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Judge strikes $450 million from $1 billion damages award in Apple v. Samsung : second trial needed - 2 mars 2013
Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over two Apple v. Samsung cases in the Northern District of California, has just entered an order striking (or, more precisely, vacating) $450,514,650 ($450 million) from a $1,049,343,540 ($1.05 billion) damages award determined by a jury in August 2012. The $450 million (...)
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Microsoft-Google FRAND trial concluded after six days of testimony - 21 novembre 2012
On Tuesday (November 20), Judge James L. Robart of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington entered a minute order according to which the FRAND rate-setting trial between Microsoft and Google’s Motorola Mobility has been completed. Yesterday was trial day 6.
Motorola Mobility is a (...)
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Patent office tentatively invalidates Apple’s rubber-banding patent used in Samsung trial - 24 octobre 2012
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has good news for Samsung, and Samsung has already shared it with Judge Koh in a late-night filing. In a non-final Office action the USPTO has declared all 20 claims of Apple’s rubber-banding patent (U.S. Patent No, 7,469,381 invalid, including claim 19, which Apple (...)
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The Android camp is enforcing only one patent injunction against Apple (and none against Microsoft) - 29 septembre 2012
Today a newspaper journalist contacted me about my recently-posted list of the 17 Apple and Microsoft patents that courts in different jurisdictions have found Android-based devices to infringe and asked me whether I also had a list of offensive cases the Android camp has won against Apple and Microsoft. There are (...)
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Android devices have already been found to infringe 17 valid Apple and Microsoft patents - 27 septembre 2012
Roughly three months ago I listed 11 Apple and Microsoft patents that courts in different countries had deemed valid and infringed by Android-based devices. This list has grown by more than 50% during this calendar quarter, so I wanted to update it.
With respect to each patent-in-suit, my list reflects the most (...)
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German court says Samsung and Motorola don’t infringe Apple’s touch event model patent - 21 septembre 2012
This morning, the Mannheim Regional Court announced a decision against Apple’s claim that Android-based devices infringe EP2098948 on a "touch event model". Technically, the panel presided by Judge Andreas Voss ("Voß" in German) ruled on two separate lawsuits : Samsung was the defendant in one of them, and Motorola (...)
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German court hands Apple rubber-banding patent injunction against Google’s Motorola Mobility - 13 septembre 2012
After the billion-dollar California verdict against Samsung, and one day after the launch of the iPhone 5, Apple just dealt Google and its Android ecosystem the next significant blow.
At the Munich I Regional Court, Presiding Judge Dr. Peter Guntz announced his panel’s decision, which had been pushed back by five (...)
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Apple’s billion-dollar win over Samsung is a huge breakthrough — but it’s not thermonuclear - 25 août 2012
A California jury just handed Apple a near-complete victory on its own claims and awarded it more than $1 billion in damages, and rejected all of Samsung’s claims. With most of the infringement having been established to have been willful, the jury essentially concluded that Samsung is a reckless copycat and, since (...)
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These are the seven patents Google’s Motorola Mobility is asserting against Apple - 20 août 2012
On Friday, wholly-owned Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility announced the filing of a new (second) ITC complaint against Apple. I previously commented on this announcement and possible tactical considerations behind it.
Today I have been able to access the complaint. It was filed by Quinn Emanuel, the law firm (...)
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Copying and misconduct at heart of Apple’s and Samsung’s disagreement on jury instructions - 13 août 2012
On Sunday, Judge Lucy Koh ordered Apple’s and Samsung’s lead counsel to meet in person that same day (Apple previously complained that Samsung had not been willing to make its lead counsel available for a meeting) and to file their disputed and undisputed proposed jury instructions until 8 AM local time (Monday). (...)
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Samsung complains about Apple attaching large exhibit labels to backside of devices - 10 août 2012
Samsung just brought a motion for a court order to "to label joint exhibit devices in a manner not obscuring trade dress". Apple apparently has custody over those joint exhibit devices, most of which are Samsung devices. According to Samsung’s representation, Apple just recently attached large exhibit labels to the (...)
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Apple expands attack on HTC’s acquired patents, tries to kill two pending cases at once - 8 août 2012
Apple has already won a dismissal from an ITC investigation of five patents HTC acquired from Google last year, and it’s now trying to get rid of four more Google loan patents that HTC asserted in another venue (the United States District Court for the District of Delaware) as well as two patents HTC acquired from (...)
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Summer heat in the courtroom : Apple has four Android-related patent trials this month - 5 août 2012
The big Apple v. Samsung trial in California (by the way, its primary hashtag on Twitter is #iCourt, though some also use #appsung) is by far not the only Android-related patent trial for Apple during this month of August. I thought it would be a good idea to provide a quick overview of what else is going on — (...)
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With German FAT patent ruling, Microsoft scores third court victory over Google in as many months - 27 juillet 2012
This morning, Judge Andreas Voss ("Voß" in German) of the Mannheim Regional Court, who has already presided over more smartphone-related patent lawsuits than any other judge in the world, announced a ruling in Microsoft’s favor against Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility. Motorola’s Android-based devices have been (...)
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Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility appeals U.S. Android import ban won by Microsoft - 20 juillet 2012
Motorola Mobility, now a wholly-owned Google subsidiary, yesterday appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit an ITC import ban that was ordered in May and took effect this week, effectively requiring the removal of a meeting scheduler feature.
Quite apparently, Google isn’t comfortable (...)
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HTC countersues Apple over two U.S. patents it recently acquired from HP - 18 juillet 2012
The latest escalation in the "smartphone patent wars" is that HTC today brought infringement counterclaims against Apple in the Southern District of Florida over two patents it acquired from HP last December.
The litigation in which the Taiwanese device maker is asserting those two patents is a case that started (...)
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Damages figures like the $147M verdict against RIM could make smartphones unaffordable - 16 juillet 2012
The biggest smartphone patent news of the weekend is that a Northern California jury rendered a verdict in favor of a little-known company named Mformation Technologies against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) to the tune of $147.2 million, assuming that a "reasonable" per-unit royalty for just one patent (...)
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Companies worth $1 trillion are suing others over Android’s alleged patent infringement - 15 juillet 2012
On Friday it became discoverable that Fujifilm, a Japanese company, has sued Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility for Android’s alleged infringement of four of its patents. So far, Fujifilm has mostly played a defensive role in patent litigation, bringing declaratory judgment actions or countersuits. But after (...)
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In response to Nokia’s ITC complaint, HTC raises patent exhaustion and FRAND defenses - 12 juillet 2012
In May, Nokia sued HTC (as well as two other companies, Viewsonic and RIM) over various patents. Yesterday I expressed serious doubt about an unspecific FRAND defense that RIM raised against a couple of lawsuits Nokia had filed in the District of Delaware. Answers to federal complaints don’t have to be overly (...)
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Nokia hits RIM with three more patents in Munich - 11 juillet 2012
RIM has enough problems on its plate these days. Nokia added three more to the list : I found out that Nokia has recently filed, with the Munich I Regional Court, patent infringement actions against RIM over three additional patents.
More than two months ago, Nokia filed patent lawsuits against HTC, Viewsonic and (...)
