German court says ‘swipe-to-unlock’ not sophisticated enough to be awarded patent protection
Germany’s top civil court today has ruled against Apple in a case pertaining to the company’s swipe-to-unlock input method. Judges…
Germany’s top civil court today has ruled against Apple in a case pertaining to the company’s swipe-to-unlock input method. Judges…
Apple has finally managed to secure a sales ban over some Samsung phone features that infringe on its patents and intellectual…
Based on the most recent verdict in Apple v. Samsung, Apple is attempting to seek a permanent injunction against any…
As if we needed someone to tell us that the ongoing patent lawsuits between Apple and Motorola in Germany were…
Yesterday, law firm Hagens Berman filed a lawsuit in a California U.S. District Court against Apple Inc. related to “gesture…
Perhaps in what might be read as a wake-up call for Apple, the Cupertino, Calif., gadget powerhouse was just served…
UPDATE [Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 7:25am ET]: A Samsung spokesperson chimed in, providing us with the official statement, included…
Apple informed customers in Germany that push email on both MobileMe and iCloud services were disabled due to the company’s…
The embattled monitor maker Proview, fighting Apple over rights to the iPad name in China, suffered a blow as the…
Chinese vendor Proview apparently owns rights to the iPad trademark in China, and it has two billion reasons not to…
The iPad maker is defending its moniker by insisting the device became synonymous with both the company name and the…
Steve Jobs famously declared back in 2010 that Android was a stolen product, and he was willing to “go thermonuclear…
With the launch of Mavericks imminent, a handful of major websites have begun supporting the Safari Push Notification feature. These…
European Union regulators today announced the launch of a formal investigation of Samsung over mobile patents to determine whether the South Korean…
Newsweek‘s Dan Lyons reported today that Apple’s “thermonuclear war” on Android smartphone manufacturers is fading fast, while a new rumor…
Following Motorola winning a possible injunction against Apple mobile products in Germany, Apple has told a German court it is set…
In Australia, as part of discovery, Samsung got access to Apple’s Qualcomm baseband source code for the iPhone 4S (lookout…
Apple, today, has filed a lawsuit against Motorola over their use of Qualcomm technology, as reported by Reuters. Apple explains…
Update: 8PM ET: Apple has updated the store and all 3G devices are again available. Just this morning Apple was…
Florian Mueller isn’t a patent attorney but he plays one on his blog FOSSPatents. For better or worse, he’s often quoted in…
Today is a bad day for Apple’s legal sharks. First Motorola Mobility scores a ruling in Germany which has paved…
A new twist in the Apple vs. Samsung legal proceedings spanning more than two dozen lawsuits across continents as the Federal…
Reuters reports that Samsung is currently in preliminary discussions with EU regulators regarding a possible settlement related to charges that it…
We are here on the scene at Tim Cook’s interview at AllThingsD‘s D11 Conference in Palas Verdes, California. The proceedings…