Apple says Samsung's new flagship smartphone “is an infringing device” Apple will move to have the Galaxy S4 added to its patent infringement case against Samsung, court documents reveal. In documents filed with the U.S. District Court in California and published by The Verge, . . . → Read More: Apple looks to add Samsung Galaxy S4 to patent infringement suit
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It was almost a year ago to the day that the European Commission began investigating Motorola over reported abuse of its standard-essential patents (SEPs), and now the regulators have a little more to say on the matter. The Commission has issued Motorola Mobility a Statement of Objections, which doesn’t mean any judgment has been reached, but lets the company know its preliminary view, and it ain’t good news . . . → Read More: EC says Motorola broke antitrust rules, abused its patent position . . . → Read More: HTC in yet more bother with the One Microsoft has insisted that companies building products based on Android and Chrome are treading on ground covered by its patent portfolio for years now , and is continuing to press that claim. Today it’s come to licensing terms with another one of them — Foxconn parent Hon Hai . Well known for making Apple products, between its many subsidiaries, the massive company manufactures more than 40 percent of consumer electronics devices in the world. . . . → Read More: Foxconn parent Hon Hai licenses Microsoft’s patents for Android, Chrome devices While HTC is certainly willing to accommodate multiple screen sizes and form factors with its phones, we suspect that some of its explorations won’t go beyond the lab. If you’d like an example, see the company’s newly obtained patent for a dual-screen slider design. . . . → Read More: HTC patents a dual-screen slider phone that you likely won’t see Apparently Nokia’s interested in Microsoft’s tablet cover slash keyboard market , filing a patent application today with the US Patent and Trade Organization for an “apparatus cover with keyboard.” The description is what gives us that distinctly Surface feeling, which calls the “apparatus” a “cover” with two sections, one of which “has a keyboard thereon.” Said cover is “pivotally connected” to a “display” (read: tablet device). The concept is a bit different visually — at least in drawings, as seen above — than where your brain may be going. It seems to be more of a stand device than just a cover, and it apparently includes a stylus as well. . . . → Read More: Nokia patent application outs Surface-esque ‘apparatus cover with keyboard’ You can’t normally read about IP and the mobile industry without coming across two endlessly warring tech companies — especially when Apple is involved . . . . → Read More: Apple reaches smartphone patent licensing deal, agrees to pay Japanese company $10 million for rights Patent filings, we don’t take so seriously. One of Japan’s richest men, with the potential to call on an army of lawyers to defend what he claims is his invention, we probably ought to . . . → Read More: Japanese mobile boss claims he’s already patented the tech inside Google Glass Could Google use your location data to make you a better photographer? . . . → Read More: Google applies for patent to tie weather and location data to camera settings Google has taken to its Open Source Blog today to announce that it is creating a new pledge to never use its patents related to open-source software unless attacked first. . . . → Read More: Google pledges to only use open-source related patents defensively |
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