Tag Archives : infringing-upon

The U.S. International Trade Commission on Tuesday issued a limited ban and cease & desist order on Apple products for infringing upon Samsung’s technology. The ruling concerns the AT&T versions of the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3, iPad 3G and iPad 2 3G. Samsung had claimed that Apple violated several of its patents, however the ITC only found the company infringed upon one [...]

Samsung (005930) has filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission requesting an import and sales ban on a variety of Ericsson (ERIC) products. The company’s move comes after Ericsson filed a similar request with the agency last week. Samsung previously accused Ericsson of asking for “prohibitively higher royalty rates to renew the same patent portfolio” [...]

HTC and Apple have just confirmed that they’ve settled all of their ongoing patent disputes, ending all of their lawsuits and opting into a 10-year licensing agreement. To refresh your memory, this particular saga begin back on March 2nd, 2010, when Apple filed lawsuits with the International Trade Commission and US District Court. That initial filing covered 20 patents related to iOS, which [...]

Thought the Personal Audio / Apple brouhaha was over? Think again, because everyone’s favorite patent licensing company is back, hitting Cupertino with another suit. You’ll recall an earlier ruling by a federal jury in Eastern Texas found the CE maker guilty of infringing upon PA’s playlist-related IP with an assortment of older iPods. This new filing alleges that newer Apple [...]

If at first you don’t succeed, dust yourself off, fly across the Pacific, and try again! At least, that seems to be the plan over at Apple. On Wednesday, Judge Lucy Koh gave a court order rejecting Samsung’s request to check out the iPad 3 and the iPhone 5, but in her order we stumbled upon a tricky little passage. In that passage, Judge Koh hinted that she would not give Apple the preliminary [...]