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German court dismisses Motorola's patent lawsuit against Apple
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Motorola suffered a setback in Germany this morning, after a Mannheim Regional Court struck down one of the company's several patent lawsuits against Apple. The patent in question, EP1053613, is considered essential to the 3G/UMTS wireless standard and, more specifically, pertains to a "method and system for generating a...
Motorola wants 2.25 percent of Apple sales, in exchange for patent license
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New details have emerged about the ongoing Apple-Motorola drama in Germany, courtesy of a court document uncovered by FOSS Patents. The two companies have been engaged in a patent battle of swelling proportion these past few months, with the most recent wrinkle unfolding on Friday, when Apple promptly removed...
Apple pressuring regulators to set FRAND licensing rules
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In what perhaps some could label a move out of desperation, Apple issued a letter to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute asking the body to establish consistent royalty fees for patents deemed essential to wireless standards, reports the Wall Street Journal. The body has a role in setting the standards...
Apple offered patent licensing deal to Samsung before trial
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iPhone maker proposed a reciprocal agreement to license Samsung's 3G/UMTS patents for what it considered FRAND terms, a letter from Apple to its smartphone rival reveals. [Read more]...
Mannheim court halts Apple's second slide-to-unlock case against Samsung
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It's taking Apple and Samsung time to win any decision against each other in Mannheim. Two weeks ago, Samsung lost its third 3G/UMTS-related case in a row and Apple saw the first one of its two German slide-to-unlock cases against Samsung thrown out. This morning, Apple's second slide-to-unlock case was...
Samsung Galaxy S3: Which US carrier should you choose?
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Tomorrow, June 21, the Samsung Galaxy S3 arrives in the United States. A carpet bomb launch will see the phone arrive on all four major carriers — AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile — at the same time, at the same price ($200 for the 16GB version, with a two-year contract)....
Apple Scores Twice Over Samsung in Dutch Court
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Notch another victory for Apple in its ongoing legal battle with Samsung — two, actually. The Hague District Court in the Netherlands today ruled that Samsung cannot seek an injunction against iPhone sales in the country as long as Apple is willing to negotiate a license agreement for the patents...
Apple's amended FRAND counterclaims against Samsung largely withstand motion to dismiss
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At close of business on Monday, Judge Lucy Koh of the United States District Court for the Norther District of California ruled on a Samsung motion (filed on November 22, 2011) to dismiss Apple's amended FRAND counterclaims brought in the first California litigation between the two which started in April...
Appeals court likely to give German iCloud users push email back on 24th, lift Google's injunction
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Due to an injunction Google's Motorola Mobility won against Apple over a dubious patent in Germany in February 2012 and started to enforce that same month, Apple was forced to deactivate push notifications for users accessing the iCloud (or its predecessor, MobileMe) from Germany. This relates primarily to push email but...
Motorola just lost one of two patents it wanted to assert against Apple at this month's Chicago trial
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Judge Posner continues to act like a winnowing machine in his efforts to reduce the scope of the Apple v. Motorola Mobility trial that will start on Monday (June 11). Yesterday I reported that he asked questions that could point to some further reduction of the scope of the upcoming trial...
Motorola just lost one of two patents it wanted to assert against Apple at this month's Chicago trial
AT&T's LTE investments will go big by using small cells
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AT&T said on Wednesday it will spend $14 billion in boosting its wireless and wireline networks with $8 billion in expanding its LTE network. The carrier expects to cover 300 million people by the end of 2014 using new small cell technology and distributed antennas. The expansion will help support...
Apple touted its 'strong and growing' UMTS patent portfolio in cross-licensing offer to Samsung
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This week, a variety of unredacted Apple v. Samsung documents was filed after Judge Koh denied the parties' requests to seal them. Many of them relate to the jury misconduct issue, which (as I'll explain at the end of this post) is outside my focus. The part that's really most...
Mannheim court throws out third Samsung 3G lawsuit against Apple and one of two slide-to-unlock lawsuits against Samsung
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[DEVELOPING STORY -- still adding detail -- please check back later for more]This morning, the Mannheim Regional Court handed down two patent rulings involving Apple and Samsung. Judge Andreas Voss threw out the third Samsung v. Apple lawsuit in a row (over a 3G/UMTS-essential patents like the previous two) and...
