It's been very quiet on the Patent Wars front the past few weeks, with very little noise made since the Apple/HTC deal. But now Apple has been found guilty of infringing three MobileMedia patents. More...
Although the ruling between Apple and Samsung's case in the UK was made in June, the Court of Appeal review has now been finalized and reasons as to why Apple has lost have now surfaced. More...
Judge, Lucy Koh, who is leading the trial between Samsung and Apple over patent infringement, has stated that quotes from Steve Jobs must be left out of the court case, as they aren't of relevance. More...
HTC has filed a second lawsuit against Apple, alleging patent infringement. The company claims Apple willingly infringed on their patents with many of their devices, and seek compensation. More...
Android is free? Not if you ask the currently fourth-place player in the mobile market: Microsoft. Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer hinted at this notion last October, stating at Android had "patent fees." Yes, just as... More...
You may recall the lawsuit Oracle filed against Google towards the end of last summer over what Oracle alleges are bits of intellectual property Google lifted from Sun Microsystems, of which Oracle acquired in 2009.... More...
Motorola, one of the major telephone handset makers, has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission accusing Apple of violating 18 patents. In an announcement on the Motorola website, the company said that... More...
Back in March, Apple sued Taiwanese company, HTC for infringing on 20 of their iPhone patents. Today, according to Fortune, HTC has issued their formal response--a counter-suit. The suit involves five patents, which according to... More...
Backweb, an Israeli company which creates communications acceleration software based on Push technology for the Web, intranets and extranets has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft claiming that the Microsoft Windows Update feature infringes on Backweb's... More...
Although Intel's mighty proud of the Core 2 Duo, it looks like the chip wasn't all home-grown - a lawsuit filed today by the University of Wisconsin claims that the processor infringes on patented technology... More...
SanDisk has filed two separate lawsuits in the U.S. District Court in Wisconsin, seeking unspecified damages and a permanent ban on three patent infringements accusing a total of 25 companies of using SanDisk technology in... More...
In this sue-happy world, it was only a matter of time before Linux became a target. A company has dared to declare a patent infringement against not one, but two Linux vendors. IP Innovation and... More...
JuxtaComm alleges that its data integration patents are being infringed by companies that include Microsoft and IBM. Data integration software vendor JuxtaComm Technologies has filed suit in a Texas court alleging patent... More...
Sirius and XM are under fire from various industry organizations and the public in general for their upcoming merger. Earlier last month, the two companies agreed to merge in a $13 billion deal that would... More...
Apple is hiring. You don't need any knowledge in computers or technology. A law degree is required however. Apple is in court fairly often; I'm sure almost everyone is aware of the recent Cisco... More...
The technology used by Vonage Holdings to deliver voicemail service to its 1.6 million VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) telephony customers infringes another company's patent, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. Klausner Technologies has... More...
IDT owned Net2Phone filed a lawsuit late Thursday against eBay owned Skype, claiming the p2p VOIP software infringes on one of it's patents. Net2Phone is seeking an injunction and collection of damages according to the... More...
On Monday Burst.com, a companythat develops software that helps companies speed up the delivery of audio andvideo files, announced that it had filed a countersuit against Apple Computerclaiming that the iTunes software, the iPod, and... More...
Two popular iPod accessory makers are embroiled in a legal dispute that's caused one of them to sue the other, alleging patent infringement. Netalog, the parent company of iPod peripheral maker Digital Lifestyle Outfitters (DLO),... More...
Thanks chulomixed for this submission. The U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, has ordered Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and its U.S. unit to pay $90.7 million in damages to Immersion Corp. for patent... More...
Thanks to IAIHMB for the news. In a twist on the classic David and Goliath formula, Web giant Yahoo is suing Menlo Park, Calif., start-up Xfire for patent infringement. The basis... More...
Patent infringement issues surrounding the JPEG image standard resurfaced on Thursday after a small software vendor filed lawsuits against 31 companies ranging from Adobe Systems Inc. and Apple Computer Inc. to IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co.... More...
...and this is the third Intel-related story for today :rolleyes: -configure Another punch was thrown in the intellectual property scrap between Intel and Patriot Scientific yesterday when Patriot said it has countersued... More...
Los Angeles (Reuters) - Privately held Friskit Inc. on Tuesday said it had filed a patent infringement lawsuit against digital media software provider RealNetworks Inc RNWK.O and its online music unit, Listen.com. San Francisco -based... More...
A federal jury on Tuesday found eBay guilty of patent infringement and ordered the online auction giant to pay $35 million in damages. A U.S. district Court jury sided with MercExchange... More...