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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple wants to add Galaxy S4 to second patent case against Samsung in California (spring 2014 trial)   —  Late on Monday, Apple and Samsung submitted statements in response to Judge Koh's April 24, 2013 order to narrow their second California case.  Narrowing will occur in several steps until the spring 2014 trial.
May 14, 2013, 12:10 PMIn context
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple prevailed over Samsung on post-trial procedures: limited retrial in November   —  Based on current schedules, there will be two Apple v. Samsung trials in the Northern District of Calfornia over the next 12 months: a smaller one in November and another big one starting in March.
Apr 30, 2013, 11:55 AMIn context
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Google keeps losing: ITC finally tosses Motorola's complaint against Apple   —  This week begins for Google like last week ended: with another failure to convert the $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility into leverage against a major rival.  On Friday a German court denied Google's Motorola …
Apr 22, 2013, 5:15 PMIn context
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Nokia comments on VP8 patent infringement assertions filed with IETF, criticizes Google   —  After discovering and blogging about Nokia's declaration of intellectual property rights (IPRs) allegedly infringed by Google's VP8 video codec I asked Nokia for comment.
Mar 25, 2013, 5:40 AMIn context
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Nokia wins German patent injunction against HTC over power-saving technology   —  This morning Nokia won a German patent injunction against HTC that may give the Finnish handset maker enough leverage to sell a patent license to its Taiwanese rival unless Qualcomm, which provides baseband chipsets to HTC …
Mar 19, 2013, 6:20 AMIn context
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
German court dismisses two Nokia patent lawsuits against HTC, one of them over Google Play   —  This morning the Mannheim Regional Court announced decisions relating to three smartphone patent cases: two Nokia v. HTC lawsuits and one Samsung v. Apple case (I'll blog about that one in the subsequent post).
Mar 8, 2013, 11:20 AMIn context
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Google about to lose patent spat with Microsoft: German court inclined to ban Google Maps   —  [BREAKING NEWS during break at Munich patent trial; may still add more detail later]  —  Judge Dr. Matthias Zigann of the Munich I Regional Court just told Google and its Motorola Mobility subsidiary …
Mar 7, 2013, 5:45 PMIn context
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Judge strikes $450 million from $1 billion damages award in Apple v. Samsung: second trial needed   —  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 …
Mar 1, 2013, 3:40 PMIn context
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
UK judge who issued extreme ruling for Samsung against Apple hired by... Samsung!   —  By far and away the weirdest ruling in the worldwide smartphone and tablet wars came down last year in the UK, where a publicity order forcing Apple to promote Samsung's products and to make itself ridiculous …
Feb 28, 2013, 8:20 AMIn context
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
HTC gadgets held at airport by German customs officers over alleged 3G patent infringement   —  At a 3G patent damages trial held in Mannheim on Friday afternoon, counsel for HTC told the most popular court in the world for wireless patent disputes that some of the Taiwanese device maker's shipments …
Feb 18, 2013, 6:45 PMIn context

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