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AOL sells 800 patents to Microsoft in $1 billion deal
- AOL announced it has reached an agreement with Microsoft to sell over 800 of its patents and a number of relevant patent applications for $1.056 billion in cash. According to the Wall Street Journal, the move was prompted by a…
European Commission probes Motorola Mobility over patent abuse
- Responding to complaints by Apple and Microsoft, the European Commission, Europe's competition regulator has launched two antitrust investigations into Motorola Mobility to assess whether the firm abused its standard-essential patents with unfair licensing conditions and litigation against rivals.
German ruling spells trouble for Motorola's 3G patent lawsuits
- Motorola Mobility has been dealt a blow in Germany after a court ruled in favor of Apple in the ongoing standard-essential patent battle between the two firms, in which Motorola is suing Apple after refusing the Cupertino-based company’s FRAND licensing…
Apple, Microsoft and RIM cleared to buy Nortel patents
- The crazy gold rush for wireless patents hit a new milestone yesterday as the US Department of Justice approved several patent purchases and acquisitions. In the same report it released to approve the Google buyout of Motorola for $12.5 billion, …
Apple wins 3G patent case against Motorola in Germany
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Motorola Mobility Holdings lost its third patent case against Apple in Mannheim, Germany on Friday after failing to show that the Cupertino based iPhone maker was violating their 3G/UMTS patent for mathematical sequences in mobile...
Motorola seeking 2.25% of Apple's mobile sales for 3G patent use
- Motorola has been causing some trouble for Apple in Germany recently, with the company winning and injunction on iCloud and enforcing a previous ruling that required the Cupertino giant to pull some iPhone models from stores in that country. The…
Motorola blocks some Apple devices in Germany, wins iCloud injunction
- Apple has been dealt a couple of blows today in the ongoing patent infringement cases filed against the company by Motorola. The first involves a decision by the Mannheim Regional Court, in which Judge Andreas Voss issued a permanent injunction…
Motorola targets iPhone 4S and iCloud in new lawsuit, probably with Google's blessing
- The patent wars rages on in the smartphone and tablet markets and the latest salvo comes from none other than Motorola Mobility, which is currently in the process of being acquired by Google. On Wednesday, the company filed yet another…
Microsoft strikes another Android patent licensing deal
- Microsoft announced today it has signed a patent-licensing deal with LG covering the company's tablets, mobile phones and other devices running Android or Chrome OS. This marks the company's 11th such arrangement with Android device makers, including HTC, Samsung and…
Samsung victorious, tablet ban finally lifted in Australia
- Apple lost its final appeal today against the lifting of an injunction put in place in Australia by Justice Bennett. Samsung had appealed the October ruling before the country's Federal Court of Appeals, which unanimously agreed to lift the sales injunction…
HTC faces ban in Germany over alleged patent infringement
- HTC could suffer a very ill timed sales ban in Germany, after it withdrew its appeal to a patent claim over 3G/UMTS standards won by German firm IPCom in February 2009 in a Mannheim court. HTC said the appeal was…
HTC re-evaluates S3 Graphics deal in light of patent defeat
- Taiwanese phone manufacturer HTC is said to be re-evaluating whether to proceed with the intended $300 million purchase of S3 Graphics after the company suffered a defeat in its ITC patent dispute against Apple earlier this week.
S3 Graphics' ITC case against Apple collapses
- Yesterday marked the final nail in the coffin for S3 Graphics in its U.S. International Trade Commission case against Apple for its alleged violation of patents. The report (PDF) stated, "having examined the record of this investigation, including the ALJ’s final…
Huawei latest target in Microsoft's Android patent crusade
- Chinese telecom firm Huawei has become the latest target of Microsoft's continued Android-related IP patent licensing program, with the software giant reportedly demanding royalty payments for the company's use of Android software.
Microsoft, Quanta Computer sign Android patent agreement
- Microsoft signed another Android-related patent agreement yesterday with Taiwan-based notebook, tablet and smartphone manufacturer Quanta Computer. The deal will cover all of Quanta's Android or Chrome platforms, and Microsoft will receive royalties for every device sold.
Microsoft to get $444 million from Android patent licensees
- Microsoft signed a major licensing agreement with Samsung yesterday over the use of some of its mobile patents on Android phones and tablets. The deal followed a string of similar agreements with other manufacturers looking to avoid a battle in…
S3 targets Apple in latest patent infringement complaint
- S3 Graphics, the VIA subsidiary being bought by HTC, filed a complaint against Apple with the US International Trade Commission and US District Court of Delaware for patent infringement. This is a separate complaint from the one its current parent…
VIA sues Apple for patent infringement
- In the latest round of patent lawsuits, Taiwanese chipmaker VIA announced on Wednesday that it has taken legal action against Apple, filling a complaint with the US International Trade Commission and US District Court of Delaware for patent infringement.
Patent wars infographic: a new age of competition
- It seems hardly a day goes by anymore without a story about a new lawsuit that has been filed claiming patent infringement. Although the whole idea behind the patent system is to protect innovations and their inventors, some argue that…
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