Ericsson’s patent dispute with Apple continues to grind forward, with the Swedish company asking a Taiwanese company thought to be an Apple supplier to produce documents that could be relevant to its court case. Simplo Technology has been asked to produce the names of any…
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Following up on lawsuits in the U.S., a dispute between Ericsson and Apple over royalty payments has now moved also to Europe.Ericsson has filed three suits in Germany, the U.K. and the Netherlands against Apple products, which the telecommunications equipment maker claims use 2G and…
Read MoreThe possible acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent of France by Finland-based Nokia would bring together complementary patent portfolios and increase their scale against larger global competitors, analysts said Tuesday. Nokia’s patents primarily cover technology used for communications between smartphones and cell towers equipped with base stations that…
Read MoreSamsung Electronics is about to find out just how costly its four-year patent fight with Apple has been. Each side spent hundreds of millions of dollars in legal bills to answer this fundamental issue — what’s the value of a single feature in a smartphone…
Read MoreApple has sued Ericsson, arguing that the Swedish company is charging too much on royalties that are not “essential” to industry cellular standards. Apple and wireless technology company Ericsson have ramped up their ongoing fight over royalties and patents. Apple on Tuesday filed a lawsuit…
Read MoreThe tech giants finally relinquish their hold on the highly-coveted technology rights, possibly marking the end of a patent fight between Android phone manufacturers and competitors. Apple and other high-profile tech companies sold 4,000 smartphone patents for $900 million to a clearinghouse, the patents’ new…
Read MoreXiaomi Corp. became the biggest smartphone seller in China without an extensive — or expensive — collection of patents. That low-cost approach is now backfiring as accusations of technology infringement stall its global push. Ericsson AB sued Xiaomi in India, saying the smartphone maker hadn’t…
Read MoreThe Delhi High Court in an interim order has restrained Xiaomi as well as online e-commerce site Flipkart from selling in India handsets of the Chinese mobile maker that run on the technology patented by Ericsson. The court has also restrained Xiaomi or its agents…
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