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Apple and Samsung to meet in San Francisco for settlement talks

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 17th, 2012)

As reported by FOSS Patents: "Within 90 days, they will make another effort to settle their dispute. They will meet in a San Francisco courthouse for settlement talks that will be overseen by U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero." This is still semi-voluntary and doesn't mean anything will ...

Demand for the iPhone 4S still high six months after its release

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 11th, 2012)

A recent ChangeWave survey suggests demand for the iPhone 4S is still high six months after the handset launched. ChangeWave surveyed 4,413 consumers and 56 percent of future smartphone buyers say they plan on purchasing an iPhone. This is up two percentage points from a previous survey ...

Samsung to challenge Apple's iAds, Google

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 4th, 2012)

Samsung is entering the mobile advertising space by working with OpenX Technologies on a project that would let advertisers place ads on its mobile devices, says a report in The Wall Street Journal. This new service would compete with Apple's iAds and Google's own mobile advertising. Samsung ...

Watch out, Apple -- that Samsung in your mirror may be closer than you think

by Steven Sande (Apr 2nd, 2012)

The iPhone 4S is currently the king of the hill when it comes to smartphone sales in the U.S., but Samsung is coming on strong as the second place manufacturer for U.S. mobile carriers according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley. AppleInsider posted the analyst's report that ...

Apple, Sony, others sued by Graphics Properties

by Mike Schramm (Mar 27th, 2012)

Apple and a few other big electronics companies are facing yet another lawsuit, this time from a company called Graphics Properties, formerly known as Silicon Graphics. These patents target a process that turns text and images into pixels for display on mobile screens, and Silicon Graphics is ...

Apple approached Samsung in attempt to avoid litigation

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 22nd, 2012)

Last year Apple lawyer Richard Lutton said Steve Jobs contacted Samsung prior to any legal skirmish and tried to give Samsung the "chance to do the right thing." Spotted by The Verge, a recent filing by Apple in a California Federal Court confirms that Apple met with Samsung four times ...

German court halts Apple's second slide-to-unlock case against Samsung

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 16th, 2012)

The Mannheim Court in Germany has delayed Apple's second slide-to-unlock case against Samsung, says FOSS Patents. During this pause in proceedings, the German Patent and Trademark Office is examining the validity of Apple's slide-to-unlock utility model. A utility model is a quickly-approved ...

Survey: iPads the choice of 84% of companies buying tablets

by Steven Sande (Mar 13th, 2012)

Apple's going to need to keep those supplier factories in China running 24/7 just to meet the demand from corporate buyers. A new ChangeWave Research survey of 1,604 corporate buyers shows that not only are about one in five companies planning on purchasing tablets for employees, but of those ...

A new iPad looms, others still DOA

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 7th, 2012)

Apple is poised to announce its next generation iPad today and, as expected, the tablet is dominating the news. Even mainstream news outlets like Foxnews and CNN have reports on the highly-anticipated device. As CNN Money points out, this contrasts greatly from the launch of your average Android ...

Samsung files new lawsuit against Apple in S. Korea

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 7th, 2012)

On the day of Apple's expected iPad announcement, Samsung has confirmed it filed another lawsuit against Apple claiming the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S infringe on three of its patents. This latest round of litigation was filed in Korea, Samsung's home country. According to the Reuters report, the ...

German court tosses one Apple suit, one Samsung suit

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 2nd, 2012)

The Mannheim Regional Court was busy this morning, handing down two rulings that threw out one of Samsung's 3G/UMTS lawsuits against Apple and one of Apple's slide-to-unlock lawsuits against Samsung. This slide-to-unlock case is separate from the one Apple won earlier this week in the Munich I ...

'Everything is a Remix' examines software patents

by Chris Rawson (Feb 21st, 2012)

In case you haven't seen it yet, the fourth episode of Kirby Ferguson's "Everything is a Remix" series went live in mid-February on Ferguson's site. As in the previous three episodes in the series, Ferguson examines modern attitudes toward "intellectual property" and how these attitudes rather ...

Samsung's iCloud rival delayed

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 21st, 2012)

Engadget is reporting Korea's ETNews' claim that Samsung's S-Cloud is delayed because Samsung decided to change the way the cloud infrastructure works. Samsung is hoping that S-Cloud will rival Apple's iCloud and is now looking at Korea's KT public cloud service to use as a backbone for its ...

WSJ: Apple seeks injunction to block sales of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus

by Michael Rose (Feb 12th, 2012)

Apple is asking for a preliminary injunction to block US sales of the Galaxy Nexus, according to the Wall Street Journal. The current suit, filed in San Jose's federal district court on Wednesday of this past week, accuses Samsung's phone of infringing on four Apple patents. The patents in question ...

Court says reworked Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N can be sold in Germany

by Mike Schramm (Feb 9th, 2012)

Apple's been going back and forth in German courts over the Samsung Galaxy Tab, suggesting it "borrows" a few too many features from the iPad, but the latest ruling has fallen in Samsung's favor. A German court has now decided that the Galaxy Tab has "clear differences" from the iPad, and thus can ...