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Apple Insider   Mar 08 13 :

Judge to allow Apple's 'Siri' suit against Samsung to continue, orders case to be streamlined -

U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh on Friday ruled that an Apple lawsuit against Samsung over Siri patents can continue, despite questioning whether or not the proceedings should be suspended until an appeal related to the Apple v.
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TUAW  Feb 28 13 :

Apple wins one against Samsung in Japanese court -

The lastest round of fighting between Apple and Samsung goes to the Cupertino Kid.
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DotGizmo  Feb 25 13 :

LG Acquires webOS From HP For Use In Smart TVs -

LG has been looking into using webOS on its brand of Smart TVs since this past October, and it looks like the company likes what it saw as it’s announcing it is acquiring the platform to be used in its Smart TVs.
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Electronista  Feb 25 13 :

Apple v. Samsung Australian case moves to two-judge system -

The Australian Apple vs. Samsung lawsuit has switched to a two-judge system as of Monday, says the Australian Financial Review.
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Engadget Mobile  Feb 22 13 :

Via Licensing welcomes China Mobile and Deutsche Telekom to its LTE supergroup -

Via Licensing is amassing quite a deep well of patents from which its members able to pull.
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CrunchGear  Feb 19 13 :

Samsung, LG Display Feud Winding Down As LG Drops Sales Ban Request Against Galaxy Note 10.1 -

The War of the Korean Tech Giants: Battle Display is approaching a detente. LG Display has dropped its request for a domestic sales ban on rival Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.
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TechDirt  Feb 17 13 :

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt -

This week, it should come as no surprise that Tim Cushing's epic post about the OnPress attribution trolling saga yielded our runaway winning comment of the week, taking first place in both the Insightful and Funny categories by a wide margin.
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GottaBeMobile.com  Feb 16 13 :

Carbon: Finally, a Great Android Twitter Client Arrives -

Carbon: Finally, a Great Android Twitter Client Arrives is a post by Kevin Purcell from Gotta Be Mobile.
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Mashable  Feb 14 13 :

Obama: Patent Trolls Hijack Others’ Ideas to ‘Extort Some Money’ -

President Barack Obama pointed his finger at patent trolls, people and businesses who file patents and use them to aggressively sue others who produce potentially competing products, during a Google Hangout Thursday afternoon.
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Engadget  Feb 14 13 :

BlackBerry files patent application for 180-degree hinge, redefines 'flip-phone' -

Before you get too excited, lets remember two things: one, companies file patent applications for things all the time that never see the light of day.
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Electronista  Jan 31 13 :

USITC launches InterDigital cellphone patent investigation -

As expected, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) has announced that it is launching its investigation into InterDigital's patent complaint against mobile phone manufacturers Huawei, Samsung, Nokia, and ZTE.
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iPhone Hacks  Jan 31 13 :

Apple Buys 18 Axis-Based UI Patents From Canadian Firm Maya Systems -

In a press release, Canadian firm Maya Systems has revealed that Apple has purchased 18 of its patents that relate to the firm’s “axis based user interface technology.
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TechCrunch  Jan 29 13 :

Intuit’s New Payments Directions In NFC, Passbook And Facebook Revealed In 20+ New Products -

Yesterday Intuit took a step into social commerce with the acquisition of the team, technology and patents of social payments startup Payvment.
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TechCrunch  Jan 28 13 :

Intuit Acquires Facebook Ecommerce Platform Payvment’s Team, Tech, And Patents While Ecwid Takes Its 200K Merchants -

Earlier today Facebook ecommerce platform Payvment announced it was shutting down and transitioning its 200,000 merchants to competitor Ecwid, but we've just discovered that's because Intuit is acquiring Payvment's team, technology, and patents.
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Boy Genius Report  Jan 24 13 :

ITC will review Apple complaint against Samsung -

The International Trade Commission has announced that it will review a key decision in the patent fight between Samsung (005930) and Apple (AAPL).
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TechCrunch  Jan 18 13 :

Rumor: Dijit And Miso Are Close To Merging, As Social TV Consolidation Continues -

Today, TechCrunch received a tip that San Francisco-based social TV startups Dijit and Miso could be close to combining forces, in what would be the latest round of consolidation in that segment.
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Apple Insider   Jan 18 13 :

Apple says appeals court decisions hinder patent protection efforts against Samsung -

The decision by a United States appeal court to continue allowing Samsung to sell the Galaxy Nexus prevents Apple from protecting the patents a jury previously found the Nexus to be infringing on, Apple's lawyers have argued.
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Stanford Study Claims That IPOs Stifle Startups' Innovation Chops -

If your young, hip 'n' happening tech firm is Superman, then going public is its Kryptonite.
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Apple Insider   Jan 10 13 :

Patents awarded to Apple surge 68% in 2012 -

Apple was granted a total of 1,135 patents in 2012, ranking it 21st among companies worldwide, up from 39th a year prior.
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DotGizmo  Jan 09 13 :

Motorola Withdraws Part Of Its ITC Complaint Against Microsoft -

Some of you guys might recall that early last year, Motorola and Microsoft were still at war against each other with regards to alleged patent infringements.
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