Despite giving the chief executive officers, Tim Cook of Apple and Kwan Oh Hyun of Samsung, time to settle things off court in a personal chat, it’s not surprising the presiding judge on both companies’ patent infringement cases against each other received a somewhat expected result: moving forward to the jury’s verdict.
US District Judge Lucy Koh had ordered the two CEOs of both companies to try and talk things over outside of court, and she felt “pathologically optimistic” …

APPLE CEO Tim Cook and Samsung CEO Kwan Oh Hyun reportedly talked to each other personally in an attempt to resolve both companies’ legal skirmishes about patent infringements in an out of court settlement.
Yesterday, Bloomberg said an unnamed source reported that the CEOs of Apple and Samsung will hold an allegedly private phone call to try and fix their mobile patents dispute ahead of a decision from a US jury. US District Judge Lucy Koh who oversees their case will be the first to hear …

Facebook has lost a proposed settlement offer to salvage itself from a class action lawsuit that claims the social network failed to agree with members’ rights through its “sponsored stories” ad feature.
US District Judge Richard Seeborg turned down Facebook’s offer because of various concerns, which include an agreement to pay $10 million to charity but does not extend money to the complainants.
Reuters reported that Seeborg said the social networking company and …

While the trial against Samsung has ended and now only awaits a verdict, Apple’s legal struggles look far from over, as Motorola Mobility has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against it to ban iPhones, iPads, iPod Touch and Macs.
Bloomberg reports that Google-owned Motorola Mobility filed a complaint against the Cupertino-based tech giant at the US International Trade Commission (ITC) last week.
Motorola Mobility claims that Apple devices, specifically the iPhone and iPad, infringes …

Google and Oracle have to submit a list bloggers and journalists, whom they allegedly paid over the course of their Java copyrights and patents lawsuit, as ordered by a US District Court judge.
Judge William Alsup told both companies to release the names by Friday next week (August 17), which means the federal court believes one party paid writers to comment and publish articles related to the case’s proceedings.
The order reads,
The Court is concerned that the parties and/or counsel herein …

Eastman Kodak has won two out of ten patents against Apple in a US federal court.
Kodak has planned to sell ten of its technology patents related to previewing digital images as a loophole to save itself from the whip of bankruptcy but Apple had claimed that it originally invented the technology that the imaging service provider owned.
According to Bloomberg, the decision ruled by Manhattan Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper favored two of the ten patents to Kodak, stating that Apple was slow …

Microsoft is seeking an out-of-court settlement on its ongoing patent dispute with Motorola to get rid of a huge legal proceeding parallel to Apple and Samsung.
Both firms’ patent dispute has already been running around for months as Microsoft has alleged that Motorola is illegally utilizing its ActiveSync technology free from royalties.
In retaliation, Motorola is also arguing that Microsoft has used its video and wireless technologies for its Xbox 360 console with no licensing agreement …

Apple and Motorola Mobility have each appealed to a U.S. federal judge, following his June verdict to discard both companies’ patent infringement case.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Posner, of the Northern District of Illinois, dismissed the patent case involving Apple’s suit against Motorola, claiming the Droid and related software devices are breaching on its patents. Conversely, Motorola filed a counterclaim against Apple for the same reason, leaving both firms’ horns pushing …

An appeals court on Friday overturned a preliminary injunction which resulted in a Samsung Galaxy Nexus ban in the U.S. making the flagship “Pure Android” from Samsung and Google available again in the country.
On June 29, Judge Lucy H. Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose granted Apple’s request for a Galaxy Nexus ban in the U.S. a day after she granted another preliminary injunction – also at the request of Apple – against the Samsung …

Apple has filed for a preliminary injunction banning the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus in the U.S., a report says.
The news comes from renowned patents observer Florian Mueller on a post on his blog Foss Patents.
According to Mueller, Apple filed for a preliminary injunction on the Galaxy Nexus on Thursday at the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Furthermore, a new federal lawsuit was filed at the same time as the motion for a ban on the Samsung …