Friday, October 18, 2013

Germany's Federal Patent Court invalidates a Microsoft patent on multilingual programs

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Google's Motorola Mobility, represented by Quinn Emanuel , scored a surprise win over a Microsoft patent yesterday at the Munich-based B...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Patentgate: Apple motion for sanctions against Samsung pending before the ITC as well

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Thanks to the end of the government shutdown the website of the United States International Trade Commission (USITC, or just ITC), a trade a...

U.S. patent office confirmed all 20 claims of the Steve Jobs patent: bad for Samsung, Google

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Last December, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a first Office action tentatively rejecting all claims of the ...

EU Commission market-tests totally insufficient FRAND commitments offered by Samsung

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For about two years I was hopeful, and to a reduced extent I still am, that European Commission Vice President Joaquín Almunia was going to ...

Patent trolls' favorite court takes all-or-nothing approach to HTC's FRAND defense

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Compared to the FRAND rate-setting opinions by Judges Robart and Holderman , last week's Wi-LAN v. HTC pretrial order in the Eastern D...

Ruling canceled: HTC struggling to win patent case against Nokia before closing of Microsoft deal

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The Munich I Regional Court had originally scheduled a decision on an HTC v. Nokia patent infringement lawsuit over a power-saving techniqu...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Microsoft and Google want final FRAND breach ruling, disagree only on details

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The final clean-up for the FRAND contract dispute between Microsoft and Google's Motorola in the Western District of Washington is under...