A U.S. International Trade Comission judge is recommending sanctions against Samsung that include an import and sales ban on products found to infringe Apple patents, and the posting of a bond for 88% of the value of some of the devices ...
A Dutch court has banned sales of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy products that infringe on an Apple patent describing a way to scroll through a photo gallery using a touchscreen. The ban only applies to Galaxy products that run Android 2.2.1 ...
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A South Korean court has ruled that technology giants Apple and Samsung Electronics infringed each other's patents. The Seoul Central District Court ordered a partial ban of their products covered by the ruling in South Korea, according ...
IDG News Service - Apple has appealed a judge's decision not to ban from sale in the U.S. 26 Samsung cell phones that were found to infringe on its patents. A jury trial in August found that the Samsung phones had infringed on six Apple ...
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Microsoft has won a third victory in Germany over Google's Motorola unit in the ongoing patent wars between the two companies. A German court ruled that several Motorola tablets and phones infringe a Microsoft patented method for apps to ...
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Samsung has withdrawn its request for an injunction on Apple products in Europe. While the company's lawsuits over patents remain in place, the company has withdrawn its request for a product sales ban against Apple products "Samsung ...
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Lawyers have delivered closing arguments in the first US jury trial in the patent dispute between smartphone makers Samsung and Apple. Apple lawyers accused Samsung of copying Apple designs after realising it could not compete, while ...
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Samsung has filed a complaint against several Ericsson products with the US International Trade Commission(ITC).Samsung claimed that the Swedish technology company has breached seven of its patents on telecommunications networking ...
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One of the seven patents at the heart of Apple's $1.05 billion lawsuit against Samsung Electronics has been tentatively rejected by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), according to documents filed by Samsung with a Californian ...
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Microsoft feels that it has the upper hand in its patent battle with Google-owned Motorola Mobility and wants to put an end to the fight, but only as long as a broad agreement is signed, the company said ina blog post on Tuesday. A ...
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Apple won a preliminary sales ban on Motorola phones and tablets in Germany on Thursday when the regional court of Munich ruled that Motorola infringes on a touchscreen-related patent, a spokeswoman for the court said. Apple sued ...
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Samsung has claimed that the way Android's multitouch software works is not as good as Apple's, in a bid to avoid a recall and ban on sales of its Android smartphones in a patent dispute with Apple in the Netherlands. Apple said in the ...
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Samsung Electronics filed a motion in a U.S. federal court on Monday to add Apple's latest smartphone, the iPhone 5, to its patent lawsuit. Also on Monday, a judge lifted a sales ban on the Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1. Samsung's latest ...
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Samsung is able to keep all its products on sale in the US for at least another three months after Apple’s application for a ban on some product sales was rescheduled. Apple plans to apply for a ban on 24 Samsung products including ...
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Microsoft is suing Motorola Mobility in Germany over a mapping patent that Microsoft alleges covers the Google Maps app that ships on Motorola phones. The two parties met each other in the regional court of Munich on Thursday, where ...
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