Apple Inc. was ordered by a judge to publish a notice on its U.K. website and in British newspapers alerting people to a ruling that Samsung Electronics Co. didn’t copy designs for the iPad. The notice should outline the July 9 London court decision that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets don’t infringe Apple’s registered designs, Judge Colin Birss said.
A U.S. judge rejected several requests by Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd to keep portions of key documents out of public view in their high-stakes patent litigation battle set for trial later this month. Apple and Samsung, the world's largest consumer electronics corporations, are waging legal war in several countries, accusing each other of patent violations as they vie for supremacy in a fast-growing market for mobile devices.
A German court has dismissed an Apple lawsuit seeking to ban the sale of Motorola's Xoom tablet computer throughout the European Union. In its case, Apple Inc claimed the Motorola product infringed its intellectual property because its design was too similar to the iPad.
Google unit Motorola Mobility said it has taken steps to avert an interruption of U.S. imports and sales of its smartphones after the devices were found to infringe on a Microsoft patent. The importation to the United States of some Motorola Mobility smartphones was supposed to stop as the result of an International Trade Commission ruling that the phones infringed on technology that makes it possible for consumers to use the devices to generate meeting requests and schedule gatherings.
Google has submitted a revised package of concessions to address the concerns of Europe’s top competition authority, bringing the talks to settle the EU antitrust investigation to a critical juncture. Joaquin Almunia, the EU’s competition commissioner, recently spoke to Eric Schmidt, the Google chairman, and requested the US group clarify some elements of its informal offer submitted two weeks ago.
EU antitrust regulators have opened an investigation into whether Microsoft is complying with a 2009 ruling ordering it to offer users a choice of web browsers, the European Union's antitrust chief said.
A federal judge dismissed the final legal claims by a Utah company that sued Microsoft Corp. for $1 billion over the WordPerfect writing program. U.S. District Judge Frederick Motz ruled that Novell has no viable claims left after losing an eight-week trial against Microsoft in Salt Lake City last year.
Republican governors, eager for new revenue to ease budget strains, are dropping their longtime opposition to imposing sales taxes on online purchases, a significant political shift that could soon bring an end to tax-free sales on the Internet. Conservative governors, joining their Democratic counterparts, have been making deals with online retail giant Amazon.com to collect state sales taxes.
The European Union’s antitrust chief said he’d rather settle an antitrust probe over claims Google Inc. discriminates against rivals than pursue an enforcement action against the world’s largest Web-search engine. “In these fast-moving markets with new activities, new products and new services, I prefer to find remedies as soon as possible and this is easier,” EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in an interview, referring to a settlement.
Japan's Fujifilm has sued Google's Motorola Mobility, claiming that several of its cell phones and tablets infringe on four of its patents related to digital camera and photography technology. Fujifilm, which filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, said its filing came after attempts to negotiate a licensing deal with Motorola failed.
A northern California jury directed Research in Motion Ltd to pay $147.2 million in patent litigation over a remote management system for wireless devices, according to an attorney for the plaintiff, Mformation Technologies Inc. Amar Thakur, an attorney for Mformation, said the jury directed RIM to pay an $8 royalty for every BlackBerry device connected to RIM's enterprise server software, which brings the total award to $147.2 million.
The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into ZTE Corp's sale of banned U.S. computer equipment to Iran, a website reported, as the Chinese telecoms gear maker warned its first half net profit could fall as much as 80 percent. The federal investigations stem from a Reuters report in March that Shenzhen-based ZTE sold Iran's largest telecoms firm a powerful surveillance system capable of monitoring landline, mobile and Internet communications, the Smoking Gun website reported.
Phandroid has revealed that its Android Forums website was hacked using a known exploit. The data that was accessed includes usernames, e-mail addresses, hashed passwords, registration IP addresses, and other less-critical forum-related information. At the time of writing, the forum listed 1,034,235 members.
Aereo Inc., the online television service backed by Barry Diller, will expand from New York to other large U.S. cities following a favorable court ruling, the 70-year-old billionaire said. “We’re going to really start marketing,” Diller said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Sun Valley, Idaho, where he was attending the Allen & Co. annual retreat.cop
A Web site started by an enterprising 24-year-old college student from northern England that helped visitors find American movies and television shows online has created a fierce battle between two of America’s great exports: Hollywood and the Internet. Although the site did not serve up pirated content, American authorities say it provided links to sites that did. The Obama administration is seeking to extradite Richard O’Dwyer from Britain on criminal charges of copyright infringement. The possible punishment: 10 years in a United States prison.
Iran's booming Apple business underscores the limitations of economic sanctions by the United States and other countries. Although U.S. consumer products and computer equipment are banned, enterprising Iranian merchants continue to source them through underground trade routes in the Middle East and beyond.
Grooveshark’s parent company, Escape Media Group, won a glimmer of hope with a court decision that undercut one of the Universal Music Group’s two copyright infringement cases against it, and also opened the door for it to countersue the label for what could be millions of dollars in damages. But even if Grooveshark wins that case, it faces another, bigger infringement suit, as well as another claim in a dispute over publishing royalties — and questions about whether it can hold on to those licenses it has managed to get.
A New York man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement in plot to distribute movies on the Internet before they became available on DVD. Fifty-three-year-old Gregory Cherwonik of Canandaigua, N.Y., entered the plea in federal court in Alexandria.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has seized 70 websites accused of selling products that infringe copyright, bringing the number of websites seized by ICE in the last two years to 839. The websites recently seized sold jewelry, baby carriers, headphones, sports jerseys, language-learning software and other items, according to pictures of the websites posted on ICE's website.
Twitter's plan in April designed to curb patent confrontations, which limits how companies could use patents against rivals, might change now that Microsoft said it would buy Yammer. Patent experts said it’s unlikely the software giant will handicap its new toy with the restrictive patent rules.
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