intellectual property

With Licensing Deal, Apple Patent Lawsuit Simply Vanishes Into Thin Air

Ina Fried in Mobile on May 24 at 1:46 pm PT

Avoiding a trial in a lawsuit, Apple has taken a license to patents held by Texas-based SimpleAir. Naturally, all of the interesting terms and details are being kept confidential.

With Motorola Deal Closed, Microsoft Scores Its First Direct Patent Hit on Google

Ina Fried in Mobile on May 24 at 10:35 am PT

A court in Germany ruled that Motorola’s Android products are infringing on a Microsoft patent related to text messaging, but said that the Google unit is not infringing on another of Redmond’s patents.

News Byte

Apple and Samsung Chiefs to Kick Off Settlement Talks Monday

Tricia Duryee in Mobile on May 20 at 5:02 pm PT

Samsung Vice Chairman Gee-Sung Choi and Apple CEO Tim Cook will meet in San Francisco tomorrow to discuss a possible settlement to their intellectual property dispute, Reuters confirmed today. As reported last month, the two companies agreed to go to mediation, but it is difficult to believe that two days of talks will result in a settlement to their legal battles, which span some 50 lawsuits in 10 countries.

Court Bans Import of Some Motorola Phones Found to Infringe on Microsoft Patent

Ina Fried in Mobile on May 18 at 2:44 pm PT

The U.S. International Trade Commission sides with Microsoft in one of several patent disputes between the two companies. Motorola may appeal.

Nvidia, Intellectual Ventures Scoop Up Some Wireless Patents as Land Grab Continues

Ina Fried in Mobile on May 14 at 9:58 am PT

Nathan Myhrvold’s patent firm teamed with the graphics chipmaker to buy approximately 500 wireless patents.

Numbers

Call of Duty: Modern Patent Warfare

Beth Callaghan in Numbers on May 8 at 5:00 pm PT

That is one messy battlefield.

News Byte

Honeywell to Nest: We Won’t Blink First

Lauren Goode in News on May 7 at 1:52 pm PT

Honeywell has fired the latest shots in its patent-infringement lawsuit against Nest, denying Nest’s most recent counterclaims. In a statement, the industrials giant said, “We stand by our claims alleging infringement of the seven patents related to thermostat technology.” Honeywell goes on to call Nest’s counterclaims “self-serving characterizations of the Nest Thermostat” that are “irrelevant to Honeywell’s valid claims of patent infringement,” and accuses Nest of trying to divert attention from the core issues of the suit.

Voices

Understanding the IP Wars

Erin-Michael Gill, Managing Director and Chief Intellectual Property Officer, MDB Capital Group in Voices on April 30 at 10:12 am PT

Today, technology companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter are getting a scary wake-up call on the importance of IP issues.

ITC Gives Motorola Partial Victory in Apple Patent Fight

John Paczkowski in Mobile on April 24 at 10:05 am PT

The U.S. International Trade Commission handed Motorola Mobility a partial victory in its patent battle with Apple today, ruling that the company’s iPhone and iPad do indeed infringe Motorola’s intellectual property.

Voices

Oracle Presses Case With Google Emails

John Letzing, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 24 at 1:27 am PT

The Google Inc. executive in charge of its Android mobile phone software at the heart of the company’s legal dispute with Oracle Corp. was confronted Monday in court by a series of internal emails he wrote years earlier cautioning the search company against an “uncharacteristically” aggressive use of outside intellectual property to develop the technology.

intellectual property

With Licensing Deal, Apple Patent Lawsuit Simply Vanishes Into Thin Air

With Motorola Deal Closed, Microsoft Scores Its First Direct Patent Hit on Google

Apple and Samsung Chiefs to Kick Off Settlement Talks Monday

Court Bans Import of Some Motorola Phones Found to Infringe on Microsoft Patent

Nvidia, Intellectual Ventures Scoop Up Some Wireless Patents as Land Grab Continues

Call of Duty: Modern Patent Warfare

Honeywell to Nest: We Won’t Blink First

Understanding the IP Wars

ITC Gives Motorola Partial Victory in Apple Patent Fight

Oracle Presses Case With Google Emails

Facebook Paying Microsoft $550 Million to Get Its Hands on Hundreds of Former AOL Patents

It’s On: Oracle and Google to Meet in “World Series” of IP Lawsuits

More D10 Speakers: Ellison, Meeker, Myhrvold, Along With Pixar and Visa!

Cisco CEO Sees China’s Huawei as Toughest Rival

Yahoo Patent Suit Makes Waves in Silicon Valley

Déjà Hoo: Yahoo Has Done the Pre-IPO Legal Shakedown Dance Before

Worst But First: Yahoo Uses Words of Facebook’s Zuckerberg to Poke Him in Patent Lawsuit

Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls “Puzzling” (Including Filing)

Google, Motorola Ordered to Give Data to Apple

Apple Sued by Firm in Patent Deal With Microsoft

So It’s the Kodak Strategy for Yahoo — The Last Refuge of the Vaguely Patented

Like I Said: AOL Activist Investor Files Alternate Slate (and AOL Declines to Agree)

Who’s Ready for the (Heaven Forbid) Social Networking Patent Wars?

RealNetworks Sells Video Codec and a Bunch of Patents to Intel for $120 Million

Obama: Don’t Worry Internet, I Got Your Back on That SOPA Thing

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