Apple has finally scored a win in its never-ending patent battles with Motorola Mobility.
A German judge today found that the iPhone maker did not infringe on a Motorola patent related to wireless technology, according to Florian Mueller’s Foss Patents legal blog.
The patent in question covers 3G/UMTS wireless communications and in tech jargon refers to a “method and system for generating a complex pseudonoise (more…)
Yesterday, we were quite surprised when
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that prevented the sale of 3G iOS devices that infringed on Motorola’s patent.
1. How much royalty is Motorola demanding from Apple for the standard-essential wireless patents?
Apple had tried to use the “FRAND” defense, claiming that the patent was essential to the 3G standard and needed “fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory” terms for licensing it, but had failed to convince the judge last time (more…)
The ITC has given a preliminary ruling that Motorola does not infringe on several of Apple ‘s patents, among them key multi-touch patents.
The plot thickens in the Apple vs Motorola war. To recap, Motorola sued Apple late in 2010, claiming that Apple infringed on 18 of its
. Among those were some essential patents which won a
over in Germany last month. In October of 2010,
, claiming that they violated numerous software patents, including several (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
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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…)
Google has just dropped a bombshell on the mobile phone industry. It has announced that it is acquiring Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash, a 61% premium.
‘, Google’s co-founder and CEO Larry Page has explained why it has decided to buy Motorola.
In 2008, Motorola bet big on Android as the sole operating system across all of its smartphone devices. It was a smart bet and we’re thrilled at the success they’ve achieved so far. We believe (more…)
Couple of days back, a district court in Düsseldorf, Germany had granted
, barring distribution of the product in the entire European Union except for the Netherlands.
reports that Apple has also sued Motorola in Europe, claiming that Motorola Xoom tablet infringes upon the design of Apple ‘s products – read that as
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Back in October last year, Motorola had filed against Apple accusing Apple of infringing upon several Motorola patents for (more…)
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comes with a faster 1 GHz dual-core A5 chip, which can do twice the work of the original
and up to 9 times graphics performance.
According to a report by AnandTech, Apple ’s new A5 System on a Chip (SoC) includes a more powerful PowerVR SGX 543MP2 instead of the PowerVR SGX 535 used in the original A4.
Architecturally the 543MP2 has more than twice the compute horsepower of the SGX 535 used in Apple ‘s A4. Each shader pipeline can execute twice (more…)
