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hasn’t been going so well for the company.
A German regional court dismissed Samsung’s complaint, which claimed Apple infringed on one of its patent relating to 3G/UMTS wireless standards. This was Samsung’s second loss to 
, in the same court, within a week.
There wasn’t any official reason given as to why Samsung’s claims were dismissed. Florian Mueller of
There are two reasonably likely possibilities: either Apple ‘s products weren’t (more…)

In October 2011, Apple won a patent detailing the method of sliding an onscreen mark to unlock the iOS operating system on a mobile device. Now, just four months later, Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus is coming under fire for violating that patent.

As Samsung and Apple have been going head-to-head in court lately, this should come as little surprise. The latest battlefield was in Germany where Samsung was hoping (more…)

Apple filed two new lawsuits in Germany, seeking to ban 10 Samsung smartphones and 5 tablets.
t war with Samsung continues with two new lawsuits filed in Germany’s Dusseldorf Regional Court.
The first lawsuit targets ten different smartphone models, including Samsung’s Galaxy S Plus and the S II, and is based on Apple ‘s design rights. The second focuses on five of Samsung’s tablet models. Neither was filed under “emergency proceedings,” which (more…)

Apple ‘s patent woes worsen, as their lawsuit with Motorola Mobility has reached an interesting point. An initial ruling in Germany could prevent Apple from selling all versions of the
.
FOSS Patents reports that this is the first “substantive” ruling on this case, as the
 will be discussed at a hearing coming up in February.
), which describes a ”method for performing a countdown function during a mobile-originated transfer for a packet (more…)

A German court in Mannheim, Germany seems to be prepared to rule in favor of Motorola in a patent lawsuit.
service.
Last April, Motorola Mobility filed a patent lawsuit related to Apple ‘s MobileMe service against Apple Sales International, an Irish company that is the supplier of Apple products. When iCloud was introduced as its successor, Motorola argued that iCloud was a continuation of MobileMe and the lawsuit was updated accordingly.
, (more…)

On Friday last week, Motorola Mobility won an injunction against
in Germany. A German court, in a default judgement, barred Apple Inc. from selling any of its mobile products that infringe two Motorola Mobility
.
Although at first this may seem like a huge blow to Apple , it doesn’t immediately translate into any sort of ban on Apple products in Germany.
Motorola Mobility filed two separate cases against Apple , one against the global parent (more…)

versus Samsung saga comes from Sydney, Australia where Federal Court judge Annabelle Bennett advised Apple to reveal their
sales figures in the United States and the United Kingdom to strengthen their case against Samsung. The Galaxy Tab 10.1, whose sales are put on hold in Australia by the court, has been available in the U.S. and U.K. markets since June.
Apple claims that the launch of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia would considerably (more…)

As you may already know, Apple and Samsung are at each other’s throats lately.
, Samsung countered
, which prompted Apple to amend its complaint against Samsung to include more Samsung models and
.
in the European Union, which was later withdrawn.
now reports that Samsung is using an interesting strategy against Apple ‘s preliminary injunction request.
Ever since Apple started to assert the design of the iPad against other manufacturers, (more…)

As if there wasn’t enough news in the past couple of days, today
. The three patents, HTC claims, are violated by the
line of products.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware seeks to halt Apple ‘s importation and sale of infringing products in the United States. It also seeks compensatory damages, triple damages for willful infringement and other remedies.
The action recommended by HTC is certainly harsh, but is more or less (more…)

, 
, which had raised a lot of controversy.
 regularly tracks your iOS device and records the co-ordinates along with timestamp in a hidden file.
The controversy landed Apple into trouble as they were investigated by privacy regulators in South Korea, France, Italy and Germany.
At that time,
as reported by security researchers. Apple also confirmed that it had never done so and had no plans to ever do so. But Apple admitted that it could (more…)