Apple has taken the International Trade Commission's month-old decision
finding HTC's Android gismos infringe only one of the patents it asserted and
letting it ship the products while it fixes the problem to the Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC).
The patent-watching Foss Patents blog says Apple quietly lodged the appeal on
December 29.
The blog learned from an Apple filing with the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Illinois in a case against Motorola Mobility
that the ITC's administrative law judge had sided with Apple and found HTC
guilty of infringing Apple's US 6,343,263 real-time API patent but that that
decision had been overturned by the ITC's panel of six commissioners.
Apple's appellate brief isn't publicly available yet but the blog figures
Apple's probably complaining about more than just the real-time API patent
li... (more)
In the case of technology – as with mythology - the whole is often greater
(and more challenging) than the sum of its parts.
The chimera is a mythological beast of scary proportions. Not only is it
fairly large, but it’s also got three, independent heads – traditionally
a lion, a goat, and a snake. Some variations on this theme exist, but the
basic principle remains: it’s a three-headed, angry beast that should not
be taken lightly should one encounter it in the hallway.
Individually, one might have a strategy to meet the challenge of a lion or a
goat head on. But when they conve... (more)
2012 is shaping up to be a challenging year for CIOs as they figure out how
to safely embrace the slew of mobile devices entering their networks.
Smartphones and tablets are seriously threatening the IT status quo, and CIOs
who fail to adapt and get ahead of this technological upheaval risk getting
pink slips and seeing themselves replaced by more agile colleagues.
Clearly, 2012 is the year that organizations of all shapes and sizes must
come to terms with their mobile problem. Here are five serious mobile
challenges CIOs will have to deal with in 2012:
1. BYOD stressing networks... (more)
A Dutch appeals court Tuesday rejected an injunction-seeking Apple bid to
overturn a lower court's decision last August that Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1
isn't a copy of the Apple iPad and doesn't infringe Apple's design rights.
Apple was also denied a preliminary injunction in the United States on a
design-related patent equivalent to its European Community Design IP and is
appealing the decision.
FOSS Patents says the Dutch appeals court, like the US district court,
narrowed the scope of the Apple IP based on prior art and so came to its
conclusion.
Apple got a preliminary injun... (more)
The US International Trade Commission decided on Friday the 13th that
Motorola Mobility's Android-bearing smartphones don't infringe the three
Apple patents Apple claims they infringe.
The decision by one of the agency's administrative law judges is called
preliminary because Apple is likely to insist that it be reviewed by ITC's
panel of six commissioners by May 14.
FOSS Patents blogger Florian Mueller says one of the patents is "essential to
Apple's litigation strategy" and that's US Patent No 7,663,607, the broadest
touchscreen hardware patent Apple has. It used it to get Sams... (more)
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