Yahoo/Facebook War Looming Over Patents
Yahoo has demanded licensing fees from Facebook for use of its technology, the companies said on Monday, potentially igniting the social media world in the patent battles and lawsuits that are already...
View ArticleMore Unrest At RIM As Two More Executives Leave
Blackberry maker Research In Motion Ltd is saying good-bye to two more senior executives as the money-losing mobile firm embarks on a strategic quest that its new chief executive says could result in...
View ArticleSome HTC Mobile Phones Finally Clearing U.S. Customs
Taiwanese smartphone maker High Tech Computer said on Sunday certain models of its newest smartphones have cleared U.S. Customs and are being released to its carrier customers, after the firm...
View ArticleAnother Apple Lawsuit,This Time Noise Reduction Technology
A small Silicon Valley technology firm is suing Apple, alleging the computer maker infringed its patent covering noise-reduction technology for mobile phones. Noise Free Wireless said it presented its...
View ArticleApple To Demand Billions From Samsung In Patent Lawsuit
Apple will ask for billions of dollars in damages from Samsung when a high-profile patent lawsuit between the companies is turned over to a California jury next week. Details of Apple’s claim were...
View ArticleSamsung Beats Nokia In Announcing New Windows OS Phone
Samsung Electronics on Wednesday became the first mobile phone maker to announce a smartphone using Microsoft’s latest mobile software, making its surprise, hurried announcement just days before the...
View ArticleOracle And Google Headed Back To Court
Google and Oracle have both said they will appeal Android related Java copyright and patent infringement rulings and verdicts issued in May.
View ArticleNokia To Seek Ban On Sales Of Some RIM Products
Nokia has requested that a California court enforce an arbitration award that would block Research In Motion from selling products with wireless LAN capabilities until the companies can agree on patent...
View ArticleEriccson Transferring Patents In Exchange For Revenue
Ericsson has agreed to transfer 1,922 patents and 263 patent applications to Unwired Planet in exchange for a share in ongoing revenue that they will generate. The transfer includes 753 U.S. patents...
View ArticleWi-Fi Problems Plague Apple-Samsung Trial
There’s a new sign on the door to Courtroom 1 at the federal courthouse in San Jose, the location of the Apple v. Samsung battle that’s playing out this month: “Please turn off all cell phones.” For a...
View ArticleGoogle And Apple Decides To Drop All Patent Lawsuits
Two titans of the mobile phone industry, Apple and Google, have agreed to drop all current patent infringement lawsuits between them. “Apple and Google have also agreed to work together in some areas...
View ArticleToshiba Takes Powerchip To Court
Tosh has been getting a mite litigious of late. In March it filed suit against South Korea's SK Hynix seeking damages in a case over suspected theft of data related to its flash memory chip technology.
View ArticleBose Sues Beats Over Patent Infringement
Headphone maker Bose has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against rival Beats Electronics, which Apple recently agreed to purchase in a US$3 billion deal. In its complaint, Bose alleges that the...
View ArticleAre Software Patents Going Bye Bye?
Basically this means that you can’t take a normal human activity, do it with a computer and call it an patentable invention.
View ArticleGoogle Asks The U.S. Supreme Court For Assistance
In its filing this week, Google said the company would never been able to innovate had the Federal Circuit's reasoning been in place when the company was formed.
View ArticleAzul Goes Java Embedded
"Sun Microsystems [the original owners of Java] were very successful in the embedded market and paved the way for the vast number of applications that already have a Java runtime. With the end of...
View ArticleMicrosoft And Kyocera End Patent Spat
Microsoft and Kyocera called a truce regarding a patent spat that began earlier this year by expanding a patent cross-licensing deal between them. In a tersely worded, four-sentence press release, the...
View ArticleWill Oracle Make Money Off Android?
Oracle sued Google five years ago and is seeking roughly $1 billion in copyright claims if it manages to convince a court that its APIs are in Android it could up the damages by several billions.
View ArticleWas Android Used To Destroy Java?
Oracle argues that the meteoric rise of the Android platform, and its market dominance, based on thousands of lines of Java code and yielding billions in ad revenues, means that the Ellison yachting...
View ArticleIs Oracle Giving Java Executives The Boot?
Oracle has lost the initial case twice, and then won on appeal. There are a lot of possible motives for Oracle's flush of executives, but one theory is that the company has decided to distance itself...
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