Firm that sued Apple, Google And RIM purchased more than 2,000 patents from Ericsson 11 Jan 2013, 22:51 12

Unwired Planet has some legal battles going on against Apple, Google and RIM which are three pretty big...

Patents granted to Google rose 170% in 2012 10 Jan 2013, 11:34 11

Google's intellectual property portfolio increased last year as the number of patents granted to the...

Justice Department and USPTO weigh in on using SEP patents to win sales bans 08 Jan 2013, 20:15 7

The U.S. Department of Justice and the USPTO made a joint-policy statement on Tuesday saying that standards-essential...

Apple asks the full Court of Appeals to reverse the decision not to ban the Samsung GALAXY Nexus 07 Jan 2013, 17:04 38

Apple has filed with the full Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to reexamine a previous ruling made in...

Apple to appeal dismissal of FRAND litigation against Motorola 04 Jan 2013, 23:37 35

Looking to re-start its litigation against Motorola over FRAND patents, Apple has filed an appeal over...

Apple says Samsung should withdraw its U.S. legal claims as it did in Europe 02 Jan 2013, 20:59 36

Apple filed a response with the U.S. ITC accusing Samsung of filing to withdraw its requests for sales...

Samsung will have to reveal sales data in Apple patent lawsuit 02 Jan 2013, 03:17 5

Samsung will have to reveal sales data in its patent lawsuit with Apple as the Koreans lost a bid to...

Samsung faces some tough remedies in its ITC patent battle with Apple 29 Dec 2012, 12:55 53

A ruling in late October from the ITC that Samsung infringed on four Apple patents could have a number...

Apple withdraws patent claim against Samsung phone 28 Dec 2012, 14:17 76

Apple has dropped a patent claim against Samsung and a new pone with a hi-res display because it is not...

Samsung asks ITC to ban some of Ericsson's telecom equipment in the U.S. 26 Dec 2012, 06:22 12

On Wednesday, Korean manufacturer Samsung said it had filed with the U.S. ITC for a U.S. sales and import...

Samsung sues Apple in Korea over Apple iPhone Notification Center 22 Dec 2012, 02:29 119

As soon as Apple released a Notification Center in 2011, many expected Google to sue Apple what would...

EU planning anti-trust case against Samsung; Apple appeals Koh's ruling on a sales ban 21 Dec 2012, 03:06 13

Samsung's stock has taken its worst tumble in four month in Seoul after the EU said that it was preparing...

Google sells Motorola Mobility Home, the set-top box division for $2.35 billion to Arris 20 Dec 2012, 06:10 6

Google bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in what was probably the biggest tech deal of 2012,...

Google/Apple teamup succeeds in purchasing Kodak patents for $525M 19 Dec 2012, 15:28 27

When we first heard about this, we were pretty surprised, but it seemed to go along with Eric Schmidt's...

Judge Koh shoots down Apple's request for a ban and Samsung's motion for a new trial 18 Dec 2012, 00:59 46

Judge Lucy Koh is now starting to hand out her decisions on motions made by Samsung and Apple related...

Microsoft and Motorola ask court to keep certain details of patent suit sealed 17 Dec 2012, 06:31 1

A filing with the Western District of Washington reveals that both Microsoft and Motorola Mobility have...

Apple found guilty of infringing on three MobileMedia Ideas patents, damages could be "substantial" 13 Dec 2012, 20:22 54

A Delaware jury has ruled that Apple infringed on three patents held by MobileMedia Ideas LLC, which...

Google is part of group that files a brief asking courts to stop honoring vague patents 10 Dec 2012, 02:01 11

Google, Dell and Zynga are part of a group that filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals asking that...

USPTO: Apple's '949 patent, aka the "Steve Jobs patent", is invalid 07 Dec 2012, 16:46 58

Following up on October's ruling that Apple's rubber-banding patent (the overscroll bounce) is invalid,...

Samsung and Apple meet with Judge Lucy Koh for post-trial hearing 06 Dec 2012, 22:54 11

In the long awaited post-trial hearing, both Samsung and Apple argued certain motions in front of Judge...

Google's Eric Schmidt on the relationship with Apple: the adults are talking now 05 Dec 2012, 05:19 19

Google's Eric Schmidt sat down with the Wall Street Journal for an interview, mainly focused on the strained...

Apple gets design patents for the Apple iPhone 4 and the Apple iPad 2 among other things 04 Dec 2012, 18:12 19

The late Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive are credited with the design patents awarded to Apple for the Apple...

Apple applies for patent on wireless charging system 02 Dec 2012, 14:07 112

Apple envisions a world with near-field magnetic resonance charging electronic devices up to a yard away...

Samsung sued by Ericsson over refusal to renew FRAND patents 28 Nov 2012, 12:47 34

Swedish based Ericsson is taking Korean based Samsung to court for refusing to renew a licensing agreement...

Will RIM stop selling Wi-Fi products because of Nokia? 28 Nov 2012, 05:12 22

It looks like Nokia wants to prevent RIM from selling Wi-Fi products through a U.S. court, by enforcing...

Apple bought partial rights to use "lightning" trademark from Harley-Davidson 26 Nov 2012, 05:45 7

Apple's EU trademark filing for the "lightning" connector reveals that the Cupertino tech titan had to...

Samsung adds iPad mini, iPad 4, and iPod Touch to lawsuit 21 Nov 2012, 21:19 29

The first lawsuit between Apple and Samsung was a bloodbath, and round 2 isn't shaping up to be any less...