Apple’s latest Android nemesis in Europe? Not Samsung, and not a small-time Spanish tablet maker, but Motorola: the company, currently getti… Read more »
Lodsys, the controversial “patent troll” that has sued everyone from the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) to Angry Birds, recently set its sights… Read more »
Software patent opponents tried to pull the direct democracy lever at the White House but struck out earlier this week. Now they are reassem… Read more »
More turmoil this week from BlackBerry maker RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) that could not be mitigated by the news of the launch of a new distribution de… Read more »
Another development in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) versus Android patent story as the various cases work their way through the courts. Samsung ha… Read more »
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has been going tooth and nail after big Android device makers, especially Samsung, accusing them in courts worldwide of l… Read more »
It’s been hard to go anywhere in Silicon Valley during 2011 and not have patents come up over the course of a friendly discussion about the… Read more »
You’ve heard this one before: a lawyer obtains a spurious patent and demands a major company to pay him handsomely for infringing it. This t… Read more »
A little twist in the fate of MOSAID, the company that in September agreed to take over the management of 2,000 Nokia (NYSE: NOK) patents fo… Read more »
Samsung’s competitive threat to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the smartphone space — being played out not only among consumer… Read more »
John Desmarais is famous in patent law circles for obtaining a $1.5 billion verdict against Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) in 2007 and, more recentl… Read more »
How times change. In 2006, critics feared that one company would use a controversial patent to gain a monopoly over learning software in sch… Read more »
Microsoft’s quest to sign patent licensing deals with anyone and everyone making an Android product continued Sunday with the latest deal in… Read more »
We now know when new Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook is going to have his first “What would Steve do?” moment. Early accounts of a greatly a… Read more »
Steve Jobs swore to “destroy Android” in his anger over what he saw as outright copying of Apple’s ideas in Android phones unveiled early in… Read more »
Samsung designed the new Galaxy Nexus with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) very much in mind, but not in the same way that has seen it dragged into court… Read more »
Florian Mueller, a German software savant, is invaluable to many in the public and media for his ability to explain the arcane patent battle… Read more »
Inventors, lawyers and scholars are meeting in Silicon Valley at Defense 2.0: New Strategies for Reducing Patent Risk to discuss the wave of… Read more »
Like many other dog parks in the country, the new Stragent Dog Park in Longview, Texas, provides an opportunity for man’s best friend to fro… Read more »
Thursday was probably not the best day that Samsung’s legal team has ever encountered. Fresh off a decision in Australia to ban sales of the… Read more »
The company behind Amazon’s Kindle Fire became the latest licensee of Microsoft’s mobile patents Thursday, when Quanta signed a deal that co… Read more »
Samsung’s legal setback in Australia — where the courts have now issued a formal, if temporary, injunction on its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet af… Read more »
Samsung continues to encounter legal setbacks around the world, with the latest coming Down Under in its battle against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL).… Read more »
A college sophomore sued by a shell company that’s in the business of patent litigation has folded his cards, saying he can’t afford to hold… Read more »
Here’s news of a deal that shows not all the smaller companies chasing down big companies and small developers over patent infringement alle… Read more »
We haven’t heard much lately about the Lodsys case against Apple, Android and RIM developers around the world, who have received letters and… Read more »
Amazon’s new tablet won’t be available until November 15, but it’s never too early to file a patent suit. Smartphone Technologies LLC, which… Read more »
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are trying to aid app developers in an important case that will decide whether the developers are… Read more »
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has declined to comment on reports that it is considering a bid to buy out Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) from its Sony Ericsson han… Read more »
Intellectual Ventures reminded the mobile world Thursday that it too would like to collect an Android tax. The patent-holding company filed… Read more »
Less than 24 hours have passed since the iPhone 4S was introduced by Apple, and Samsung is taking no chances. The company has already announ… Read more »
The startup Kickstarter is suing to stop what it says is a shakedown by a former musician from the band Journey. The musician has obtained a… Read more »
If it sounded like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) might just agree to some kind of deal with Samsung in Australia — which would have let Samsung launch… Read more »
Samsung — which has had to delay the launch of its much-anticipated Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia because of its ongoing patent dispute with… Read more »
In the ongoing legal battle between Samsung and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), neither side has been willing to flinch. But in the courtroom in Sydney,… Read more »
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and the device makers that have entered into patent licensing agreements with it over the Android platform have so fa… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will renew some old acquaintances at the U.S. Department of Justice before its Motorola (NYSE: MMI) deal is allowed to p… Read more »
We may not know how much revenue Google (NSDQ: GOOG) makes from Android, but we can say that at least one other company — a competitor — i… Read more »
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At Google’s Zeitgeist Americas conference, Larry Page spent a good amount of time on stage — maybe one of the longest appearances he has ma… Read more »
