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Fortune: When it comes to the Apple-Samsung patent war, WSJ misses the point -
According to Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog, The Wall Street Journal’s recent report suggesting that the smartphone patent wars have been a big bust for all involved misses the point.More from Boy Genius Report
EU Presses Motorola Mobility Over Patent Licensing -
The EU has become a key market where tech giants are slugging it out over patents.More from All Things Digital
Apple wins right to appeal Wisconsin FRAND dismissal case -
In the ever-more-complicated legal wrangles between Apple and Google (through its subsidiary Motorola), Apple has won the right to proceed with an attempt to appeal a case between Apple and Motorola in which the iPhone maker was suing Motorola for failing to adhere to FRAND guidelines, while Motorola was suing Apple for alleged infringement of standards-essential patents (SEPs) it holds.More from Electronista
Apple Begins Countdown To 50 Billion App Downloads -
Ever since it launched the first iPhone back in 2007, Apple has achieved a number of significant milestones.
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With latest patent setback, Google has seen ‘nothing but heartbreak’ from Motorola merger -
If Google really only did love Motorola for its patents, then it seems the company’s relationship with the iconic mobile phone manufacturer won’t end happily ever after.More from Boy Genius Report
McAfee Patents System To 'Detect And Prevent Illegal Consumption Of Content On The Internet' -
As a post on the French site Numerama reminds us (original in French), the department responsible for implementing the three-strikes plan known as HADOPI was also supposed to provide Internet users with information about technical solutions to reduce infringement.
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German court dismisses Nokia patent claim against HTC, HTC 'delighted' -
In HTC and Nokia's ongoing patent litigation, one patent infringement claim against HTC was dismissed today by the District Court of Mannheim, Germany.
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ITC rules iPhone doesn’t infringe Google’s patents -
The United States International Trade Commission on Monday evening ruled that Apple’s iPhone does not infringe on technology Google gained when it acquired Motorola Mobility in 2011.More from Boy Genius Report
Kevin Lynch said to be heading team of iPod veterans at Apple -
Former Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch -- now Vice President of Technology at Apple -- has gathered together a team comprised mostly of iPod veterans, says French site MacGeneration.More from Electronista
Apple wins German invalidation of Samsung 3G patent -
Germany's Federal Patent Court has ruled in favor of Apple, and invalidated the entirety of the German part of a Samsung patent on a "turbo encoding/decoding device and method for processing frame data according to QoS," says FOSS Patents.More from Electronista
Unified Patents, backed by Google, takes fight to patent trolls -
The organization is looking to bring both small and large technology companies together to stop patent trolls from launching lawsuits and ultimately hurting member companies.More from CNET News
Apple headed to court in China over Siri patent infringement claim -
Apple is scheduled to appear in court in China this July to defend allegations by Zhizhen Technology Co that its Siri software infringes on patents owned by the company.
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Apple Patent Shows Sleek iPhone With Wraparound Display -
A new patent application from Apple hints at an iPhone with a flexible, wraparound display.
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Microsoft Launches Tool to Make It Easy to See All Its Patents -
The patent tracker tool went live just ahead of the April 1 deadline that the software maker had set for itself.More from All Things Digital
Apple claims $85M mistake in vacating damages v. Samsung -
Judge Lucy Koh made a significant mistake in vacating part of the damages from an Apple court victory against Samsung last year, the former party alleges in a filing submitted yesterday.More from Electronista
Samsung Received The Most Mobile Patents In 2012, Now Leads The World Overall -
Samsung lost out big to Apple last year in a mobile patent blowout in the U.S., but it's been slowly building up an arsenal of patents that potentially will keep it from falling into the same situation again.More from MobileCrunch
LG patents RFID-labelled cookbook, attempts to offer more than just another place to spill sauce -
LG is no stranger to mixing together patents and white goods and this time its trying to bridge the gap between recipes and those all-too-often underwhelming results.
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LG Claims Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 May Infringe Its Eye-Tracking Patents -
The Galaxy S 4 was unveiled last week and already Samsung is facing patent infringement accusations. LG believes the S 4 may be infringing its eye-tracking patents which are utilized in such new features as Smart Scroll and Smart Pause.More from Talk Android
LG Claims Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 May Infringe Its Eye-Tracking Patents -
The Galaxy S 4 was unveiled last week and already Samsung is facing patent infringement accusations. LG believes the S 4 may be infringing its eye-tracking patents which are utilized in such new features as Smart Scroll and Smart Pause.More from Talk Android
Amazon Patents Gravity-Based Links, Helps Make The Buying Process Easier -
Isn’t it annoying when you want to click a link, but because of your clumsiness or because the link is positioned badly, you end up clicking something else? This isn’t a big deal since you can always hit the back button, but what if you clicked away from a form page and thus had to fill up the page again, or if a recommended link you wanted is no longer there after you went back? Amazon apparently understands your frustrations and has patented a technology called gravity-based links.
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