Is Tim Cook signaling a change in IP strategy at Apple?
In what reminds old-timers of the bold move (to create the “baby Bells”) a new CEO at AT&T made decades ago as it fought massively expensive antitrust litigation, Tim Cook appears to have signaled a strategy change at Apple. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments [...]
Bankruptcy judge denies Apple permission to sue Kodak
Judge Allan Gropper, who is presiding over Kodak’s Chapter 11 proceedings in a Manhattan U.S. District Court, refused Apple’s request last week to sue Kodak for alleging that its digital cameras, digital photo frames, and printers infringe on patents owned by Apple. To get out of bankruptcy, Kodak hopes to sell patents for its digital [...]
ITC publishes its twice-delayed decision in Apple vs. HTC
HTC was found guilty of infringing on U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647. In boxing parlance, however, it looks much like (at best) a split decision, and Asian investors think it’s a win for HTC. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post
Apple, denied injunction against Samsung (in the U.S.), girds for ITC decision next week
Last week U.S. District Court judge Lucy Koh rejected Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction to halt sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 and some Samsung Android smartphones in the U.S., stating, among other things, “it is not clear that an injunction on Samsung’s accused devices would prevent Apple from being irreparably harmed.” Bookmark on [...]
What is S3 worth now that key patents have been invalidated?
Litigating Apple notes that on the very same day that an ITC administrative law judge ruled that Apple infringed two of S3′s patents, the USPTO made initial determinations that the relevant claims of the two patents are invalid due to the existence of prior art. Apple can ask the ITC to review the infringement decision in [...]
Another crack appears in the Android IP dam
By Florian Mueller’s count, there are 49 ongoing Android-related infringement lawsuits. The first crack in the dam was found in Google’s Daubert motion to exclude the Oracle expert’s damages report, where Google’s own words could indicate intentional infringement. Now an ALJ from the US International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that HTC infringed two Apple patents [...]
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