The brief analyst call held by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility around the acquisition news (our story here) gave littl… Read more »
A pivotal hearing in the legal dispute between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung in Germany over whether the Galaxy Tab can be sold in Europe w… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has enough of a headache dealing with the painful situation involving Android and the pace at which its partners are bei… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has asked a judge at the International Trade Commission to sanction Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), saying that the company reve… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– BlackBerry/London riots: As Prime Minister David Cameron considers whether social med… Read more »
Samsung and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) were set to square off in a court in the Netherlands on Wednesday, after a German court on Tuesday prevented… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Apple/Amazon: One solution to the change in charging terms that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has m… Read more »
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has scored a major victory in its patent war against Samsung, winning a preliminary injunction in a German court that wil… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) patent cases: The ITC is launching its investigation of Apple’s pa… Read more »
Sometimes it’s not the obvious things that create the biggest problems. In this case one of the hidden job killers in our economy today is… Read more »
Omar Little had it right: there’s a game out there, and you either play or get played. One of the most compelling characters from the televi… Read more »
As far as we can tell, we’re the first to coin this: patacquisition: A company purchased solely for its patent portfolio. See: acqui-hire. T… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) confirmed Thursday that it had been extended an offer to join Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) in trying to purchase patents from… Read more »
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) laughed off Google’s strident attack on its patent foes late Wednesday, claiming that it offered to make a joint bid… Read more »
Lawyers defending Google (NSDQ: GOOG) against a patent and copyright lawsuit brought by Oracle are trying desperately to keep a particular e… Read more »
Certain smartphone companies may want to take note of this one: using patents aggressively can produce pushback from unexpected places. Veri… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) spoke out in uncharacteristically harsh terms Wednesday regarding the mobile patent proxy wars that Chairman Eric Schmid… Read more »
Three makes it a party: Samsung is also considering a bid for Interdigital, the mobile patent-holding company that is being courted by Googl… Read more »
Clearly, plenty of developers are getting fed up with Lodsys, the patent-holding company that’s demanding royalty payments from small mobile… Read more »
The legal battle goes on between HTC and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), but this time HTC is on the offensive and taking matters to another country. Th… Read more »
It’s no secret that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has been in the market to buy some patents for several months now. Now it looks like Google finally… Read more »
Rovi Corp’s moves to make money off its patents related to online TV guides are starting to look like an industry-wide campaign. In January,… Read more »
Every company doing anything interesting in the tech sector these days gets sued for patent infringement-it’s practically a rite of passage.… Read more »
Interdigital is out to prove it’s a serious threat in the mobile patent battles that have consumed this industry. A week after Google (NSDQ:… Read more »
An report that Oracle filed in its giant lawsuit against Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has been thrown out; and the judge overseeing the case has issu… Read more »
Winston Churchill probably would have made a decent patent attorney: when it comes to mobile patent litigation, to jaw-jaw is indeed always… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile this morning: HTC-Apple: The two patent adversaries are supposedly considering settlement talks… Read more »
Last month, Oracle Corp. wants Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to pay as much as $6 billion-yes, that’s billion with a B-because it says Google’s Androi… Read more »
You can almost see the lawyers for Rovio debating whether or not they’d like to use the exploding black bird or the dive-bombing white bird… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) knows it has a mobile patent problem, and addressing that concern could be one of the most important things it does over… Read more »
Apple’s performance in the market continues to be stellar, but its performance in the smartphone patent wars-which it had a hand in starting… Read more »
Google’s Eric Schmidt perfected an air of bemused condescension during his 10 years as CEO, rarely allowing the slings and arrows of lesser… Read more »
With the stakes this high, it’s no surprise that HTC plans to appeal Friday’s ruling by the International Trade Commission that its Android… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– HTC/Apple: Some fallout from the decision at the ITC last week that supported Apple’… Read more »
App developers are withdrawing their products for sale from the US versions of Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market for fear of bei… Read more »
The lawyers in Paul Allen’s new lawsuit find themselves this week exactly where they didn’t want to end up–facing a big delay in their effo… Read more »
Intellectual Ventures, the world’s biggest patent-holding company, has sued a second set of companies, claiming its giant cache of intellect… Read more »
Looks like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will have to dig in its feet for another legal long-haul tug-of-war, with a new team captain to boot. Today HT… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– Apple Patents: Just as Apple is fighting patent battles on multiple fronts, some uphe… Read more »
One hurdle faced by the six tech companies hoping to acquire 6,000 mobile patents from bankrupt Nortel Networks has been cleared, as courts… Read more »
