The legal battle between Apple and Samsung Electronics may continue for another year or more despite a jury verdict on Friday that appeared to hand the iPhone maker a solid win. But the wrangling isn't likely to delay Apple's next big ...
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IDG News Service - A federal jury in Delaware has found Apple's iPhone infringes on three patents held by MobileMedia Ideas, a patent-holding company formed by Sony, Nokia and MPEG LA. The jury's verdict in the U.S. District Court for the ...
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Samsung has said that stronger-than-expected sales of its Galaxy smartphones sent operating profits up 90% in the latest quarter, but analysts warned its results could take a hit in the coming months as it books legal damages owed to Apple. ...
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A judge in California has vacated a July jury decision that Research In Motion pay $147.2 million in damages to Mformation Technologies to settle a patent dispute. RIM was not in infringement of U.S. patent no. 6,970,917 ('917 patent) ...
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The Indian offshoring giant Infosys ran a "full-throated campaign of retaliation" against employees to deter them from cooperating with federal authorities investigating visa fraud, according to a new lawsuit. This allegation is made in ...
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Oracle is appealing a $306 million settlement in the TomorrowNow corporate-theft case against German competitor SAP, according to court documents. The Redwood Shores, California, business software company said in a filing on Friday that ...
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Hewlett-Packard's lawsuit against Oracle over the latter's decision to halt future software development for Itanium will enter its second phase on Feb. 4, 2013, in front of a jury that will determine whether Oracle breached a contract and ...
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Samsung Electronics asked a Californian court on Sunday to lift a preliminary ban on sales of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the U.S., after a jury found that Samsung does not infringe on an Apple design patent. Samsung also said it wants ...
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The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled Friday that Apple did not infringe three of Motorola Mobility's patents, while remanding the investigation into a fourth patent to the presiding administrative law judge. The ITC decided to ...
Samsung must pay Apple $1.05 billion for infringing several of its patents in Samsung smartphones and tablets, a California District Court jury decided on Friday. The verdict ending a landmark trial between the two companies is a complex ...
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With the verdict in the Apple-Samsung trial delivered after less than three days it's tempting to think the jury just wanted to get it over with by the weekend, but that's not necessarily the case, one legal expert said Friday. "It's ...
The final specification of DDR4 DRAM, which will help PCs run faster through more power-efficient data transfers, was published Tuesday. DDR4 memory shuffles data faster than DDR3 memory, which is in most new computers available today. ...
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An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has ruled that Apple does not infringe four computing and mobile patents held by Samsung. Administrative Law Judge James Gildea, in a preliminary ruling issued ...
Computer technology accounted for more patent applications in recent years than any other industry sector tracked by the World Intellectual Property Organization, although the number of digital communication patent applications grew faster. ...
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In the latest twist in a saga that has dragged on for seven years, a federal judge on Thursday refused to set aside a $675,000 fine that a jury had imposed on a former Boston University student for illegally downloading 30 songs. In a ...
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