Legal: Patents
Samsung stung by $539 million jury verdict in Apple patent defeat
The company argued it should only be on the hook for $28 million; expect another appeal....
Google patent on related entities and what it means for SEO
Contributor Dave Davies pulls key points from a newly awarded Google patent on related entities and points out the ranking benefits of...
Amazon ‘1-Click’ patent expires today, get ready for faster web-wide checkout
Reducing shopping cart abandonment represents billions in potential additional revenue for retailers....
Love, Not War: Microsoft & Google End Patent Suits
Yesterday Google and Microsoft agreed to dismiss multiple patent lawsuits against one another. While the settlement terms were not disclosed,...
Ericsson Seeks To Block iPhone In U.S. In Latest Patent Dispute
Patent litigation is heating up again. Earlier this week, Apple was hit by a half-billion dollar jury verdict over iTunes. Now, Swedish wireless...
Texas Jury Hands Patent Troll Massive $533 Million Damages Award Against Apple
A federal jury in Texas, the favorite venue of patent litigants, has awarded an IP holding company, called Smartflash LLC, $532.9 million...
Google Patent For Ads That Follow You Surfaces
Imagine if after clicking on an ad, it expanded and then persisted as you navigated to additional web content linked to from the ad itself....
Google Wins Patent-Infringement Appeal Against Vringo
Google appears to have finally come out on top in its patent-infringement battle with Vringo Inc. In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals...
Apple & Google End Bitter Mobile Patent Litigation Chapter
Late last week, Apple and Google’s (soon to be Lenovo’s) Motorola Mobility settled their mutual mobile patent claims against one...
Patent Verdict: Apple Wins The Round But Fails To Land A Blow Vs. Samsung
You have to wonder what Apple and its lawyers are now thinking. Last Friday’s patent victory did almost nothing for the company and...
Second Apple Patent Suit Vs. Samsung Ropes In Google
If you’re tired of news about smartphone-related patent litigation, you’re not alone. However, there’s more to come as Apple...
Coming To Google: Click On Ad, Get Free Ride To Merchant Or Restaurant?
The day may be near when AdWords advertisers can offer customers immediate transportation to bring them to their locations right from an ad. ...
Verdict: Samsung Owes Apple $290 Million More But It Won’t Matter
The Judge (Lucy Koh) in the landmark Samsung-Apple patent trial in California ordered a partial retrial on damages. Today the damages case was...
Google’s $1 Billion Waze Acquisition To See Antitrust Review
It will probably just be a formality; however, Google confirmed this weekend that its proposed acquisition of social mapping platform Waze will...
Apple Targets Samsung Galaxy S4 & “Google Now” With Amended Patent Claims
In the ongoing “war of the worlds” patent litigation between Apple and Samsung/Google, the Cupertino company has said it will amend...
Europe Finds That Google’s Motorola Unit “Abused Its Dominant Position” In Patent Fight With Apple
The European Commission has made a preliminary determination that Google’s Motorola Mobility unit “abused its dominant...
Federal Judge Expresses Anger Toward Apple, Motorola For Using Global Litigation “As A Business Strategy”
In the original Star Trek series episode called “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield,” two nearly identical aliens, inflamed by...
Google Countersues British Telecom In US, UK For Patent Infringement
Google (and Motorola Mobility) have counter-sued the UK’s BT Group (British Telecom) for patent infringement in the US and UK. This...
Oracle V. Google Part Deux: The Copyright Appeal
Oracle has filed an appeal in its unsuccessful copyright and patent case against Google involving the Java programming language (specifically...
Facebook, AddThis Face Lawsuit Over ‘Like’ Button
Facebook and AddThis, the social sharing platform company, are named as defendants in a lawsuit that claims two violations of patent...
