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Suing Facebook? Best of Luck.

Ronald Barusch, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 25 at 1:44 pm PT

By Wednesday, after just three days of trading, several lawsuits had been filed against Facebook complaining about the adequacy of its prospectus disclosure. However, at least so far, there is no indication that anything is wrong with that prospectus.

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.

So Much for the Big Apple-Samsung Summit

John Paczkowski in News on May 23 at 8:49 am PT

Should have held it on the Napa Valley Wine Train.

Samsung Galaxy S III: Inspired by Nature, Not Lawyers

John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 22 at 8:16 am PT

If lawyers didn’t design the Galaxy S III, then why is it so ugly?

Unpleasant Development for Kodak: ITC Judge Rules Key Patent Invalid

John Paczkowski in News on May 22 at 4:05 am PT

A U.S. International Trade Commission judge has determined that a patent Kodak has asserted against Apple and Research In Motion is invalid.

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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.

Oh, Snap: Kodak Says Apple Is Just Playing Spoiler With Patent Claim

John Paczkowski in News on May 18 at 9:44 am PT

Kodak to Apple: Waaaaaagh!

How Is the Itanium Lawsuit Hurting HP? Let Us Count the Billions of Ways.

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on May 17 at 3:14 pm PT

Yesterday’s document dump by Oracle shines a light on just how profitable the HP’s Itanium business is. Or rather, was.

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Judge Orders Apple and HTC to Talk It Out

John Paczkowski in News on May 17 at 1:43 pm PT

With their patent war raging on, Apple and HTC have been ordered into face-to-face mediation talks to settle their legal differences. Issued by the U.S. District Court of Delaware on Thursday, the order requires counsel and key decision makers from both companies to attend a session on August 28, 2012. It follows by a single day the enforcement of an International Trade Commission import ban on two HTC smartphones won by Apple in December of 2011.