Tag archive: patent infringements

Apple might have just been awarded the patent to rule all other mobile patents, and made all future legal battles more interesting. As of this morning Apple is officially the only company that is allowed to unlock a touchscreen device by using a sliding motion. We see this used on Apple devices as the familiar “slide to unlock” screen, but almost every other touch screen phone or tablet on the market currently use some form of sliding to unlock… Read More

Spotify has been available for a measly two weeks and it’s already getting its first taste of patent litigation. PacketVideo says that Spotify is infringing on its claims over streaming music. The San Diego-based company that launched more than 10 years ago and was one of the first to enable streaming video on mobile platforms. While once one of the leaders of streaming, PacketVideo only has the right to file such litigation because it bought… Read More

Location service vendor Skyhook filed two lawsuits against Google, claiming the search giant infringed patents and interfered with contracts it signed with Motorola and another company. Skyhook said the search giant’s Google Location Service violated four of its location technologies patents. Skyhook's XPS technology maps the location of 250 million Wi-Fi access points. Skyhook claims that Google licensed the technology in 2005 – and… Read More

It has been a tough month for Apple.  Once the David, fighting off the corporate goliaths, Apple has itself become a goliath, and it has the lawsuits and anti trust inquiries to prove it. Today Nokia joins the growing list of companies that have an axe to grind with Apple, by filing a patent infringement lawsuit against the Cupertino company over technology in the iPhone and the iPad. According to Bloomberg, the patents relate to enhanced… Read More

After shouting that everybody needs to get along in the back seat or it’s coming back there, the International Trade Commission is pulling over the car and doing just that. On Wednesday, the commission announced that it has opened an investigation into whether the technology used in BlackBerry and Apple smartphones infringes on patents held by Eastman Kodak. Kodak filed patent infringement lawsuits against both companies back in January, but… Read More

Basically, SCO claims that the open-source Linux operating system infringes on the intellectual property developed for Unix. If the claims were to hold up in court, the business model of providing “open” software, closely associated with Linux, could be broken. The letter, sent on May 12 to Fortune 1,000 companies and 500 other global concerns, fired a shot across the bow of the Linux user community, which reacted with angry… Read More