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Just when I thought that Motorola shareholders would be happy with its sale to Google for $12.5 billion, it turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong. In fact, shareholders were hoping that the sale price would be so much higher that they decided to sue Motorola Mobility for the insult. I guess selling itself…
Last month the big news in the patent space was the $4.5 billion winning bid for Nortel’s portfolio of 6,000 patents. This week it was obviously Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, which includes their portfolio of 17,000 patents and 7,500 additional patents that are waiting to be approved, that showed us yet…
Apple faced a bit of legal controversy and some parody over the location-tracking capabilities in iOS but it appeared to pretty much blow over. Until now. Thousands of South Koreans are suing Apple in a class-action lawsuit and said that the iOS location-tracking is a violation of their privacy. The Los Angeles Times reports that…
We’re living in litigious times in the tech world: Apple is suing Samsung, Samsung is suing right back, and HTC and Apple are going back and forth, too. Let’s not forget everyone else thrown into the mix, or those looking to get into the fight, but it’d just cause our heads to spin. This time…
Victory for Samsung! The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, which Apple has accused of being a copy of its iPad tablet, can now go on sale in Europe except in Germany. The two companies have been suing each other for patents and design over the past few months, and it seemed like Apple was gaining the…
AT&T has filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court to stop the law firm that is attempting to block the merger with T-Mobile. The firm Bursor & Fisher has filed arbitration cases on behalf of AT&T customers against the carrier, hoping to stop its acquisition of T-Mobile. However, it is in AT&T’s Terms of Service…
Apple was recently successful in blocking the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet in Europe, and it looks like it may seek an injunction against Motorola for its Xoom tablet as well. Google, maker of the Android mobile platform, has openly accused Apple of going after Android hardware makers because the iPhone…
Apple and Samsung have been in the heat of an intense legal battle across several countries, but it looks like Apple has taken the upper hand. We recently heard that Samsung had decided not to sell its Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet in Australia due to the legal issues with Apple. This time around, the…
Apple is continuing its battle against HTC, and this time the International Trade Commission, or the ITC, is reviewing five patent complaints from the iPhone maker. According to Reuters, Apple is claiming that HTC “HTC infringed five patents related to software architecture and user interfaces in portable electronic devices, hardware for touch screens and movement…
It seems like we can’t go a week without hearing about some company suing over Android patents and it appears like Google has had enough. In a strongly-worded blog post, Google is calling these lawsuits an attack and it laid out its plan to counter this. Android has gone from nothing to roughly 50 percent…