HTC may succeed in banning the Apple iPhone and iPad as a judge says that the Asian firm’s patents in its suit against Apple are likely valid.
The hint comes from Judge Thomas Pender of the US International Trade Commission where Apple and HTC are facing each other in a case that could lead to an injunction against the iPhone and the iPad.
Apple has argued in the case that HTC bought the patents just to use against the iPhone maker.
However, Judge Pender has said that that doesn’t have much …

Apple may see another lawsuit thrown its way but it isn’t from another tech company but rather from Hollywood superstar Bruce Willis.
The issue stems from the actor’s extensive iTunes library which he plans to leave to his daughters once he passes away.
According to a report from The Daily Mail, Bruce Willis is considering legal action because current licenses for digital content he downloaded off of iTunes prevent him from bequeathing these content to his family.

“The Hollywood action …

After Samsung lost a massive case against Apple in California, the South Korean company has been vindicated by a win against its rival in Japan.
On Friday, a Japanese judge ruled that Samsung did not infringe on patents Apple said it violated.
In his ruling, Tokyo District Judge Tamotsu Shoji said that “It’s hard to believe the products belong to the range of technologies of [Apple],” Bloomberg reports.
According to the publication, the judge has ordered Apple to pay for the costs of the …

Following the win by Apple in its court case in San Jose, California against Samsung last week, Samsung now wants the Cupertino, California-based firm to pay because of the preliminary injunction enforced on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the US.
As part of the landmark $1.05-billion case Apple won against Samsung, the jury judged most of the Samsung smartphones identified in the case by Apple as infringing products.
However, the jury did not find the Galaxy Tab 10.1 infringing on the US Design …

Samsung has sworn that it will do everything necessary to fight the ban request filed by Apple seeking to stop eight Samsung smartphones from being sold in the US.
The statement from Samsung comes as Apple has recently named the eight Samsung Smartphones it wants to be banned in the US.
Samsung said that it “will take all necessary measures to ensure the availability of our products in the U.S. market.”

Apple on Friday won a landmark case in San Jose, California where a jury awarded the …

Back from an unexpectedly short 21-hour deliberation period, a jury has sided with Apple in its lawsuit against Samsung Electronics in California and awarded more than $1 billion in damages to the Cupertino, California-based iPhone-maker.
The verdict was handed down on Friday at a California District Court and means that Samsung must pay $1.05 billion to Apple. That’s $1,049,343,540 if you must split hairs.
Meanwhile, nothing of the $421 million Samsung asked as damages from Apple in its own …

Apple and Samsung today delivered their closing arguments in a long-running trial between the two consumer electronics powerhouses in San Jose, California.
Hanging in the balance is more than $2.5 billion in damages Apple is asking and a precedent which will have a great effect on the patent system of the U.S. and of industrial design in the whole world.
However, before the courtroom heard the closing arguments of both camps, the jury and District Judge Lucy Koh had to wade through 109 pages of …

A former Apple employee has filed a lawsuit against the consumer electronics giant saying that Steve Jobs himself has guaranteed he will have his job at Apple for life.
According to Wayne Goodrich, he was told of this in a meeting with the cofounder of the Cupertino, California-based iPhone maker back in 2005.
Bloomberg reports that the fired employee is arguing that Apple breached contract and has engaged in unfair business practices with his firing.

“This express promise by Steve Jobs was …

As the Apple and Samsung trial in San Jose, California draws to a close, Apple is arguing in a separate court that the Galaxy Nexus is a product of Samsung copying the iPhone to take market share away from them.
Apple has argued in an appeals court in Washington that the Galaxy Nexus smartphone is copying its Siri voice-controlled personal assistant, Bloomberg reports.
“This was the beat-Apple strategy. This was the top of the line, Cadillac phone they trotted out to compete with the …

An Apple expert has replicated a tablet concept from 1994 to try to discredit the assertion made by Samsung that the concept device is prior art that should invalidate Apple’s design patent on the iPad.
On Friday, Peter Bressler was called to the stand by Apple bringing with him a replica of the Fidler tablet. The Fidler tablet was a project by Roger Fidler for the Knight Ridder company’s Information Design Lab.
 

Roger Fidler with his Fidler tablet prototype and the Apple …