Remember the legal battle Apple and Samsung were embroiled in with Apple arguing Samsung blatantly stole its iPhone design? Yes, it’s still going on. Apple was originally awarded $1 billion in damages, but Samsung got it down $400 million, and now, thanks to another appeal, that sum is being redetermined at another trial. United States District Court for the Northern District of...
Samsung is preparing to take its ongoing patent war with Apple to the Supreme Court, according to papers filed by the South Korean company earlier this week. The move comes after Samsung's plea to the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals was rejected. Samsung is hoping that the 2012 ruling in favor of Apple, which found Samsung guilty of patent infringement and ordered it to pay $1.05...
In 2012, a jury in California officially decided that Samsung infringed on Apple patents. The court ultimately ruled that Samsung owed Apple about $930 million in damages, including more than $320 million in payments related to "trade dress dilution." An appeals court on Monday, which was tasked with reexamining that $320 million infringement, ruled in Samsung's favor. The appeal...
The Apple-Samsung saga has come to a temporary end—Samsung, a jury voted, owes Apple roughly $120 million after finding the company to have infringed on patents relating to the iPhone. The decision put an end to a long-lasting battle that once saw Steve Jobs declare "thermonuclear war" on Android and its underlings. Samsung, after releasing its Galaxy S in 2010, was Apple's prime target...
In the early stages of Android, way back in 2006 when it was still the brainchild of Andy Rubin, the operating system was much different than it was today., In an ongoing lawsuit between Apple and Samsung, new details on Android surfaced, including information on what it was like eight years ago before it was released to the public. According to the documents, Android wasn't originally...
The information spilling out of the Apple vs. Samsung lawsuit is compelling and, sometimes a bit hilarious. A new slide from Samsung’s side of the argument was published this week, and it shows how Samsung was trying to identify itself amid the competition, including Google, Nokia, Apple and Sony Ericsson, with portraits of a person for each company. The image, which has the label “...
Way back in 2012 we covered a story with almost the exact same headline as this – which just goes to show, perhaps, how little progress has really been made in the battle between Apple and Samsung. On Thursday, Judge Lucy Koh reportedly denied Apple's most recent request for a permanent injunction against Samsung products in the United States – a request that had been filed this...
Mediation talks between Apple and Samsung have reportedly broke down, with neither side agreeing upon a compromise in their ongoing patent dispute. Neither party has confirmed the news, though multiple insider reports claim the most recent meeting was unproductive, meaning a final solution will need to be decided in court. In January, a judge ordered both sides to meet to discuss a...
In August, President Barrack Obama vetoed a decision by the International Trade Commission which would have stopped the import of iPhone 4 and iPad 2 3G to the United States because of a patent infringement suit from Samsung. Not long after, the tables found themselves turned with Apple able to convince the ITC to ban imports of Samsung phones. In a strange twist of fate, Samsung...
Throughout Apple’s many trials and patent disputes with Samsung and a host of other Android OEMs, Cupertino’s claim to the “pinch to zoom” UI is generally front and center. Apple claims to hold the patent for the touchscreen control which pretty much every other company freely uses in its own devices. Now, Apple may have lost a major missile in its patent arsenal following a new ruling...