patents

Samsung Demands Judges Scrap $930m Apple Patent Damage Award

Apple and Samsung have returned to court, in an appeals hearing over an earlier $930m award against the South Korean…

10 years ago

BlackBerry Patent Awards Hints At Possible Wearable Devices

BlackBerry awarded at least 27 new US patents that reveal the type of devices currently under development

10 years ago

Google Asks US Supreme Court To Rule On Oracle Android Java Dispute

Google says if Oracle is able to assert java API copyright over Android, then innovation will be stifled

10 years ago

Apple And Samsung Declare Patent Truce Outside The US

Apple and Samsung declare a partial truce over their continued patent battles as they ready themselves for one final US…

10 years ago

Microsoft Demands Samsung Pay Android Patent Payments

Microsoft sues Samsung after Korean manufacturer allegedly stops paying Android royalties

10 years ago

Google, SAP And Friends Unite Against Patent Trolls

Some of the world’s largest patent holders say they have invented ‘arms control for the patent world’

10 years ago

Supreme Court Ruling Will Help EU Software Providers Patent In The US

Intellectual property lawyer Karl Barnfather says tougher software patents will benefit businesses based in the UK

10 years ago

Chinese Website Discloses Microsoft Android Patents

A Chinese government website has published a list of the patents Microsoft claims give it the right to licence fees…

10 years ago

Elon Musk Gives Away All Of The Tesla Patents

CEO of Tesla Motors says the company will not sue anyone for using its proprietary technologies

10 years ago

Apple Requests Sales Ban, Retrial In A Case Against Samsung

Apple has requested that a Californian court ban offending Samsung products from the US in the ongoing smartphone patent row

10 years ago

Apple, Google Settle Motorola Patent Lawsuits

Apple and Google have agreed to settle their patent lawsuits related to Motorola Mobility, with Apple pursuing its cases against…

11 years ago

EC Seeks To End Patent Abuse With Motorola And Samsung Rulings

EC says smartphone manufacturers cannot seek injunctions over standards essential patents

11 years ago

US Appeals Court Resurrects Apple Motorola Patent Row

Apple Motorola patent row rumbles on as court says iPhone manufacturer can seek sales ban

11 years ago

Motorola Solutions Licenses Android Patents From Microsoft

Motorola Solutions, the remainder of the company that sold its handset division to Google in 2012, has joined the ranks…

11 years ago

Microsoft Nokia Takeover Is Granted Chinese Regulatory Approval

Chinese Ministry of Commerce appears to be satisfied Microsoft won't abuse Nokia patent portfolio

11 years ago

Marvell Ordered To Pay Carnegie Mellon $1.54 Billion For Storage Patent Infringement

The judge increases the fine by $366 million to penalize “egregious behaviour”

11 years ago

Microsoft Extracts Android Royalties From Dell

Microsoft continues its pursuit of companies using Google's Android operating system for royalty payments

11 years ago

Judge Denies Apple Attempt To Ban US Samsung Phone Sales

Samsung also loses appeal against fines, will have to pay Apple $930m as ruling is upheld

11 years ago

It’s Not Too Late For ‘Weightless’ Innovators To Join The Race

Denis Keseris, a patent attorney at Withers & Rogers, says the Internet of Things standard developed in Cambridge has plenty…

11 years ago

Samsung And Google Express Microsoft-Nokia Patent Fears To Chinese Regulator

Microsoft Nokia deal creates fears that Android manufacturers will be charged more in patent fees

11 years ago

Microsoft Backs US Patent Reform Plan

Microsoft has added its support to a White House effort to revamp the US patent system

11 years ago

Typo Products Says BlackBerry Can’t Patent Physical Keyboards

The US start-up wants to continue selling familiar-looking accessories for iPhones

11 years ago

HTC Settles Patent Row With Nokia, But Revenues Fall Again In Q4

HTC to focus on mid-range to engineer a recovery as sales slump again

11 years ago

Cisco, Samsung Reach Patent Deal

The agreement between Cisco and Samsung follows similar arrangements between Cisco and Google and Samsung and Google

11 years ago

Google To Own Six Percent Of Lenovo As Part Of Motorola Mobility Deal

Search engine giant will complete deal upon completion of Motorola Mobility sale

11 years ago

Google Signs Patent Deal With Cisco

Google and Cisco have teamed up to protect themselves from future patent lawsuits

11 years ago

Google And Lenovo’s Win-Win Deal For Motorola

Google may have lost money on Motorola Mobility, says Peter Judge, but selling the unit to Lenovo was the right…

11 years ago

Court Orders Google To Pay Out AdWords Royalties

Google could end up paying out 1.36 percent of its AdWords revenue to Vringo - which owns some Lycos patents

11 years ago

Samsung Agrees Cross-Licence Patent Deal With Google, Settles Ericsson Dispute

Android partners strengthen ties with new patent agreement

11 years ago

Qualcomm Hoovers Up HP’s Palm Patents

HP finally gets rid of the patents it acquired in the disastrous purchase of Palm back in 2010

11 years ago