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Google Exited The Smartphone Manufacturing Business and Shored up Android's Legal Defenses
Feb 10, 2014Google has exited the smartphone manufacturing business and shored up Android's legal defenses in the smartphone patent wars in a single week. The technology giant sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo in a US $12.5-billion deal on Wednesday ...
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Apple Has Acquired Topsy
Dec 4, 2013Apple has acquired Topsy, a social analytics firm, for a rumoured $200m. The company specialises in crunching Twitter data, but Apple will not reveal its plans for the start-up. "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time time, and ...
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Further Reading Apple Is Deleting Negative IOS 7 Messages on Its Forums
Nov 19, 2013As the mobility innovation pool continues to run suspiciously dry, today brings another couple of wacky tidbits from two major technology firms. The first is a reported "curved glass" screen from Apple which, according to a Bloomberg ...
Tags: Apple, Curved Screens, Motorola
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EC Could Hit Google with a Significant Fine for Its Attempts to Enforce an Injunction
May 9, 2013The European Commission (EC) could hit Google with a significant fine for its attempts to enforce an injunction to stop Apple selling its iPhones in Germany. The Commission made the antitrust finding against Motorola Mobility, which ...
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ITC Has No Evidence That Apple Infringed on a Motorola Mobility Covering Touchscreen
Apr 25, 2013The U.S. International Trade Commission has found no evidence that Apple infringed on a Motorola Mobility patent covering a touchscreen function. The finding ends an investigation that began in November 2010 when Motorola petitioned the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Apple Will Not Face an Import Ban on Its iPhones After It Persuaded a US Trade Agency
Apr 24, 2013Apple has ensured that it will not face an import ban on its iPhones, after it persuaded a US trade agency that it did not infringe a sensory patent, owned by Motorola Mobility. Google acquired Motorola's mobile phone unit last year for ...
Tags: apple, Google, Computer Products
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U.S. International Trade Commission Has Decided to Review a December Ruling
Feb 22, 2013The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to review a December ruling by an administrative law judge that Apple did not violate a Motorola Mobility patent relating to a sensor controlled user interface for a portable communication ...
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Judge Has Ruled That 13 Motorola Mobility Patent Claims Related to Digital Are Invalid
Feb 17, 2013A U.S. district court judge has ruled that 13 Motorola Mobility patent claims related to digital video are invalid in a patent licensing case brought by Microsoft. Judge James Robart of U.S. District Court for the Western District of ...
Tags: Motorola Mobility patent, digital video, licensing case
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Google Pledged to Not Seek Injunctions in Most Patent Disputes
Jan 8, 2013IDG 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
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Motorola Mobility Business Has Filed a New Patent Infringement Suit Against Rival Apple
Dec 28, 2012Google's Motorola Mobility business has filed a new patent infringement suit against rival Apple,claiming that a number of Apple iPhone features infringe patents Google acquired when it bought Motorola's mobile phone unit. Motorola is ...
Tags: Mobility files, suit against Apple, Google-owned Motorola, cut jobs
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Google's Decision to Cut 20% of The Workers From Its Motorola Mobility Unit
Dec 26, 2012Computerworld - Google's decision to cut 20% of the workers from its Motorola Mobility unit re-ignited fears that Google was primarily after the 17,000 patents Motorola held when it was acquired in May. "Everyone at Motorola is asking [if ...
Tags: Motorola Mobility, Google, smartphone, tablet
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Google Dropped a Major Part of Its Wide-Ranging Patent-Infringement Battle Against Apple
Dec 26, 2012IDG News Service - Google has dropped a major part of its wide-ranging patent-infringement battle against Apple, withdrawing a complaint to the U.S. International Trade Commission. Google had sought to block iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch ...
Tags: Google, Apple, Motorola Unit, Motorola patents, ITC
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Judge Thomas B. Pender Ruled in His Initial Determination on The Pantent Case
Dec 20, 2012An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled that Apple did not violate a Motorola Mobility patent relating to a sensor controlled user interface for a portable communication device. Judge Thomas B. ...
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The U.S. International Trade Commission Ruled That Apple Did Not Infringe Three of Patents
Dec 18, 2012The 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 ...
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Motorola Mobility and Microsoft Have Agreed to Suspend Their Patent Against Each Other
Dec 18, 2012Motorola Mobility and Microsoft have agreed to suspend their patent claims against each other in three U.S. cases until a November trial on Microsoft claims that Motorola has not lived up to promises to license some video and Wi-Fi patents ...
Tags: Motorola Mobility, patent