Posts tagged “The Register

Deja sue as Apple starts new litigation against Samsung

Posted on 14 February 2012

Here’s a little litigation déjà vu. It seems Apple will be keeping the lawyers on for a little bit longer, adding a new round of patent litigation against Samsung to the unsurprising appeal of last year’s case. In the United States Apple has filed new patent infringement claims, this time the focus is on the the Galaxy Nexus, the newest of the Nexus series and the Ice Cream Sandwich flagship phone. Filed in the District Court for the Northern District of California on Thursday last week, Apple is seeking “a preliminary injunction regarding Samsung’s new Galaxy Nexus, which infringes multiple key Apple patents, is essential to prevent immediate and irreparable harm to Apple”. The patents in question are: United States Patent No 5,946,647 - dubbed the ‘data tapping’ patent,…

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Is Steve Jobs the self-appointed lifeguard of the patent pool?

Posted on 3 May 2010

A short email reply sent by Steve Jobs to Hugo Roy from FSF Europe+ sends a clear message that Apple and a group of other software and hardware patent holders are gearing up to target the FLOSS+ community. Roy wrote an open letter to Steve Jobs dated 30 April 2010 that discussed open video standards. He also emailed a copy of the letter to Jobs directly. Jobs replied with this: All video codecs are covered by patents. A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other “open source” codecs now. Unfortunately, just because something is open source, it doesn’t mean or guarantee that it doesn’t infringe on others patents. An open standard is different from being royalty free or open source. Looks like it’s a bad time for…

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