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Firefox mobile may include H.264 support as Mozilla rethinks opposition
- In an effort to maintain an unencumbered experience for users, the Mozilla Foundation is reconsidering its stance against supporting H.264 video. If the organization decides to relax its policy for using only open standards, we can expect to see H.264…
Samsung, RIM sued over emoticon display patent :-(
- Described as "pictorial representations of an expression or a person's mood", emoticons are widely used amongst habitual texters. Unfortunately for Samsung, Research In Motion and possibly others, Varia Holdings claims they own a patent which would prevent companies from providing a…
Yahoo files lawsuit against soon-to-be-public Facebook
- Yahoo has filed a lawsuit against Facebook claiming that the company is infringing on 10 of its patents covering advertising, privacy controls, social networking, among other things. The timing is no coincidence, of course. The move comes shortly after Facebook…
Microsoft: Motorola and Google are trying to 'kill video on the Web'
- Microsoft has launched a legal assault against Motorola for requesting unfair patent royalties involving video streaming. Filed with the European Commission, the complaint alleges that Motorola has broken a promise to license patents on industry-standard technologies in a "fair, reasonable…
Nortel's internal network "owned" by hackers for almost a decade
- According to the Wall Street Journal, Nortel was unwittingly victimized for nearly 10 years by suspected Chinese hackers with "widespread" access to the company's internal network. The infiltration was so severe, the individuals responsible are believed to have had the…
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, …
EU, US approve Google's $12.5 billion buyout of Motorola Mobility
- The EU and US approved Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility today. European regulators were first to greenlight the transition, saying it doesn't present issues. The US Department of Justice mirrored that decision hours later. With those blessings, Google…
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...
Apple loses preliminary injunction against Galaxy Tab 10.1N
- Dismissing Apple's attempted injunctions, a Duesseldorf court has cleared the modified Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N for sale in Germany. The decision comes after several rulings against Samsung in a series of bitter patent suits. Apple succeeded in blocking the original…
Tim Berners-Lee defends the open web from patent threat
- The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee testified in Federal Court on Tuesday giving evidence as part of the defense of a rather remarkable patent trial that’s getting under way in Tyler, Tx, where Michael Doyle is…
Apple sued for $1.6 billion for using "iPad" in China, apology requested
- A major Chinese display company, Proview Technology, has demanded that Apple cease using "iPad" in China. After engaging in "ambiguous" negotiations with Apple over the matter, executives at Proview have decided to take legal action by suing the company for 1.6 billion…
Nvidia and Rambus settle four-year memory patent dispute
- In 2008, Rambus accused Nvidia of infringing upon 17 patents across six of their product lines. After four years of legal sparring, the companies have finally decided to resolve the matter privately. The newly struck deal will be valid for…
U.S. PTO invalidates Rambus' third "Barth" patent
- The appeals board at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released a ruling on January 24 that invalidates the third Barth patent held by Rambus, pertaining to memory chips used in computers which the firm successfully used to intimidate…
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…
HTC loses to Apple, several Android phones banned in the U.S.
- The U.S. International Trade Commission finally issued its decision on a patent dispute between Apple and HTC. The determination states that several of the manufacturer's Android-based handsets will be banned from sale and import in the United States on April…
BT sues Google over six key Android patent infringements
- This year has been without a doubt the year of lawsuits, with many high profile companies battling it out in courtrooms throughout the world over intellectual property and patent disputes. Barely a day goes by without Apple or Samsung hitting…
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…
Apple loses U.S. injunction request against Samsung
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Apple and Samsung had their latest legal encounter in a San Jose, California court at the end of last week. In April, Apple sued Samsung for "copying the look and feel" of its iPhone and iPad in its Galaxy range of phones and tablets...
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 collects royalties from over half of all Android devices sold
- Microsoft has announced their tenth license agreement that provides patent coverage for Android mobile phones and tablets. The deal marks the ninth agreement for Microsoft in the past four months but more importantly, the announcement means that Microsoft is collecting…
Google: Motorola buy won't put us into handset manufacturing business
- Andy Rubin, senior vice president of mobile at Google, has stated that the company doesn’t plan to get into the handset manufacturing business as a result of their planned acquisition of Motorola Mobility that was announced earlier this year. This…
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