The patent battle between Samsung and Apple moves to a federal court in California today. The technology firms have each accused the other of intellectual property infringement, which has led to several court battles around the world in ...
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The jury found that Marvell infringed two university's patents A federal jury in the US ordered chipmaker Marvell Technology to pay$1.17bn in damages for patent infringement following a lawsuit filed by Carnegie Mellon University in 2009. ...
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Samsung Display will terminate its contract to supply LCD panels for Apple due to financial pressures caused by Apple's tight supply chain management, according to a news report published in The Korea Times on Monday. Samsung can't ...
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A judge in the US has denied Apple's request to ban sales of Samsung smartphones that Apple claims violated its patents. The decision was made due to the lack of evidence to prove the infringed patents had hurt Apple's US sales. "The ...
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Research in Motion (RIM) has been ordered to pay $147.2m to Mformation Technologies in damages for patent infringement. The patent ruling comes at a difficult time as the BlackBerry maker struggles to regain market share and boost ...
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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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A US judge has ordered Apple to disclose details of its patent-sharing deal with HTC to rival Samsung. Earlier this month, Apple and HTC signed a 10-year licence agreement, but did not disclose the details. Samsung, which is involved in ...
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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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IDG News Service - Oracle has sued former partner CedarCrestone on grounds it has been providing third-party support for Oracle's software in an illegal fashion, a move that echoes previous actions Oracle took against former SAP subsidiary ...
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Computerworld - The jury's decision Friday in the landmark Samsung-Apple patent battle doesn't relate to the core of the Android mobile operating system, Google said in a brief statement Monday. The jury ordered that Samsung pay Apple ...
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IDG News Service - The judge in Apple's patent-infringement suit against Samsung Electronics turned down Apple's request that she rule in its favor as punishment for an improper disclosure by Samsung. Judge Lucy Koh issued her decision ...
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IDG News Service - A court in California has scheduled a hearing for Dec. 6 on Apple's request for a permanent injunction against eight Samsung phones, according to court papers filed Tuesday. Meanwhile, the court will hear next month ...
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iMessage, the Apple messaging technology that the company has urged customers use to avoid an SMS spoofing bug, remains under a patent litigation cloud, with a trial slated for November. Last week, a researcher known for uncovering iPhone ...
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Apple has requested a court in California to sanction Samsung Electronics in a patent infringement dispute by granting judgment in favor of Apple, after the South Korean company released to the press documents including exhibits that were ...
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Apple will ask a federal court to sanction Samsung Electronics for releasing documents that were not allowed as evidence in the companies' dueling patent-infringement suits. In a letter to Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the ...
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