
Apple’s $1 Billion Patent Infringement Verdict Against Samsung Could Turn Out Largely Symbolic
Yet even this massive win with its $1 billion verdict may turn out to be largely symbolic. Yesterday Judge Lucy Koh denied both Samsung...

Apple Notches More Patent-Related Victories Against Android OEMs: Samsung And Motorola
Bloomberg Apple has won another legal victory against rival Samsung, this time in front of the US International Trade Commission (ITC)....

Apple Goes 1 For 2 As Japan Court Rules In Favor Of Samsung
won a major victory “at home” and lost (partly) “on the road” in South Korea, where a court last Friday issued a split decision in its IP...

Google-Apple Patent Détente On The Horizon?
reporting that Google’s CEO Larry Page and Apple CEO Tim Cook have been involved in “behind-the-scenes conversations about a range of...

Google: “Core Android” Not Impacted By Apple-Samsung Verdict
all over the place. Over the weekend Google issued a statement (via TheVerge) that the decision will have no impact on “core Android”...

Google Reveals Prominent Legal Expert Among Paid Consultants
The judge wasn’t satisfied with that response and ordered Google to try again and produce a list of paid commentators by August 24. At...

Will Apple’s Patent Victory Reshape The Smartphone Market?
dramatic Apple victory over Samsung in its patent case in US federal court on Friday. Many bloggers, pundits and tech journalists are now...

Apple Wins: Proves Samsung Infringed Patents As Jury Awards $1B+ In Damages
The jury also found that Samsung’s infringement was “willful” in several cases and awarded Apple more than $1 billion in damages. By the...

As World Awaits US Apple-Samsung Verdict, Parallel Trial Sideshow Ends In S. Korean Court
(Update: see our post-verdict story: Apple Wins: Proves Samsung Infringed Patents As Jury Awards $1B+ In Damages.) Apple might similarly...

Judge: “Google Failed To Comply” With Order To Disclose Paid Authors, Bloggers
On August 17, 2012 Google filed a statement that read in part: Neither Google nor its counsel has paid an author, journalist, commentator...

Google (As Motorola) Sues Apple Over Patents, Seeks US Import Ban On iPhones, Macs
The earlier Motorola ITC patent victory was based on a single claim related to wireless 3G standards. Motorola seeks an import ban on...

Confirmed: Yahoo, Facebook Settle Patent Dispute, Announce Ad & Distribution Partnership
reporting Yahoo has reached a deal with Facebook to drop the patent infringement lawsuit in exchange for expanding their ad and content...

Patent Chaos: Apple Blocks Galaxy Devices, Googlerola To Face Feds Over Licensing
Among the big match-ups are Apple vs Samsung-Android and Motorola (now Google by virtue of the acquisition) vs Apple and Microsoft. Last...

Google Scores Total Victory Against Oracle In Patent Suit
According to reports just coming out, the jury in the Oracle-Google trial has found that Google did not infringe any of Oracle’s patents...

Oracle vs Google Split Decision: Jury Finds Copyright Infringement But Deadlocks On “Fair Use&
published reports, a federal jury earlier today delivered a mixed result in Oracle v. Google. The jury found that Google had in fact...

Judge Says Android Was A Big Money Loser In 2010
Reuters, Judge William Alsup commented on otherwise sealed financial documents submitted by Google to the court. “That adds up to a big...

Facebook To Buy 650 AOL Patents From Microsoft
Microsoft bought more than 925 patents from AOL, the company is turning around and selling about 650 of them to Facebook. The deal also...

Microsoft Buys 800+ AOL Patents For $1.1 Billion
announced an agreement covering the sale of more than 800 AOL patents to Microsoft for $1.056 billion dollars. As part of the agreement,...

Yahoo Sues Facebook For Patent Infringement, How Much Will Facebook Wind Up Paying?
widely reported, Yahoo filed a patent lawsuit against Facebook today in US Federal Court in the Northern District of California. At the...
























