Apple is being sued for allegedly infringing patents related to media playback on its iPhone and iPad devices, a new court filing reveals.
The company suing Apple is EPL Holdings which said that Apple had the chance to license its technology way back in 2002 but it knowingly infringed on the patents instead.
According to EPL and its predecessor Enounce Inc., Apple has violated their 5,175,769 and 7,683,903 both concerning technology which allows different playback speeds of media

Emotions ran high in court on Thursday as the judge handling the Apple and Samsung case in California became irritated with Apple trying fit what she says is an excessive number of witnesses into its remaining allotted time.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh even went as far as saying a lawyer representing Apple can only think that they could enter that number of witnesses in the last few hours of their time in court if he was “smoking

Samsung has argued that it was working on tablets even before the first iPad was launched.
The claim is the latest in the ongoing courtroom battle between Samsung and Apple in California.
In a testimony, Samsung chief designer Jin Soo Kim told the court through an interpreter that the design of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was influenced more by practicality than Apple’s

Apple has disclosed in its ongoing case against Samsung that it approached its partner and rival and advised it to pay licensing fees to use its patents in its smartphones and tablets.
The details about just how much Apple wanted from Samsung for every device it made was entered into evidence by the iPhone maker on Friday in a trial between the two companies in

Apple has just presented a new piece of evidence in its case against Samsung in the form of an internal document from its South Korean rival revealing a detailed comparison between the original Samsung Galaxy S and the Apple iPhone.
Apple’s lawyers on Tuesday argued that the 132-page document clearly show that Samsung went out of its way to copy every single detail of how the iPhone’s software

A survey sponsored by Samsung itself has seemingly hurt its arguments in the ongoing trial between the South Korean company and its rival Apple.
What the Samsung survey revealed to the court was that customers mistook the Samsung advertisement for marketing material made for or by

Famous Mac designer Susan Kare has admitted to the court that she was once fooled by a Samsung phone into thinking it was an Apple product.
The revelation comes from Kare as she took the stand in the ongoing trial between Apple and Samsung in

An unflattering memo from a senior Samsung executive was admitted in the company’s current trial against Apple in California on Monday.
In the memo, Samsung Mobile Communications chief JK Shin was blasting his subordinates for what he says was “a difference of between Heaven and Earth” when comparing the user experiences of Samsung smartphones and the

Apple has presented a new set of evidence against Samsung in the ongoing trial in California and the company argues that its rival has even copied its icons.
In a set of six slides, Apple showed what it argues is Samsung clearly copying how the icons on iOS

Samsung is sure that it will win its on-going patent lawsuit against Apple.
The South Korean electronics giant said with confidence that it “trusts that the jurors” will agree with its case against archrival Apple.
On Monday, both smartphone giants, Apple and Samsung, joined another trial proceeding in one of the largest intellectual property infringement cases in history.
Apple is suing Samsung for accusations pertaining to the duplication of its iPhone and iPad designs, and is …