Hammered by patent litigation, Motorola has removed some devices from its German online store so that it can "rework" them.
Patent litigation victories are few and far between for Motorola, but German courts ruled in the company's favor today.
Undeterred by its recent losses in California, Samsung has won the latest legal battle against Apple.
While Apple may have defeated Samsung in the patent wars, HTC says it's not afraid to fight back.
In an effort to prevent future patent litigation, Google, Apple and others are working together to buy Kodak's digital imaging patents.
Financially troubled RIM probably doesn't have two pennies to rub together, so the company must be thrilled that it just saved itself $147.2 million.
Microsoft is tired of Google’s campaign to paint it as a patent troll, and it has come up with some fairly simple suggestions to stop the bad blood: quit the negative publicity, and agree to our terms (or else).
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After proving it can still innovate in the smartphone arena with the Lumia 900, Nokia is now getting aggressive about defending its patents. The company announced this morning that it has filed patent suits against HTC, Research in Motion, and …
Not one to be bullied by Sunnyvale sourpuss Yahoo, Facebook is fighting fire with fire.
The social network, valued at $104 billion in a recent private auction, filed counterclaims to a Yahoo patent lawsuit Tuesday, alleging that its Valley foe …
Facebook amended its prospectus Tuesday to update would-be IPO investors on the status of two highly publicized legal matters.
The company also added comScore data from January showing a 57 percent increase from 2011 in the aggregate minutes per day …
David Sacks, the CEO of Yammer, is pissed. Last month he was hit with his first lawsuit from a patent troll. So when he saw that Yahoo was going after Facebook for patent infringement, he drew a line in the …
Yahoo has put the IP squeeze on Facebook, slapping it with a patent lawsuit during the quiet period in the run up to the social network’s IPO. While it’s tempting to see this as the first shot fired in a …
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With Facebook getting ready for its IPO, Yahoo has decided to sue over patent infringement. Yahoo used the same tactic against Google in the run up to their IPO, pocketing a helping of the search engine’s pre-IPO shares.
Yahoo’s new …
Article One Partners (AOP), a patent research firm that works with the U.S. patent office, announced today it has closed its second round of funding for $7 million.
Patent lawsuits are more common than product launches these days, especially thanks …
Microsoft has filed an antitrust complaint against Motorola Mobility with the European Commission on grounds that it is unfairly leveraging its patents, it announced on a company blog today.
The move comes hot on the heels of Apple’s decision last …
Come April 19, 2012, Android-powered HTC smartphones may be a bit harder to find on store shelves in the U.S.
In its final determination, the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled that HTC violated two claims of an Apple patent …
Between patent licensing fees (payable to Microsoft) and patent lawsuits (brought by Apple), Android device manufacturers just can’t catch a break.
But there is a silver lining: Google chairman Eric Schmidt stated today that Google would help and support those …
Barnes & Noble has appealed to U.S. regulators to put a stop to Microsoft’s collection of patent royalties for Android devices.
“Microsoft is embarking on a campaign of asserting trivial and outmoded patents against manufacturers of Android devices,” wrote Barnes …
Amazon is under fire for its new Kindle Fire tablet, the new target of a patent lawsuit by Smartphone Technologies of Acacia Research Corporation, a patent aggregating and licensing
Acacia Research has hit up a number of other smartphone manufacturers …
Google’s announcement this morning that it’s acquiring Motorola may have come as a surprise, but it certainly makes a lot of sense: Google has been wanting to get its hands on a stash of mobile patents for months, and it’s …
