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Google Patents a Way to Keep Pirated Content off of Google Play

Rithvik April 4, 2014 54

Any user of Google Play knows that when you search for the most popular apps, there's always a clone or two at hand. While Google does make an effort to remove these kinds of apps, it's inevitable that they won't be able to stop every last one. That's where...

Google and Samsung Reach Patent Cross-Licensing Agreement

Kyle January 27, 2014 22

Don’t say Google doesn’t protect its Android OEMs. Yesterday, Samsung announced a broad patent cross-license agreement with the search giant, giving the companies access to each other’s current patents and all those filed over the next 10 years. The patents,...

Judge Finds Google Guilty of Infringing SimpleAir Patent, Could Pay up to $125 Million in Damages

Kyle January 23, 2014 87

The courts just can’t cut Google a break. Earlier this week, the federal judge overseeing legal negations between Samsung and Apple ruled that a core feature of Android infringed on an Apple patent, and now a court for the Eastern District of Texas has allowed...

Qualcomm Buys Palm and Other Mobile Related Patents From HP

Kellen January 23, 2014 13

Qualcomm announced this afternoon that it has acquired a patent portfolio from HP that includes patents from Palm, IPAQ, and Bitfone. As you can imagine, they are indeed mobile-related, with Qualcomm saying that this acquisition "further enhances strength and...

Judge Deals Samsung Legal Blows, Invalidates Patent and Rules Auto-Complete Infringes on Apple’s Tech

Kyle January 22, 2014 197

Samsung’s litigious battle with Apple over device patents hasn’t gone well for the Korea-based company. On Tuesday, Judge Lucy Koh invalidated Samsung’s multimedia sync patent, intellectual property that the company intended to use as leverage against Apple...

Apple Once Again Seeks U.S. Sales Injunction on Over 20 Samsung Devices

Kyle December 28, 2013 66

It was Ronald Reagan who once dismissively addressed arguments with the words, “There you go again.” In response to Apple’s renewed request for an injunction banning the sale of more than 20 different Samsung smartphones and tablets, I imagine Samsung lawyers...

Google Goes on the Attack Against Patent Troll Rockstar Consortium

Kellen December 26, 2013 100

The battle between Google and Rockstar Consortium - a patent troll group backed by Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, and others that owns $4.5 billion in Nortel patents - heated up over the holidays, with Google filing a lawsuit to try and protect Android and its...

Proposed Bill to Fight Patent Trolls Overwhelmingly Passed by the House of Representatives

Eric December 5, 2013 29

You might not be familiar with the Innovation Act that is currently making the rounds in Washington D.C., but you might want to keep an eye on it now. Today, the bill brought to the floor by Rep. Bob Goodlatte from Virginia was passed by a wide margin of 325...