Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: some more possible leaks on the iPhone 5, and a possible Sony (NYSE: SNE) Honeycomb tab… Read more »
RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has followed fellow handset makers HTC and Samsung into the arms of Intellectual Property Ventures, signing a deal with the… Read more »
The UK’s Court of Appeal has upheld a decision that strips TV EPG maker Gemstar, now part of Rovi, of three patents. Read more »
It will come as no surprise to hear that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) did not agree with the U.S. International Trade Commission’s ruling last Friday t… Read more »
The International Trade Commission ruled on two patent cases involving Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and other mobile companies Friday, and Apple went… Read more »
In a move by the Nielsen Company that could spark a more drawn-out legal battle, the ratings company has accused rival comScore (NSDQ: SCOR)… Read more »
At some point, you’d think Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will just have to sue Google (NSDQ: GOOG) directly. But its proxy campaign against Android… Read more »
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) garnered a huge coalition of corporations to support its Supreme Court patent battle with i4i, hoping that its case c… Read more »
Amazon’s patent on its “one-click” checkout system first made headlines over a decade ago, and became a notorious “Exhibit A” for those who… Read more »
“Instant” is the new thing in search. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) introduced search results that automatically update as a user types in September,… Read more »
Congress has been working on various versions of patent reform bills since 2005, but the U.S. Senate has finally passed a patent reform bill… Read more »
One thing practically every company involved in patent litigation can agree on is that it’s brutally expensive. The average cost to take a c… Read more »
It takes a lot to get Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to cooperate on anything these days. The two companies seem ready to sp… Read more »
Last month, MPEG-LA, the group that collects patent royalties for the most popular digital video formats, started asking around for patents… Read more »
Spring Design, which manufactures the Alex Reader, sued Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) back in 2009, saying the book seller had taken many of th… Read more »
TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) has been fighting over its patents on DVR technology since 2004, but the campaign to get paid for those patents is getting… Read more »
What’s Apple’s social networking strategy for the iPhone? The company has not said much about this so far, but one clue might be in the trad… Read more »
We’ve seen lots of build-up to the debut of Motorola’s Xoom tablet today, but — wouldn’t you know it — there’s always someone there to spo… Read more »
One more advance on the lawsuit that Huawei has brought against Motorola (NYSE: MOT) in the latter company’s attempt to sell its networks bu… Read more »
– Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Mobile: Russell Buckley (pictured) is leaving Google’s mobile advertising unit AdMob, about a year after the company… Read more »
Will the future of web video be free or come with a patent-licensing bill? The question has no clear answer at this point– which is why a f… Read more »
Even as sales of its pioneering digital video recorder have continued to decline, TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) has been using its patents to try to get… Read more »
On Monday evening, a judge in the U.S. District Court For Northern Illinois handed Huawei an initial victory in its fight to halt the sale o… Read more »
Back in November, a little-known Virginia company named Pragmatus AV sued Facebook, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), LinkedIn, and Photobucket over pat… Read more »
The mobile lawsuits keep on coming. But this latest fight does not have to do with mobile handsets, or with patented technology being used w… Read more »
– Oracle v. Google: Android device makers LG (SEO: 066570), Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Samsung could be feeling some legal heat soon. They ha… Read more »
A new lawsuit against Twitter underscores an emerging trend in patent litigation: patent lawyers suing over their own “inventions.” Often, t… Read more »
Makers of smartphones and the chips that power them are grabbing patents faster than ever. That suggests that a few major participants in th… Read more »
Google’s decision earlier this week to ditch support for the dominant web video codec, H.264, in its Chrome browser unleashed a fair bit of… Read more »
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has been working really hard at breaking into the smartphone apps race that’s dominated by Google’s Android and Apple… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has essentially declared war against the web’s dominant video format, announcing in a blog post today that Chrome will p… Read more »
An appeals court ruling this week in Uniloc v. Microsoft means that patent holders who win in court will get smaller damage payouts. The rul… Read more »
Qualcomm has bought the WiFi and Bluetooth chipmaker Atheros for $45 per share, or about $3.1 billion. This would the wireless chipmaker’s b… Read more »
Rovi Corp. appears to be making a play to get some leverage in the electronic TV guide market. The company has filed its second patent lawsu… Read more »
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) co-founder Paul Allen has refiled his patent lawsuit against 11 big internet companies and e-retailers, and the new c… Read more »
A subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent is broadening its campaign to get royalty payments from companies in the digital video business. Multimedia P… Read more »
Plenty of internet companies choose to avoid patent battles, as the drawn-out lawsuits and counter-suits can quickly devolve into what some… Read more »
Eastman Kodak hasn’t been shy about using its patents to wring some licensing money out of the smartphone industry, but the company recently… Read more »
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is stepping up the patent fight against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), with this round being played out on its home turf, Europe. The… Read more »
– Apple/Google/Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Nortel: This one is still a work in progress… Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Nokia are… Read more »
