tab 10.1 [...]
08/10/2011
EE Times – Online
SAN FRANCISCO—Subsidiaries of ARM Holdings plc has asked a U.S. federal court to intervene in a litigation filed in April by Canadian memory IP vendor Mosaid Technologies Inc. against several ARM licensees, Mosaid said Tuesday (Aug. 9).
ARM filed a complaint against Mosaid on Aug. 5 in U.S. District Court for Northern [...]
08/10/2011
CNET News.com
With a lull in the battle of words between Google and Microsoft over patents held by tech giants, Apple today has been granted 20 new ones, including patents that cover integrated touch screens and parts of the visual voice mail tool found on the iPhone.
The full list, dug up today by Apple patent [...]
08/09/2011
CNET News.com
The U.S. International Trade Commission, which has the power to block imports, will review Apple’s claim that Taiwanese company violated five of its patents, including one used for scrolling operations, another for programmable tactile touch-screen displays, and one for a double-sided touch-sensitive panel.
The decision to review the complaint, which was announced on the [...]
08/08/2011
PC Magazine
Smartphones, the hottest and highest-growth segment in consumer electronics, have become the latest playground in the patent arms race. While you’re at a store innocently trying to decide between a Samsung Galaxy S and an iPhone 4, there’s a war taking place among the makers of those fantastic little computers that fit into the [...]
07/29/2011
Bloomberg News – San Francisco Bureau
Google Inc. (GOOG), facing a growing threat of intellectual-property lawsuits, acquired a batch of patents this month from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) to bolster its portfolio.
“Like many tech companies, at times we’ll acquire patents that are relevant to our business,” the Mountain View, California-based company said yesterday in [...]
03/24/2011
Investor’s Business Daily
Build a better mousetrap is the mantra of U.S. companies, colleges and legions of solo inventors. Now, the patent system underpinning that innovation engine is on track to get its first major overhaul in more than 50 years.
The Senate on March 8 passed the America Invents Act 95-5, after three similar attempts [...]
02/03/2011
CNET News.com
As the holder of more than 25,000 patents and pending patent applications in the United States, Microsoft knows a thing or two about getting them. And a long history of litigation is further proof of its intent on defending such intellectual property.
But in a post yesterday by Senior VP and General Counsel Brad [...]
