Yahoo has appointed leading Google executive Marissa Mayer as chief executive officer, ending months of speculation. The surprise move comes just over a week after interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn helped end a patent battle with Facebook ...
A US court is to review a jury's decision to award Apple$1bn in damages in its patent dispute with rival Samsung. Samsung wants the verdict overturned or the damages reduced,while Apple wants to increase the amount and ban some of ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, patent dispute, Galaxy Tab, Smartpgone
The number of devices that allegedly infringe patents held by Apple and Samsung continues to grow,with Apple adding six more products to its case against its South Korean rival. The rival companies are fighting cases against each other in ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Patent Battle
Rival smartphone makers Apple and HTC have settled all outstanding disputes over patents. The agreement has seen HTC both losing and winning court battles against Apple in just over two-and-a-half years of legal wrangling. In ...
Tags: Apple, HTC, Android operating system, smartphone
Apple has published a statement on its website acknowledging a High Court ruling that Samsung did not infringe Apple design patents in the UK. However, the unapologetic statement concludes that, while the UK court did not find Samsung ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, design patents, iPad design
As we have reported several times in LEDs Magazine, Philips has a very extensive portfolio of LED- and SSL-related patents that it makes available, for a licensing fee, via its ''LED-based luminaires and retrofit bulbs'' licensing program. ...
Tags: Philips, LED licensing program, Attracts More Licensees
The South Korean mobile manufacturer has claimed its profits will almost double this quarter,despite its high-profile patent battle with Apple. Samsung has given investors a sneak peek at its upcoming results and,despite the massive legal ...
Samsung has opened its defence in its patent dispute with Apple. Further reading Apple claims a quarter of Samsung's ₤19.4bn US sales result from infringements Apple and Samsung trade accusations in first day of $2.5bn patent ...
Tags: Samsung, Apple, smartphones, patent dispute
Apple and Samsung's ongoing legal drama,which is currently unfolding in federal court in San Jose,California,has seen Apple produce an accountant who,the company says,has calculated that Samsung owes it$2.75bn(£1.75bn)in damages to ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, nfringements, crisis of design
Samsung is the world's most successful mobile phone maker because the launch of the Apple iPhone caused a 'crisis of design' at the company, leading to design improvements - while Nokia ignored the competitive threat until it was too late. ...
Tags: Samsung, mobile phone, Apple, design improvements
Samsung has rejected Apple's claim that it copied the iPhone during opening arguments in the first court clash between the two technology companies before a US jury in San Jose, California. The technology firms have each accused the other ...
Tags: Samsung, Apple, iPhone, iPad, user interface
In what has been billed as the biggest patent battle ever, lawyers representing Apple and Samsung traded verbal blows in the opening round of the legal battle. The four-week trial began in San Jose, California yesterday. Apple is looking ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Harold McElhinny, iPhone
Yahoo global media head Ross Levinsohn, who until two weeks ago was tipped as the next chief executive, has resigned from the company. He was appointed interim CEO in May after Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson resigned over inaccuracies ...
Apple and Samsung have agreed to drop some of the patent infringement claims they have filed against each other,they said Monday.The move will help simplify the litigation between the two companies when it goes in front of a California jury ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, drop some patent, San Jose courtroom
Yahoo and Facebook have ended their four-month patent battle and formed an advertising partnership. In March,Yahoo sued Facebook for infringing 10 patents ahead of the social network's planned public listing. The following ...
Tags: Yahoo, Facebook, Partnership, Collaborate