New documents have been filed in court showing how a number of big, Silicon Valley-based companies operated an informal "no poaching" agreement to prevent them from taking each other's staff. The agreement, which contravened ...
Tags: Apple, Intel and Google, no poaching deals
News that Flowers Food has emerged as the "stalking horse" bidder for various Hostess Brands bread brands in the US caught our attention this week. Meanwhile, an entirely different kind of horse got tongues wagging on this side of the pond ...
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A court in California has allowed Apple and Samsung Electronics to add recent products from both companies in a patent infringement lawsuit. Apple was also allowed to drop its bid to include Samsung's Galaxy S III Mini among infringing ...
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British Telecom has sued 14 mobile operators because of a basic patent infringement. The lawsuit was submitted by Steelhead Licensing, LLC Company on January 4, 2013. British Telecom said, it had the patents of two technologies. One is a ...
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IDG News Service - The patent injunction portion of Google's antitrust settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this week won't mean an end to patent disputes between Google and mobile device makers, but it does take away one major ...
Tags: Google, patent, mobile device, computer information
Apple has dropped its patent-infringement accusations against the Galaxy S III Mini, a mid-market Android smartphone that Samsung Electronics says it is not selling in the U.S. In a filing in the U.S. District Court for Northern ...
Tags: Apple, patent, Galaxy S III Mini, Samsung Electronics, Android, smartphone
A jury in Pennsylvania has ordered chip maker Marvell Technology to pay $1.17 billion for patent infringement in one of the largest awards of its kind. The jury found that Marvell infringed two patents related to hard disk drive ...
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Apple executive Phil Schiller will have to provide further testimony to lawyers for Samsung Electronics as part of the appeal proceedings related to their big patent infringement case, a California court ordered Thursday. The U.S. ...
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A court in California said Thursday that it would consider Samsung Electronics' concern that the foreman of the jury deciding a patent infringement lawsuit between Apple and Samsung had concealed information. A jury in California decided ...
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It was a jittery session for stocks, with shares falling more than 1 percent after Senate Majority Harry Reid warned a deal was unlikely before the deadline, only to rebound merely on the news that the House would reconvene Sunday, ...
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Future Lighting Solutions has signed a global LED distribution deal with LG Innotek, PhotonStar has raised funds and signed a licensing deal, Nichia has received a favorable patent-infringement judgment, and Martin Professional has been ...
Tags: Future Lighting, LG Innotek, Nichia, Martin, Lighting
IDG News Service - The foreman of the jury that recently handed Apple a $1 billion patent victory over Samsung Electronics was untruthful and biased, the South Korean company alleged in a filing with a U.S. court. Samsung wants a retrial of ...
Tags: Apple, patent victory, Samsung Electronics, smartphone
IDG News Service - Telecommunications equipment vendor Ericsson has asked a U.S. court to block sales of a variety of Samsung Electronics cameras, Blu-ray Disc players, televisions and phones, including the Galaxy S III and the Galaxy Note ...
Tags: Telecommunications, Ericsson, Samsung Electronics, Galaxy S III
IDG News Service - As a nine-person jury begins deliberations in the closely watched patent trial between Apple and Samsung, the companies and their lawyers are left waiting and wondering what the jury made of the three weeks of arguments. ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, smartphone market, smartphone
IDG News Service-Concern is building up over the use of litigation over standards-essential patents to block sales of products,with the International Telecommunication Union(ITU)planning to hold a conference that will address what the ...
Tags: International Telecommunication Union, patent litigation