Neowin News Feed for: Litigation

Apple tried to license iOS patents to Samsung back in 2010

Tyler Holman — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 18:06:05 +0100

For all their rhetoric against Android, Apple was open to licensing its iOS patents to Samsung as far back as 2010, according to new evidence from the patent trial between the two tech giants. Read more...

Jury issues partial verdict in favor of Oracle against Google

Anthony Tosie — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:04:09 +0100

In a controversial ruling in the Oracle v. Google Java lawsuit, the jury issued a partial verdict in favor of Oracle. The jury's results have prompted Google to motion for a mistrial. Read more...

Nokia sued by investor for using Windows Phone

Anthony Tosie — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:37:25 +0100

An investor is suing the company because its choice of Windows Phone has not turned the company around as initially promised. Read more...

EU court rules programming languages can't be copyrighted

Anthony Tosie — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:19:44 +0100

The highest court in the European Union ruled yesterday that programming languages cannot be copyrighted, although original works created from programming languages can be. Read more...

Judge: "I've had my fill of frivolous filings by Apple"

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:47:45 +0100

Judge Richard A. Posner had harsh words for Apple's recent motions against Motorola, saying he's fed up with Apple's frivolous filings. Read more...

ITC judge finds Microsoft's Xbox infringes on Motorola patents

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:39:02 +0100

A U.S. International Trade Commission judge issued a ruling today which found Microsoft's Xbox 360 infringes on four of Motorola's patents relating to H.264 video encoding. Read more...

Motorola found to be violating one of Microsoft's patents in preliminary ruling

Brad Sams — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:20:23 +0000

The US ITC has issued a preliminary ruling in the Microsoft/Motorola patent complaint. As it stands, Motorola has been found to be violating one of Microsoft's mobile patents. Read more...

Litigation is a great investment

Mr magoo — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 14:24:47 +0100

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Baystar, a group that recently invested (and even more recently un-invested) in SCO, have conceeded that the reason why they invested in SCO was because they banked on getting a good return from the litigation... Read more...

Roxio mulls Easy litigation

configure — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:53:57 +0000

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Roxio told us today it hasn't decided if it is to pursue litigation against a one-man Finnish developer for trademark infringement. Jukka Poikolanien has been selling Easy CD-DA Extractor since 1998, but... Read more...