A Japanese court on Friday rejected Apple’s claim that South Korean rival Samsung stole the US firm’s technology for its own products. The Tokyo District Court ruled that Samsung did not infringe on Apple’s patents on its iPhone and iPad computer for some of its Galaxy smartphones and tablet computer,…
SAN FRANCISCO — The judge in the landmark Apple-Samsung case set a December 6 hearing on punitive damages to the US firm for patent infringement and on whether to ban eight Samsung phones in the US market. Judge Lucy Koh said in an order Wednesday she would bypass proceedings on…
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics vowed on Tuesday to take “all necessary measures” to keep its products on US store shelves, in response to Apple’s request for a ban on sales of some smartphones. After winning a $1.05 billion US court judgement in a patent suit last week, Apple on Monday…
South Korea’s Samsung sought Monday to rally employees after a $1.05 billion US court judgment in favor of arch-rival Apple pushed its shares sharply lower amid fears about the fallout in the key American market. Samsung shares tumbled 7.5 percent, the biggest single-day percentage drop the electronics giant has seen…
Apple will seek injunctions against the sale in the US of dozens of Samsung smartphones and tablets, including its Galaxy brand, and could triple the $1bn damages it was awarded in a high-profile patent trial after the jury decided the South Korean company “willfully” infringed its patents . The injunctions…
The mammoth Apple-Samsung patent trial went to the jury Tuesday, setting the stage for a verdict that could have huge implications for the hot market in smartphones and tablet computers. Apple, which accuses the South Korean electronics giant of copying the iPhone and iPad too closely, is seeking damages of…
SAN JOSE, California — The mammoth Apple-Samsung patent trial moved to the jury Tuesday, setting the stage for a verdict that could have huge implications for the hot market in smartphones and tablet computers. US District Judge Lucy Koh began reading instructions to the nine-member jury in San Jose, California,…
The judge in a massive smartphone patent dispute reprimanded Samsung Friday for releasing excluded evidence but denied a bid by Apple to order a verdict in the case. Judge Lucy Koh expressed irritation with Samsung’s releasing to the media of documents she had ruled were not to be viewed by…
Lawyers for Apple and Samsung debated the differences between copying and honest competition as opening arguments were held Tuesday in a huge patent trial involving the two tech giants. Harold McElhinny, a lawyer for Apple in the blockbuster patent trial under way in San Jose, California, told the jury Samsung…
South Korea’s Samsung won a patent battle Monday against US rival Apple, with a British judge ruling that Samsung’s Galaxy tablet was not “cool” enough to be confused with Apple’s iPad. Britain’s high court ruled that the Galaxy tablet made by Samsung, the world’s largest electronics company, did not infringe…