Apple Inc. has won a close battle against Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp. in their battle for smartphone patents after the United States International Trade Commission (US ITC) found that HTC has infringed one of the patents of Apple. The ITC ruled that HTC violated an Apple patent for a “system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer...
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British Telecom (BT) has filed a lawsuit against search engine giant Google, alleging that its Android mobile operating system and its other services violate the telecommunications company’s patents. BT, who filed the lawsuit in Delaware in the United States, said that Google’s Android infringed six of its key patents, including Google Music, location-based...
Motorola Mobility was granted an injunction by a German court against Apple Inc., but the court’s ruling does not mean the end of Apple products in the country. According to a statement provided by Apple, the ruling does not change anything about the company’s status in the country. It is only a procedural issue and does not affect the company’s ability...
On Wednesday, Samsung Electronics Co. has announced its plans to file preliminary injunction motions in Milan, Italy and Paris, France, to stop the sale of Apple’s new iPhone 4S. The move further escalates the dispute between two of the world’s biggest smartphone makers. Samsung will seek the iPhone’s ban on the countries, citing patent infringements...
Micro blogging site Twitter is suing Twittad, an advertising company, over the term ‘tweet.’ The company is pursuing this even though Twittad originally coined the term. Back in 2009, Twitter has made a big deal about developers using the word ‘tweet’ in their apps. While the company has been trying to register ‘tweet’ as a trademark...
A man from Northern Ireland has sued social network company Facebook after his 12-year-old daughter posted lewd photos of herself to the site. According to the BBC, the lawsuit called into question if the company does enough or has the capability to verify its users’ age. Facebook bars any person under 13 years old to join the service. “My own personal view...
The San Mateo district attorney’s office has decided not to press charges against tech website Gizmodo and its former editor Jason Chen for their part in a case involving a misplaced Apple iPhone 4 prototype. The district attorney’s office said that two men have been charged with misdemeanors. Two other men, 28-year-old Safe Wallower of Emeryville and 22-year-old...
Apple may have lost its first attempt to keep Amazon from using the term “App Store” to refer to its online store for mobile applications, but that has not slowed the company down. In the latest bullying incident made by Apple Inc., GetJar, an independent site for free mobile apps, was issued a cease and desist letter from Apple’s attorneys over the use...
Apple was hit with a $8 million fine after a federal jury in Eastern Texas ruled that the company violated two patents. Patent holding company Personal Audio claimed that Apple violated patents related to jumping forward and backward in playlists and navigating music playlists. Personal Audio, a patent licensing company, filed the case against Apple in 2009, with them...
A US judge denied Apple’s attempt to stop retailer Amazon.com from using the term “App Store” for its third-party outlet for Android apps. The name is questioned when Apple Inc. filed a suit against the online retail site because it has trademarked the name “App Store,” Apple spokesperson Kristin Huguet said that Apple has asked Amazon to...
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