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Samsung redesigns its way out of one Galaxy Tab ban in Germany
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Samsung has emerged victorious for the second time against Apple in Germany, after the Dusseldorf Regional Court rejected Apple’s request for a sales injunction on the Korean tablet maker’s modified Galaxy Tab 10.1N model. Bloomberg reports that the rejection centred on Apple’s use of a European design right, which it lost...
Google's Motorola cuts German Android offerings to zero
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Injunctions by Apple and Microsoft appear to have persuaded Motorola Mobility to pull all of its Android phones and tablets from the German marketGoogle's handset subsidiary Motorola Mobility (MMI) has abruptly withdrawn all its Android devices from sale in Germany, apparently after failing to overturn patent judgments won by Microsoft...
RIM loses arbitration, has to agree with Nokia on royalties or stop selling WiFi products
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Nokia has announced filings with courts in the United States (Northern District of California, to be precise), the UK and Canada to enforce an arbitration award against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM). I have downloaded the petition filed with the U.S. court.The arbitration proceeding took place in Sweden. I...
One Munich court denies an Apple injunction motion, another tosses a Microsoft lawsuit
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Three of the court rulings that have so far found Android devices to infringe 11 valid Apple and Microsoft patents came down in Munich. After Judge Koh's court in San Jose in the Northern District of California, this makes the Southern German city, which is also the seat of the...
Motorola Mobility Has Infringed Microsoft Patent, Says Munich Court
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Google-owned Motorola Mobility has infringed a Microsoft patent related to SMS messaging, according to a ruling in the Munich regional court, which also......
BlackBerry Enterprise Solution security feature may infringe Nokia patent
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Last Wednesday I attended a first hearing on one of various Nokia v. RIM lawsuits at the Munich I Regional Court. While nothing happened that would have required an immediate report, there are a couple of tidbits worth sharing.First post-arbitration Nokia-RIM court hearingThis was the first Nokia-RIM encounter in a courtroom...
Munich court denies Microsoft a preliminary injunction against the Motorola RAZR smartphone
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In the context of the Munich I Regional Court's denial of an Apple bid for a preliminary injunction against two Samsung devices, I already said that "[p]reliminary injunctions based on technical patents (as opposed to design-related rights) are relatively unusual in Germany". Today, the same court, under the same presiding...
German court stops Apple lawsuit over Motorola Gleam
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A Munich court at least temporarily adjourned an Apple lawsuit against Motorola on Thursday after doubting whether the German case should go ahead. While Judge Peter Guntz believed that the Motorola Gleam did violate an Apple computing patent as it existed, he was concerned that the Apple patent itself was...
Motorola to fight Apple patent on validity, not violation
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Motorola in a Munich court on Thursday made a partial concession in Apple's lawsuit over touch technology. The RAZR designer's attorney didn't directly contest a view by the presiding judge that Motorola was likely violating a patent for iOS' bounce effect during scrolling. Instead, Motorola hoped to challenge the validity...
Motorola Mobility has infringed Microsoft patent, says Munich court
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Google-owned Motorola Mobility has infringed a Microsoft patent related to SMS messaging, according to a ruling in the Munich regional court, which also dismissed a second case related to a localization patent....
Munich court won't ban Motorola Gleam at this stage for infringement of an Apple patent of doubtful validity
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Earlier today, the Munich I Regional Court held a second hearing, which under the local rules for patent litigation ("Münchner Verfahren") roughly corresponds to a trial, on one of Apple'S various German lawsuits against Motorola Mobility. In this particular action, Apple is asserting EP1430380 on a "computing device with dynamic...
Munich court won't ban Motorola Gleam at this stage for infringement of an Apple patent of doubtful validity
German court guns down third Samsung patent lawsuit, plus one from Apple
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Mannheim judge Andreas Voss is nothing if not decisive. FOSSPatents reports he's just thrown out a third Samsung v. Apple patent lawsuit relating to use of the 3G/UMTS standard. Not to be one-sided, he's also rejected the first of two Apple v. Samsung cases involving slide-to-unlock patents. Weirdly, this...
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
HTC Beats Back Apple in U.K. Patent Skirmish
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HTC has emerged the victor in another of its patent battles with Apple. On Wednesday the U.K.’s High Court ruled that HTC does not infringe the four patents Apple asserted against it. It also found three of those four patents for slide-to-unlock, multi-touch and multilingual keyboard capability to be invalid,...
Another German court denies Apple's request for a ban of Galaxy Tab 10.1N
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It's starting to look like Samsung has created a successful workaround to Apple's European design rights with the new Galaxy Tab 10.1N. The Dusseldorf Regional Court in Germany denied Apple's bid yesterday for a ban on the Samsung tablet, holding that "the Galaxy Tab 10.1N now sufficiently differs from...
Motorola found violating Apple slide-to-unlock patent
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Apple won a crucial win against Motorola in a Munich court after it won a permanent ban against most Motorola uses of its slide-to-unlock patent. Motorola's current smartphones, though not its tablets, allegedly copy two techniques first seen in 2007 on the iPhone. A third representation leveled against the Xoom...
Munich court to decide on Apple's overscroll bounce patent in Motorola case on August 9
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Yesterday I attended a second hearing, tantamount to a trial, on an Apple v. Motorola Mobility lawsuit at the Munich I Regional Court. At the first hearing in April, Motorola had virtually admitted to the infringement of Apple's "overscroll bounce", or "rubber-banding", patent (EP2126678 on "list scrolling and document translation, scaling,...
Munich court skeptical of Nokia patent assertion against Google Talk
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The Munich I Regional Court scheduled first hearings today in three cases brought by Nokia, all of which share the patent-in-suit, EP133072 on "a mobile communication system and a method for connecting a remote workstation to a data communication network via a mobile communication network". The three defendants are --...
Apple sues Samsung in Mannheim over patent based on which Munich court denied preliminary injunction last week
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Apple does not let anyone off the hook too easily when it comes to patent litigation. Samsung, which has so far also shown quite some perseverance, knows exactly what I mean.A few days ago I read that Apple injected roughly 20 new patents into its Australian litigation with Samsung (I...
Apple sues Samsung in Mannheim over patent based on which Munich court denied preliminary injunction last week
Munich court denies Apple an injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1N and Galaxy Nexus
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Bloomberg reports that the Munich I Regional Court today handed a negative ruling on an Apple request for a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1N and the Galaxy Nexus. According to Bloomberg (which scooped everyone else on this, including me, though I live in the Munich area), Apple asserted...
Apple Denied Sales Ban on Galaxy Tab and Nexus in Germany
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One of the hotbeds in Apple’s ongoing patent war with Samsung has been Germany, but a German court just handed Apple a bit of a smackdown. A Munich court has found that Apple does not have the right to ban Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Nexus from Germany. The case...
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