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Sony “Xperia Sola” trademark caught at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Even though it broke up with Ericsson, Sony plans to keep using the Xperia brand and has already announced first Sony-only-branded products at the CES – Sony Xperia ion and Sony Xperia S. Now the Japanese company has filed a trademark for “Xperia Sola” at United States Patent and Trademark Office, with that term (patent number 85528680) covering the category of “Mobile phones and accessories”. Unfortunately we don’t have any other details to share at the moment and as far as we can tell, Xperia Sola could be just another … Read more
Dusan Belic
Motorola Mobility files lawsuit against Apple citing patent infringements
Motorola Mobility is suing Apple for infringing on six of its patents. The patents in question are related to wireless antennas, software, messaging, and data management — quite a bit of the entire experience of a smartphone is on the line here. Apple allegedly uses these patents in the iPhone 4S and iCloud. The lawsuit was filed in Florida today and it’s just the latest battle in the larger smartphone patent wars. “Apple’s infringing activities have caused and will continue to cause Motorola Mobility irreparable harm, for which it has … Read more
George Tinari
Infographic: Smartphone patent wars
You’ve probably heard that major smartphone makers are suing each other in an effort to stop certain products reaching the market. HTC and Samsung are sued by Apple, which in turn is sued by Samsung. But that’s not all, with these smartphone wars going beyond the wildest imagination, even involving some smaller companies most of us never heard of before. For instance, “Graphics Properties Holdings” has patents from the now-defunct Silicon Graphics; Gemalto is the world’s largest manufacturer of SIM cards; InterDigital is a 40-year-old company that helped invent many … Read more
Dusan Belic
Nokia sells over 450 patents, some of them deemed essential to GSM, to a patent troll
Sisvel is a company you’ve probably never heard of, and to give you an idea of what they do just read their slogan: “We protect ideas.” Yes folks, they’re a patent troll, which is a defined as a company that buys up patents and then proceeds to bring other companies to court for infringing on said patents. They’ve just announced that they’re acquiring 47 patent families from Nokia, giving them more than 450 new patents that they can add to their arsenal. What’s surprising is that 33 of the patent … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Google calls up IBM yet again to buy some patents, picks up 217 more
Back in July of last year Google bought over 1,000 patents from IBM. Just a few short months later, in September, they picked up another bundle of over 1,000 patents. Now thanks to SEO by the Sea we can report that Google has called IBM yet again to buy some patents, though this time it’s a small bundle of just over 200 that were purchased during the last week of 2011. Said patents cover a wide range of topics, from “Method And Apparatus For Dynamically Modifying Web Page Display For … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Microsoft gets a patent for making sure you skip the shady parts of town
Everyone who lives in an urban concrete jungle knows that there are some parts of town you simply avoid walking through at all costs. Whether said area is filled with homeless people, drug users, or is a hotbed for criminal activity, every city, regardless of how nice it is, has some issues. Microsoft’s just been issued a patent for navigating you around those troubled areas should you happen to be traveling by foot. According to GeekWire the patent also covers learning from the routes you typically take and can set … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Apple successfully bans select HTC devices in the US – Effective April 2012
Well, what do we have here? It looks like Apple has successfully banned the import of select HTC devices in the US, effective April 19th, 2012. The decision has been delayed twice at this point, and today the International Trade Commission has sided with Apple. The HTC devices that are to be banned are only those that are said to violate two patents owned by Apple for ” data tapping.” It seems that HTC saw this coming, as it recently made a statement in the response to the ruling. Apparently … Read more
Blake Stimac
Google is being sued once again over Android by British Telecom
Another day, another lawsuit filed over Android. British Telecommunications is suing Google over its popular mobile operating system, which seems to be the trend nowadays. Whether or not the newly acquired Motorola Mobility will be able to aid Google in the lawsuit with its patent portfolio is still in question, but it does come at a not so good time for the search giant, which translates to a pretty good time for British Telecom. Here is a quick run down of the patents in question: U.S. Patent No. 6,151,309 on a … Read more
Blake Stimac
Motorola wins 3G patent case against Apple in Germany
It looks like Motorola’s preliminary injunction against iPhone and iPad products in Germany has translated to a full-blown win. While the specific damages have yet to be dallied, it’s safe to assume that since the patent is an integral part of the GPRS standard, and the case win relates to all 3G Apple products released before the iPhone 4S, it could be a doozy. Of course, Apple is still in a position to make an appeal, so the fight’s not over quite yet. If Motorola wants to start enforcing their … Read more
Simon Sage
Judge could place ban on HTC phones in the U.S. starting next week
After extensive coverage of Samsung‘s war with Apple overseas, there’s a bit of a twist today: the legal battles don’t always involve Samsung and they aren’t taking place overseas. Welcome back to the legal battles between HTC and Apple. On December 14th, the smartphone manufacturer may face a giant ban against U.S. imports. If so, it would be a devastating blow to the company. The patents currently being argued over mostly relate to software. The first is for a “system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated … Read more
George Tinari
Google successfully patents Android unlock pattern and other new gestures
Google has been granted patents today for the unique way one can unlock their Android phone and judging by the patents, Google is looking to take the functionality a few steps further. When you are preparing to unlock your device, a screen comes up with nine dots that form to make a grid. Connecting the dots and drawing a pattern — which you can customize in the Settings — then unlocks the phone and brings you to the home screen. If you’re familiar with HTC’s Sense UI, you know that … Read more