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In April of 2011, Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit claiming patent infringement against the Korean electronics company Samsung. Since then the Apple vs. Samsung patent war has spawned months and encompassed around 50 hours of testimony, which cost both high tech companies millions in court fees, expert opinions, and corporate lawyers. Each side has been…
Judge Lucy Koh overseeing the Apple and Samsung trial is beginning to get a bit irritable with the two companies in this trial. Apple’s attorneys got an ear-full from her today. After presenting the judge with a 75-page briefing including 22 possible witnesses Apple considered calling to the stand once Samsung’s presentation finished, she asked…
Judge Lucy Koh presiding over the patent trial between Apple and Samsung warned the two companies that now is their last chance to make peace with one another. She foresees that the jury’s verdict will cause both of them to make some sacrifices. “I see risk here for both sides if we go to a…
Google has been ordered by the FTC to pay $22.5 million for violation of a previous agreement that the company would not “misrepresent the extent to which consumers can exercise control over the collection of their information.” In 2011 and part of 2012, Google was found to have placed advertising tracking cookies on phones and…
The battle between Apple and Samsung is still ongoing and it doesn’t look like the fighting will end any time soon. It’s beginning to resemble a 4th grade fight on the playground over who cheated playing four square. Originally Apple was winning the legal war hands down, able to swiftly convince judges Samsung was copying…
Earlier this week, Samsung removed the local search function from the international version of the S III handset and then later confirmed that this removal was a mistake. On Friday, the manufacturer issued another update that restored this functionality and brought some stability improvements to the handset. The update is 5MB and is available over-the-air…
Just when you thought Apple suing Samsung over this whole Galaxy Tab thing was over, think again. The mega tech company has gotten the German court to extend the ban on the 7.7-inch Galaxy Tab from being sold across the entire European Union. This news comes after the EU’s ruling that allowed Samsung to continue…
Apple trying to get the Samsung Galaxy Nexus banned has been the talk around the Internet for the past few weeks, with the latest news being how Samsung managed to get the ban temporarily lifted over the weekend. Now Sprint, the third largest wireless provider in the United States, has decided to back Sammy in…
Samsung’s luck is finally starting to turn around. It won a case in the UK when a judge ruled in its favor saying the Galaxy Tab 10.1 doesn’t copy design aspects of Apple’s iPad. The judge had some interesting things to say about Samsung’s tablet however. Judge Colin Birss said it’s not likely consumers will…
Welcome to another episode of “As the Patents Continue,” where Samsung remains in an ongoing battle with everyone’s favorite tech company, Apple. The richest company in the world has been obsessed with burying all things Android, focusing its rage mainly on Samsung, which the company believes is a copycat. Let’s backtrack for a second. Not…