Microsoft’s previous shuffling of logistics center workers out of country to the Netherlands because of the ongoing patent lawsuit with Motorola got a little more concrete today. The court overseeing the patent battle has ruled in Motorola’s favor, saying that Microsoft infringes on Motorola’s IP, specifically one patent relating to the h.264 codec. While Motorola can’t begin enforcing the ruling yet due to their own anti-trust investigation(s), it...
Remember that Nest vs. Honeywell lawsuit that reared it’s head back in early February? Honeywell came in pretty hot and heavy with a fist full of patents and claims that Nest was a careless and spiteful offender of said patents. Nest, meanwhile, has remained pretty quiet on the matter. Until today. The company unleashed a legal tongue lashing with plenty of zingers thrown in calling Honeywell’s patents “hopelessly invalid”, claiming Honeywell’s...
The long-running battle between once popular P2P file sharing service Limewire and various music labels is finally over. Just one short week after the end of the official trial, the second trial to determine damages has ended with a settlement of $105 million USD reached. While said amount may sound like a lot of money (because it is), it pales in comparison to the $150,000/song major music labels had voiced before, totaling trillions in damages. Thankfully common sense...
In an unsurprising move, Samsung has publicly come forward regarding Apple’s allegations of blatant IP infringement and copying of iOS and the iPhone design, and stating that they would pursue all legal options in protecting their own intelectual property. In short: Samsung is going to counter-sue Apple for copying them. Seeing as how Samsung is spread through many different layers of hardware and software manufacturing/development, they certainly have a good...
By now you’ve likely seen at least seventy dozen different articles about Apple suing Samsung because of the apparent similarities between Apple’s iDevices and Samsung’s latest round of smartphones and tablets. While lawsuits in the tech world are many times warranted for blatant infringement, this one seems rather (pardon our pun) fruitless. Smartphones over the last couple of years (and foreseeable future) all look the same. They’re a smooth,...
