IPNews® – The United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal ruled that a lower court judge was right to find Samsung Electronics Co. did not infringe Apple Inc.’s designs when producing its own tablet computers.
The lower court issued its finding of no infringement in July, and ordered Apple to publish advertisements stating that Samsung had not
IPNews® – The U.S. International Trade Commission has voted to investigate whether Apple Inc.’s importation of certain iPhone, iPad and Mac computer products violates VirnetX Inc.’s patent rights for devices with secure communications applications, the ITC said Tuesday.
VirnetX asked the ITC in September to institute an investigation into Apple’s allegedly infringing imports and ultimately
IPNews® – Apple Inc. won patent protection on Tuesday for a number of inventions including a system of detecting whether an electronic device’s user is authorized to be handling the device or not.
The system can compare photos of users’ faces, voices or heartbeats to determine who is using it and take various security measures
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit on Thursday struck down a California federal judge’s U.S. sales ban on Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone in Apple Inc.’s massive patent infringement case over the iPhone and iPad.
Judge Lucy Koh abused her discretion in finding Apple would suffer irreparable harm in the absence of the injunction, the
IPNews® – Apple Inc. is trying to obtain patent protection for a listening device like a set of headphones that could immediately and automatically switch from being plugged into a media player to operating wirelessly, according to an application the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published Thursday.
The patent application, filed in March 2011, discloses
IPNews® – Samsung Electronics Co. demanded a new trial on Tuesday in the patent infringement case that resulted in a $1 billion jury verdict in Apple Inc.’s favor in August, claiming the jury foreman lied to the court during jury selection and engaged in misconduct during deliberations.
Jury foreman Velvin Hogan failed to disclose to
IPNews® – Motorola Mobility LLC this week elected not to proceed with its Section 337 allegations in the U.S. International Trade Commission that Apple Inc. is importing Mac computers, iPads and iPhones into the U.S. that infringe the Google Inc. subsidiary’s patents.
The company also decided to dismiss a related case in Delaware federal court.
IPNews® – Samsung Electronics Co. asked a California federal judge Monday to allow it to accuse Apple Inc.’s newly introduced iPhone 5 of infringing its patents in addition to the other Apple devices listed in its counterclaims to Apple’s infringement lawsuit.
Samsung submitted its original claims in June, several months before the iPhone 5’s rollout.
IPNews® – Apple Inc. is seeking patent protection for its Siri voice assistant feature on the iPhone, according to a patent application the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published Thursday.
The application continuation, originally filed in June and titled “Intelligent automated assistant,” covers a system with which a user can engage in natural, conversational dialogue
IPNews® – Apple Inc. asked a California federal judge Friday to tack on $707 million in enhanced and supplemental damages and interest on top of the $1 billion a jury recently awarded the company in its iPhone and iPad patent infringement war with Samsung Electronics Co.
Samsung made a calculated business decision to copy Apple’s