intellectual property

Apple-Samsung Case Muddies Future of Innovation – NYTimes.com: Oh boy, this is gonna get ugly. Especially if you are in the habit of ripping off other companies technology. Samsung, just got smacked down hard. A $1B verdict is just the beginning. Apple will of course, try to get treble damages for “willful” infringement of Apple’s technology. But the $1B is only the beginning. On September 20, the hearing (resumes) related to an injunction of the…

Apple, Samsung, Kodak, Imation: Intellectual Property – Businessweek: Here you go with a huge patent war. Smartphones, iPads and more. Apple has been trying to injoin Samsung from sales of Galaxy product line. No injunction yet, but Apple is winning so far in the USA. Kinda. This law suit will be telling. In the meanwhile the Apple-Samsung war is being fought across the globe. In Germany this week, Apple lost miserably and was ordered to make a public apology….

The Associated Press: Yahoo, Facebook strike patent truce, ad alliance:“Yahoo’s legal assault had exposed Facebook’s vulnerability to patent claims as it prepared to complete the biggest initial public offering of stock by an Internet company.” So Facebook had to go out and build its own war chest of patents: 750 here, 650 there. Now the law suit goes away and everybody’s making nice. “Facebook insulated itself by buying 750 patents from IBM Corp. for an undisclosed amount…

June 28, 1846: Parisian Inventor Patents Saxophone | This Day In Tech | Wired.com: Wired. This day in Tech.It was a great day, June 28, 1846 with a great sound: the Sax. Even then, coming up with a great idea was no guarantee that you’d make money at it. ‘via Blog this’

Cree News: Cree and SemiLEDs End Patent Litigation: It looks like Cree has won this round. The settlement says that SemiLEDs won’t sell in the USA and will pay a one-time infringement settlement. Infringement suit and counter suit are all settled. This stops the infringed LED imports into the USA. It is unclear how this related to trade around the world. One would expect Cree to jump a bit in trade, up 6-8% over a…

Patent wars: Apple wins injunction against sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab in US | Digital Trends: Apple wins the injunction (USA) to stop Samsung from selling the old Galaxy. Picture is perfect, serious arm wrestling going on here in the USA and globally. This is a Design Patent infringement. It really looks like the iPad. The other ongoing lawsuits are about design patents. As Google and Microsoft build their arsenal of patents, there will only be…