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German court has dismissed Motorola's patent lawsuit against Apple

by Steven Sande (Feb 10th, 2012)

In the slugfest between Apple and Motorola Mobility, the Cupertino company has won a round in the German courts. A judge in the Mannheim Regional Court dismissed the Motorola Mobility (MMI) lawsuit against Apple over a patent considered essential to the 3G/UMTS standard. In a typically well-written ...

Apple ban on original Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 stands in Germany

by Steven Sande (Jan 31st, 2012)

Apple achieved a quasi-victory today in the ongoing intellectual property battles with Samsung when an appeals court in Dusseldorf, Germany upheld Apple's requested preliminary ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1. The court's decision also covers the Galaxy Tab 8.9, but not the Galaxy Tab 10.1N -- the ...

Elmer-DeWitt: Apple in "no hurry" to settle iPhone patent lawsuits

by Steven Sande (Jan 9th, 2012)

To Apple-watchers -- in particular tech bloggers -- it seems like Apple is taking forever to settle the lawsuits that are pending against Samsung and other smartphone manufacturers for allegedly infringing on the company's intellectual property. On Fortune's Apple 2.0 site today, long-time Apple ...

Kodak wants $1B in royalties revenue from Apple, RIM

by Dana Franklin (Mar 25th, 2011)

At about 5:00 PM in Washington, D.C., today, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) will decide if it should review a judge's findings from January that concluded neither Apple's iPhone or RIM's Blackberry infringed patents held by Eastman Kodak Company. Antonio Perez, CEO of Kodak, told ...

Rumor: Apple bidding for Nortel patent assets

by Sam Abuelsamid (Dec 12th, 2010)

The formerly high-flying Canadian telecommunications hardware provider Northern Telecom appears to be on its last legs, and Apple and Google are apparently among the vultures circling overhead ready to pick at the most valuable parts of the carcass. The two Silicon Valley companies are said to be ...

Apple expands lawsuit against Motorola

by Sam Abuelsamid (Dec 6th, 2010)

Perhaps the only department at Apple that works longer hours than engineering these days is legal. The most recent legal dust-up in Cupertino has just expanded, as Apple has amended a patent lawsuit against Motorola to include 12 more claims. This particular fracas began in October when Motorola ...

App Store filling up with spammers and clones of popular apps

by Mike Schramm (May 7th, 2010)

Marco Arment has noticed a growing problem on the App Store; as hits emerge from among the free and paid apps, some companies are doing a little search scamming. They're ripping off the names, styles, and sometimes even the art of popular iPhone apps. He went to get the popular Angry Birds game and ...

What's in a name... on the App Store?

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 30th, 2009)

As with the Highlander, ultimately you can only have one iFart app in the store. Oh sure, you can have 60+ fart apps total (scientists estimate by 2025 there will be over 2 million fart apps available), but you can't have two apps with the same name. Even tacking on "the" or similar prefixes won't ...

Apple wins comprehensive patent for iPhone, bares teeth at Palm

by Robert Palmer (Jan 27th, 2009)

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple patent number 7,479,949 covering key aspects of the iPhone's multi-touch user interface. The filing, with 358 pages of drawings and Steve Jobs as its first author, comprehensively describes the iPhone operating system's interface, and how ...

Rumors: iPod to get new Podcast menu?

by Erica Sadun (Dec 1st, 2006)

Sure you can already listen to podcasts on your iPod right now. No "special menu" necessary. So we don't need a podcast menu, do we? Apparently a recent patent filing suggests otherwise. A November 23rd 2006 patent application, discovered by Crunchgear, shows an "iPodcasts" menu as part as a method ...

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