Imagine futuristic laptops even thinner and lighter than the MacBook Air, capable of running for several days or even weeks without recharging–Apple certainly is, as a couple U.S. patents published yesterday reveal.
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HTC Android Phones Will Get a Bit Worse After Apple Patent Win
Apple just won a patent case against HTC in the United States, and as a result, HTC’s Android phones–and possibly all Android phones–could get a tiny bit harder to use.
The patent deals with how Android phones scan text for …
Judge Denies Apple Request for U.S. Ban on Samsung Devices
Samsung has just won one crucial victory in its legal battle with Apple. It’ll get to keep its products on retailers’ shelves this Christmas. On Friday, a judge denied Apple an injunction that would have allowed the electronics …
Is Microsoft Bullying Device Manufacturers with Patent Claims?
Microsoft has declared a quiet war against Android, using patents to try and drive competitors out of business – or at least, out of competition. That’s the claim being made by Barnes & Noble, which is asking U.S. regulators to …
Samsung to Apple: Hand Over iPhone 4S Source Code
From one spat to the next, the latest footnote to the chapter in the book that’s part of an ongoing legal series of thrust and counters involves Samsung demanding that Apple pony up the source code for its just-released iPhone 4S. Make this salvo number “I’ve lost count,” following Apple putting the kibosh on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 …
Apple-Samsung Patent Battle: Apple’s Totally Winning
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Samsung’s not getting much love from the courts as it tries to defend against Apple’s patent infringement claims.
In the United States, District Judge Lucy Koh repeatedly mentioned the visual similarities …
Amazon Sued over Kindle Fire Already
It’s still more than a month away from release, but the Amazon Kindle Fire is already drawing the wrong kind of attention from a company called Smartphone Technologies. Namely, the kind of attention that involves touchscreens and a patent infringement lawsuit.
Smartphone Technologies has made a name for itself by suing Apple, Research …
Kickstarter in Legal Battle with Former ‘Journey’ Musician (No, Really)
Kickstarter has made a name for itself by giving all manner of artists a chance to afford to fulfill their ambitions through the wonders of crowdsourcing, but now the start-up is facing an unexpected legal battle over whether or not it can do so without infringing on a patent owned by a former member of Journey and Phish, of all …
Patent Troll Sues Businesses that Offer Wi-Fi; Individuals Safe for Now
A patent troll who could potentially sue any Wi-Fi user is broadening its attack to include hotels, but is leaving individual users alone for now.
The firm, Chicago-based Innovatio IP Ventures, has already sued department stores, restaurants and coffee shop chains for offering Wi-Fi to their customers. The next wave of lawsuits …
Samsung Reportedly Trying to Block iPhone 5 Sales in Korea
Samsung’s banking on home-field advantage to get the iPhone 5 banned in Korea, even as Apple gains the upper hand in smaller patent battles overseas.
Samsung executives told Korea Times that it will seek a sales ban against the iPhone 5 once it launches in Korea. “For as long as Apple does not drop mobile telecommunications functions, …
Google Snatches Over 1,000 IBM Patents
Watch out, IBM, it looks like Google’s just snapped up 1,000 patents belonging to you, which almost sounds dramatic, except for the part where IBM let them.
Make that 1,023 patents in all, which Bloomberg reports were acquired from IBM on August 17. The move is thought to be part of Google’s recent strategy to stockpile patents …
Patents, Anyone? Gadget Makers Continue to Square Off in Court
Whatever your stance on the current state of patent law—it’s essential to protecting intellectual property, it’s detrimental to innovation, or something in between—the fact is that there’s a whole lot of patent-related activity happening in the tech sector right now, much of it to do with mobile devices.
Google’s …