Mannheim court throws out third Samsung 3G lawsuit against Apple and one of two slide-to-unlock lawsuits against Samsung
Motorola v. Apple 3G patent suit tossed by German court
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Just a week after Motorola was awarded two significant victories in a German court over Apple, the companies’ luck have changed. On Friday, a judge ruled he would not grant an injunction against Apple products on the basis of a 3G/UMTS patent claimed by Motorola and dismissed the suit. Patents...
German court dismisses Motorola patent lawsuit against Apple
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On Friday, the Mannheim Regional Court of Germany announced that Motorola’s patent lawsuit against Apple had been dismissed. The patent in question was considered essential to the 3G/UMTS wireless telecommunications standard and was used as a “method and system for generating a complex pseudonoise sequence for processing a code...
German court throws out two suits in Apple-Samsung patent spat
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A German court has thrown out a third lawsuit Samsung recently filed against Apple regarding a 3G patent, along with one of two slide-to-unlock suits Apple filed against Samsung, FOSS Patents reported on Friday. Judge Andreas Voss of the Mannheim Regional Court ruled that Samsung’s standard-essential patent covers a...
German Court Tosses Pair of Apple, Samsung Suits
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There are two fewer lawsuits in Apple’s patent battle with Samsung today thanks to the decisive action of a German court. Judge Andreas Voss of the Mannheim Regional Court this morning threw out two lawsuits in the case – one that Apple brought against Samsung and another that Samsung brought...
German court keeps Samsung's hopes alive by scheduling retrial in 3G patent case against Apple
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This morning -- the day after Justice Floyd in the UK declared three of Samsung's standard-essential patents (SEPs) invalid -- Judge Andreas Voss ("Voß" in German) ordered a retrial, scheduled for July 26, 2013, in a Samsung v. Apple case over a 3G standard-essential patent (SEP). The second trial is needed...
Motorola loses a 3G/UMTS patent suit against Apple
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Motorola has failed in its bid to force another 3G/UMTS-based patent injunction against Apple in the Mannheim Regional Court, according to Foss Patents. German Judge Andreas Voss dismissed the evidence presented in court by Motorolaís lawyers on the grounds that it had failed to demonstrate conclusive evidence that Apple had...
NPE asserts foundational British Telecom patent against Apple, RIM, Android companies, carriers
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BT (British Telecommunications) continues to aggressively monetize its wireless patent portfolio through direct and indirect litigation against other industry players. Today a non-practicing entity named Steelhead Licensing LLC filed a host of simultaneous lawsuits in the District of Delaware over a foundational wireless patent that belonged to BT until very...
Apple removed products from German online store due to Motorola injunction based on FRAND patent
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There are two big Apple-Motorola news items from Germany today:As I reported earlier, Motorola Mobility today won a permanent injunction against Apple's iCloud and the related client devices.The leading German news agency, dpa (Deutsche Presse-Agentur), quotes an official Apple statement according to which the company has just removed, as a...
Samsung sucker-punched by Euro set-backs
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Samsung‘s short run of legal success against Apple has been quickly curtailed, with the past two weeks punctuated by court rejections and news that the European Commission has singled out the firm for potentially misusing patents. The Korean company’s prospects had been buoyed by a Dutch court finding against Apple...
Samsung loses second German 3G patent lawsuit against Apple
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One week after dismissing Samsung's first German patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, the Mannheim Regional Court also rejected Samsung's second complaint.Either complaint related to the 3G/UMTS wireless telecommunications standard.I attended the pronouncement of the ruling (at 9 AM local time). Judge Andreas Voss did not state any particular reasons for...
Apple removes iPhones, iPads from German online store due to injunction
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Apple has removed all 3G/UMTS-capable iPad and iPhone models from its German online store in response to an injunction based on a wireless standard FRAND patent owned by Motorola Mobility....
German court rejects Samsung's second 3G patent complaint against Apple
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About a week after suffering a legal setback in Germany, Samsung received another bit of bad news this morning, when the Mannheim Regional Court rejected the second of its patent infringement claims against Apple. As with last week's ruling, today's decision addresses one of Samsung's arguments that Apple's 3G...
German court dismisses second Samsung patent suit against Apple
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One week after dismissing Samsung’s first German patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, a German court has also rejected a second suit, reports Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents. Judge Andreas Voss of Germany’s Mannheim Regional Court on Friday addressed Samsung’s argument that certain 3G and UMTS technology in Apple’s iPhones...
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