Samsung wants Apple's source code for the iPhone 4S firmware so it can see if
it trespasses on three Samsung wireless 3G standard-essential patents.
The move is part of an attempt to get the iPhone 4S outlawed in Australia.
Samsung told the Australian court that banned its own Galaxy Tab 10.1 from
the country pending trial that it also wants copies of the subsidy deals
Apple signed with Australian carriers Vodafone, Telstra and Optus to see if
Samsung is in any way frozen out.
Apple has denied any patent infringement and claims to be using the IP under
the Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory doctrine via its chip purchases
from Qualcomm, which has a license. Patent holders can't double-dip.
Samsung claims it doesn't apply to Australia and that Apple has refused to
license the widgetry directly. Apple lawyers retorted that Samsung's
participation in the European T... (more)
District Court Judge William Alsup Wednesday postponed Google's
billion-dollar-plus trial for allegedly infringing Oracle's Java patents and
copyrights in Android that was tentatively set to start October 31. No new
date has been scheduled.
Judge Alsup previously warned that he might have to vacate the date
reportedly to hear a murder trial that starts October 24 and could run until
January or February but now he's told Oracle and Google's lawyers that he
might shift their case to another judge.
Complaining that he's never been so overworked in the 37 years of his
professional ... (more)
The latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion focuses on the impact that
mobile devices and applications are having on enterprises. We specifically
examine what steps businesses can take to better manage mobile applications
and develop their own versions of enterprise app stores.
The skyrocketing popularity of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets
has, on one hand, energized users, but on the other hand, it has caused IT
and business leaders and CIOs to scramble to support these new clients
productively and safely.
In order to explore how enterprise app stores are part of the... (more)
Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold and his giant Intellectual Ventures
patent troll sued Motorola Mobility Thursday morning in federal court in
Delaware for infringement.
It says MMI refused to take out a license after negotiations that started in
January.
It charges violation of six patents and wants an injunction and damages.
Microsoft and Apple are also suing MMI for patent infringement.
The patents, which about 17 Motorola phones, including of course Android
models, are supposed to tread on, sound pretty basic, covering stuff like
"File Transfer System for Direct Transfer... (more)
With his passing just six weeks after stepping away from his role as CEO of
Apple, Steve Jobs has made Wednesday, October 5th, 2011, one of those days
that many of us will remember for the rest of our lives - a day when someone
whose shining brilliance and persistence brought him victory after victory
throughout the past four decades. The only thing that beat him, and even that
took seven years, was pancreatic cancer.
In the interests of full disclosure, I should say right away that the same
major surgical procedure Jobs had in July 2004, called a
pancreaticoduodenectomy (or "Whi... (more)
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