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US jury finds the iPhone infringes on three patents from MobileMedia

US jury finds the iPhone infringes on three patents from MobileMedia
  • Posted December 13, 2012, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • A Delaware jury has ruled that the iPhone infringes on multiple patents belonging to MobileMedia, a patent holding company that owns roughly 300 technology-related patents as part of their portfolio. They first filed suit against Apple more than two years…

Samsung alleges jury foreman tainted patent trial with Apple

Samsung alleges jury foreman tainted patent trial with Apple
  • Posted October 3, 2012, 11:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Samsung has requested that a judge toss out a recent verdict awarded to Apple as part of an ongoing patent dispute. The Korean company claims jury foreman Velvin Hogan failed to disclose the fact that he filed for bankruptcy in…

Weekend tech reading: Inconsistencies in Apple v. Samsung ruling

Weekend tech reading: Inconsistencies in Apple v. Samsung ruling
  • Posted August 26, 2012, 1:16 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
  • Late in the process yesterday at the Apple v. Samsung trial, when the parties and the judge were reviewing the jury verdict form, Samsung noticed that there were, indeed, inconsistencies in the jury's verdict form, a possibility Samsung anticipated. In two instances, results were crazily contradictory...

Site owner gets 4 years in prison for unauthorized video sharing

Site owner gets 4 years in prison for unauthorized video sharing
  • Posted August 17, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • Surfthechannel.com owner Anton Vickerman has landed himself a stiff four-year prison sentence after running a website which hosted links to unauthorized video content. That's substantially less than the maximum of 10 years he faced, but almost certainly more than he…

Judge rules in favor of Google, APIs cannot be copyrighted

Judge rules in favor of Google, APIs cannot be copyrighted
  • Posted June 1, 2012, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, Software
  • US District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco has ruled against Oracle in their lawsuit with Google. The judge declared that copyright law does not reside over APIs, specifically in this case, with Google’s use of Java when they developed…

Jury finds Google doesn't infringe Oracle patents with Android

Jury finds Google doesn
  • Posted May 23, 2012, 2:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • A California jury in the Oracle vs. Google trial has concluded after a week of deliberations that Android does not infringe on patents from Oracle. In question were eight counts of infringement that spanned two different patents, RE38,104 and 6,061,520.

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