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  Microsoft has filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission (ITC) and U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against Motorola for infringement of patents. Microsoft claims Motorola’s Android phones infringes nine of its patents related to “smartphone user experience, including synchronizing email, calendars and contacts, scheduling meetings, and notifying applications of [...]

  Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google because it’s open-source system is infringing Java-related patents. Oracle claims Android infringes seven of its patents because the OS’ stack integrates Java-based object-oriented application framework and core libraries. Oracle who bought Sun Microsystems early this year also alleges that due to the recruitment of former Sun Java [...]

  Nokia’s patent battle with Apple continues as they’ve filed another complaint against Apple for infringing five “important Nokia patents”. Nokia’s complaint now also includes iPad 3G and the patents supposedly infringed by Apple are related to enhanced speech and data transmission, using positioning data in applications and innovations in antenna configurations that improve performance [...]

  Apple has announced that they’ve filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringement of 20 Apple-owned patents. The lawsuit has been filed simultaneously with U.S. ITC and U.S. District Court and claims HTC infringing on iPhone patents related to UI, underlying architecture and hardware. Steve Jobs’ jab at HTC reads as follows: “We can sit [...]

  HTC has a successful run selling phones in European countries including Germany. But the recent developments hint that HTC may have to stop selling their phones if they don’t reach an agreement with IPCom. IPCom filed a case against HTC accusing them of infringing the ‘100 series’ patents which included UMTS related patents used [...]