Judge Dr. Peter Guntz of the Munich Regional Court has ruled in Apple’s favor, granting the Cupertino-based company a permanent injunction against Motorola’s implementation of slide-to-unlock in their smartphones. Judge Guntz agreed with Apple’s claims that the Moto’s UI element infringed upon patent EP1964022, which awards the slide-to-unlock software element to the maker of the [...]

Apple is suing Motorola over a patent licensing agreement the company soon to be acquired by Google holds with Qualcomm. The suit stems from a legal battle between the two parties currently being mulled by a German court. Motorola is suing Apple for infringement of European Patent No. 1 010 336 (U.S. Patent No. 6,359,898), [...]

After a preliminary hearing in which a German judge seemed to lean in Samsung favor, a final verdict has been handed down. The Dusseldorf court sees “clear differences” between the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N and Apple’s iPad will not enforce a ban on the device. The tablet was in court after Apple claimed that Samsung [...]

Back in December 2011 Apple won an ITC case against HTC where they sued the Taiwanese smartphone maker for infringing on several of their patents, four to be exact. The courts ruled that only one of those patents were infringed upon by HTC and elected to ban the importation of several devices. The ban wouldn’t [...]

Last week we cringed to learn that Apple had dragged the Galaxy Nexus into their latest round of litigation against Samsung, this time going after the phone for violating a slide-to-unlock patent. It now seems that those reports originating at the FOSS Patents blog were false. A Samsung exec speaking to the Korea Herald says the Galaxy [...]

A Dutch appeals court isn’t budging on the decision handed down by a lower court to not grant a preliminary injunction to Apple banning sale’s of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1. The judge presiding over the case felt that Samsung’s design was different enough that the “informed user” would not mistake it for Apple’s iPad, pointing [...]

Apple is trying their hardest to run the competition out of town, but one report claims the company is gaining little from their global lawsuit rampage. In fact, it sounds like Apple hasn’t been shy about dipping heavily into their own bank account, perhaps to fulfill Steve Jobs’ wish of destroying Android. Dan Lyons of [...]

To add insult to injury, after a German court ruled against Samsung’s claims of patent infringement on the part of Apple, the Cupertino-based company has decided to drag the Galaxy Nexus into court. Apple is alleging that the use of a slide-to-unlock feature in the Android 4.0 flagship device infringes upon their intellectual property. While [...]

Apple and Samsung have been dueling in the courtroom for so long that we forgot about this one. Remember that patent Samsung owned which they believed would pretty much threaten the existence of any Apple product with 3G radios? Well, a judge in Germany just told Samsung to put that one back into their back [...]

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak isn’t ready to make the switch to using an Android phone as his go-to device, but he isn’t shy about offering some praise in Google’s direction. The Woz, who was spied picking up his Galaxy Nexus at the Google campus back in November, admits that the iPhone is the device he [...]

Motorola Mobility has been cleared of patent infringement allegations set forth by Apple and involving technologies related to touchscreen interactions and plug-and-play computing. International Trade Commission Judge Theodore Essex found no violation of patents for multi-touch and gestures nor for “a way to add components without having to run an installation program or rebooting.” The [...]

Here’s one you don’t hear too often. We often see HTC on the receiving end of a lawsuit filed by HTC, but how often are the two companies co-defendents? A new suit filed with the ITC creates that exact scenario. Kodak alleges that Apple and HTC have violated various patents relating to transferring images to [...]

This Christmas the smartphone was the must-have gift and Flurry has the analytics data to back it up. According to their research, an average 1.5 million Android and iOS devices were activated daily between December 1st and 20th. For December 25th the number rose to an estimated 6.8 million, a 353 percent increase. The number [...]

Apple’s case against the revised Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N will likely not hold up, the judge reviewing the case has stated. In Judge Johanna Brueckner-Hofmann’s opinion, changes made to the Galaxy Tab design appear sufficient to comply with a court order banning the sale of the original device. The statement is not a final ruling, [...]

Apple’s just landed a major victory against HTC in a case where the latter was sued for violating patent  #5,946,647, a patent which details a way to analyze and link data structures at the system level. As this is a core functionality of Android’s, other OEMs are at risk. The final decision was a future ban [...]

Apple made a pretty big deal out of the camera on their iPhone 4S, but can it win a head-to-head battle with the HTC Amaze 4G? And we aren’t just talking a sheer spec comparison. Even if we were the Amaze 4G’s 8MP camera still boasts several features that offer a unique advantage over the [...]

Germany’s Manheim Regional Court has handed down a decision in the case of Motorola Mobility v. Apple, finding the latter party guilty of patent infringement. The ruling that Apple has violated the intellectual property of Motorola by infringing upon a “core cellular communications patents related to data packet transfer technology (GPRS)” with the iPhone is enough [...]

As accusations of fouplay within Carrier IQ have turned up due to research work done by Trevor Eckhart – who exposed the company for collecting user information that may be violating the Federal Wiretap Act – some lawsuits shortly followed. One early class action lawsuit targeted HTC, Samsung and Carrier IQ. A new one filed [...]

As patent infringement has quickly become one of the hottest topics in tech, HTC took a gamble by acquiring S3 Graphics and their portfolio of intellectual property back in July for a cost of $300 million. The Taiwanese company was hopeful that the move would pay off by providing not only protection against the allegations [...]

Motorola has filed a suit in a German court claiming elements of Apple’s iCloud service infringe upon patents held by company. Namely, the patents concern email and data sync between Apple’s cloud service and their mobile devices. The judge presiding over the case has not come to any ruling for the moment, but seems to [...]