Yonhap News reports that the Korean cousins Samsung and LG are in a row over the eye-tracking technology in their respective flagship phones, the Galaxy S4 and Optimus G Pro. The feature at the center of the controversy is called Smar…
In developing its 3DS portable console, Nintendo infringed on a glasses-free 3D patent owned by a former Sony employee. That’s according to a New York federal jury, which earlier today hit Nintendo with $30.2 million in damages. The p…
This week five major internet service providers in the United States rolled out the “six strike” Copyright Alert System (CAS), and while we already had a sense of how AT&T and Verizon would be employing the alerts, we now …
RED, the maker of ultra-high definition cameras, has filed a lawsuit against Sony claiming that some of the company’s F-series cameras infringe on its patents. The lawsuit calls for a sales injunction, the destruction of exist…
Back in 2011 British Telecom filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Google, accusing almost all of Google’s services and products of infringing its intellectual property. In a pattern that’s become all too familiar, howev…
Choosing an alternative strategy over a long and drawn out courtroom charade, Samsung has dropped an injunction request against LG Display. The decision now puts the responsibility in the hands of the two parties to come to terms on a settlement or licensing deal after Samsung sought a ban based on LG’s claimed infringement upon [...]
Internet celebrity, file-sharing mogul, and top-ranked Modern Warfare 3 player Kim Dotcom is back in the news. He and his cofounders were indicted in the US for copyright infringement and racketeering related to the piracy hub…
Motorola has suffered yet another blow in the courtrooms of the world up against Microsoft. Today, Judge James Robart of the district court of Seattle, WA ruled that 13 of Motorola’s claims of patent infringement against Microsoft were invalidated. The claims pertained to the use of three H.264 video encoding patents. Google and Motorola reportedly [...]
Kim Dotcom — the infamous, indefatigable internet entrepreneur with an unidentifiable European cadence and the bravado of a Bond villain — is back in our lives. Exactly a year after his website Megaupload was shut …
Tonight one of the big outstanding issues in the Apple vs. Samsung case came to a close when Judge Lucy Koh ruled that Samsung’s infringement of Apple patents was not in fact willful. At issue are the seven design and utility …
