Authorities have charged and arrested Paul Ceglia, the man who has sued Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg claiming he owns half of Facebook.
Authorities are charging Ceglia, 39, of trying to defraud Facebook by falsifying documents and destroying evidence.
He faces a charge each for wire fraud and mail fraud which could land him 40 years in prison if proven guiolty.
The man was arrested at his Wellsville, New York home on Friday as authorities filed a 13-page complaint against him at …

Samsung has won another battle against Apple this time in a Dutch court which ruled that the South Korean tech powerhouse does not infringe on Apple’s patent covering the pinch-to-zoom feature.
According to the court in The Hague, Netherlands, with Samsung products including Galaxy smartphones and tablets, Samsung “does not infringe the claims that Apple has made,” Reuters says.
The win marks successive losses for Apple regarding the pinch-to-zoom feature and patent.
Last year, Apple also …

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has rejected all twenty claims that cover Apple’s “rubber-banding” patent which was used by the iPhone-maker against its recent successful lawsuit against Samsung Electronics in California.
The rejection comes to light via Florian Mueller of Foss Patents who first published a blog about the rejections.
The patent, officially titled “List scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display” (US Patent Number …

AMC Networks and Dish Networks have revealed that they have settled resulting to the return of AMC programming to Dish broadcast.
As part of the settlement, Dish will pay AMC $700 million in cash for a multi-year agreement to carry AMC cable channels AMC, IFC, WE tv, Sundance channel and Fuse.
The resumption of the broadcast of the AMC channel by Dish starts today, October 21, on channel 131.
Meanwhile, IFC, Sundance and WE tv will resume broadcast on Dish on November 1.

$80 million of the …

Apple is being forced to reveal to the world one if not its biggest secret: how much profit the company makes on each iPhone.
Judge Lucy Koh of the US District Court of San Jose has ordered Apple to bare product-specific (read: iPhone-specific, iPad-specific, etc.) information including profit margin.
That’s telling the company to say exactly how profitable the iPhone is per unit.
In a filing on Wednesday, Judge Koh denied Apple’s motion to seal or redact certain information from its …

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of internet commerce giant Amazon, has also had it with patents wars just like many people have.
In an interview with British publication Metro, he called on governments to reform their patent laws to stop the proliferation of patent lawsuits in the industry.
Bezos told Metro: “Patents are supposed to encourage innovation and we’re starting to be in a world where they might start to stifle innovation.”
“Governments may need to look at the patent …

Samsung has filed a motion on Monday adding the recently-released iPhone 5 to its suit against Apple in California.
In a filing to a case being handled by United States Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Samsung contends that the iPhone 5 violates two Samsung UMTS standards patents and six features patents.
In their filing, Samsung said: “On September 18, 2012, Samsung informed Apple that it expected to seek leave to …

LG Display has filed a lawsuit in South Korea alleging Samsung Electronics of infringing patented technology covering Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) displays, a new report reveals.
According to the Yonhap News Agency, LG Display filed a lawsuit against its largest rival in the display manufacturing business on Thursday.
The development was announced by LG at an emergency press conference in Seoul where it said Samsung products violated its patents on OLED display, Yonhap said.
The move …

Motorola and Samsung have both won another battle over Apple this time in Germany.
On Friday, a German court sided with the Android smartphones makers over Apple in a case involving technology used in touchscreen displays.
According to The Associated Press, the Mannheim state court dismissed Apple’s case against Motorola and Samsung that alleged both manufacturers to have infringed on Apple patents on touchscreen technology.
Furthermore, the report noted that “The Mannheim state court’s …

Apple will be asking for thrice the amount a jury has awarded it in damages in its fight against Samsung in California, a new report says.
Citing “multiple legal sources,” The Korea Times reports that Apple will be asking US Federal Judge Lucy Koh to award it $3 billion.
Apple last month won $1.05 billion in damages against Samsung as a jury found most of its points in the case valid and judged Samsung as having committed “willful infringement” of Apple patents.
Judge Koh has the …