The Apple-Samsung Jury Issues Would Not Happen In Scotland
Because on this side of the Atlantic, the first rule about jury service is… you do not talk about jury service.
Tag: patent
Should I be worried about Apple’s podcasting patent?
Apple have been awarded their podcasting patent on “Techniques and systems for supporting podcasting” Pretty sure there’s a bundle of prior art here (Kevin?), but I’m looking at this with a cold chill. I’m not a patent lawyer, but it looks to me that Apple have walked up to the very big podcasting table, opened their jacket enough for everyone to see them carrying an AK-47 Assault Rifle, and have sat down with an innocent smile on their face. I’m waiting for the other foot to drop on this one… Update: Kevin points out, via Twitter, his prior art late in
The Pincer Movement that could kill Android
Okay, some pure speculation on my part (and a link-bait of a headline), but could the next twelve months see a pincer movement on Android that neuters the Google dominance in the mobile space? On one side, Apple. They’ve just launched the iPhone 4S, with stunning sales. No matter what you think of the iPhone as a platform, the public see it as one of the leading handsets. Even when the Nokia N95 was technical delight, it was the Apple phone that caught the public. Times have changed, and as Google pull out as many stops as they can to
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit being Samsung’s IP lawyer
Reuters: Koh frequently remarked on the similarity between each company’s tablets. At one point during the hearing, she held one black glass tablet in each hand above her head, and asked Sullivan if she could identify which company produced which. “Not at this distance your honor,” said Sullivan, who stood at a podium roughly ten feet away. “Can any of Samsung’s lawyers tell me which one is Samsung and which one is Apple?” I hope the defence team like movies about gladiators.
Samsung licence Android from Microsoft
Or more specifically the right to use certain patents on their Android devices, which Microsoft will now collect a per-device royalty. And here’s me thinking that Google buying Motorola Mobility was meant to strengthen Android against this sort of thing…
Follow the patent, follow the money, find some madness from HTC
U.S. Patent No. 6,473,006 on a “method and apparatus for zoomed display of characters entered from a telephone keypad”; originally filed by Phone-com, which assigned it to Openwave, then sold to a French company named Purple Labs, which sold it on to Myriad’s French subsidiary, sold by Myriad to Google last year and by Google to HTC on August 29, 2011 (recorded on September 1). And now HTC use it to sue Apple for infringing on their IP. Madness, I tell you. Madness!
