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It’s taken couple of weeks but HTC has responded to Apple’s iPhone patent-infringing claims. In a press release issued today, HTC disapproved Apple’s allegations and confirmed that they’ll “fully defend” themselves in the court room. HTC further said that they try to tackle competition through innovation and emphasized on their ‘technology firsts’ which are as [...]

 
HTC today responded to claims put forth by Apple in its lawsuit yesterday. In a statement filed Taiwan Stock Exchange, HTC has denied all infringements. The statement says “HTC is not only an innovator in mobile technology but also an owner of many patents. We take American and international patent rights protection seriously. We will [...]

 
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 by and [...]

 
The legal battle between Sharp and Samsung that began in 2007 has finally come to an end. Sharp and Samsung have announced to bury the hatchet and move on, which in lawful parlance means settle all ongoing lawsuits and patent infringement disputes in U.S., Japan, Korea and Europe.
The intrinsic financial details are still under wraps [...]

 
Another chapter unfolded in the Apple-Nokia saga. Apple has now complained to the US ITC – government agency protecting unfair trade practices in US that Nokia products infringes on Apple patents and wants to ban all Finnish company’s imported products in the United States.
Both the companies have been entangled in a patent infringement battle since [...]

 
Kodak has filed lawsuits against Apple and Research in Motion (RIM) over their use of patented digital imaging technologies. Kodak has complained to the U.S. ITC to look into their claims and prevent import of devices that infringe on the said patents. In addition to that, Kodak also filed two separate lawsuits against Apple pertaining [...]

 
After suing Apple in Delaware’s District Court, Nokia has knocked the doors of ITC alleging Apple to infringe “virtually all” of its patents related to mobile phones, PMPs and computers.
Nokia has requested the US ITC to probe in the infringing patents, which Nokia believes are key to success for them in areas of UI, camera, [...]

 
Microsoft and i4i have been entangled in a legal battle related to handling of XML files in Office for quite some time. The judgment back in May favored i4i awarding them $200m in damages but it did not halt sales of infringing Word and Office copies. However, yesterday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the [...]

 
So we move one step forward in the TechCrunch-Fusion Garage saga. Creators of JooJoo are expectedly miffed about the fact that TechCrunch is suing them and have confirmed to vigorously defend themselves in the court.
Fusion Garage refutes all the claims made in the lawsuit are “without merit”. You can read the full statement over here [...]

 
It’s early Christmas for the Redmond-based software maker. Microsoft, who was fighting a lost browser battle with the EU Commission for about a decade has finally come to an end. The commission has dropped the antitrust charges and in return Microsoft will offer a browser Choice Screen amongst all OSes (XP, Vista and 7) that [...]

 
It’s game over for Psystar. The U.S. District Judge William Alsup has put a permanent injunction against Psystar banning them from selling unauthorized PCs loaded with Apple’s Mac OS X. The injunction basically blocks Psystar from what it was doing previously but sparred its Rebel EFI software because Psystar did not elaborate what Rebel EFI [...]

 
Here is an interesting piece of news that should supposedly cheer every pirate. Microsoft had filed a lawsuit against pirates in Delhi High Court but the court instead of hearing the case, imposed a fine of Rs. 800,000 ($16,000) on them. The reason for the fine was Microsoft’s apparent abuse of money power and filing [...]

 
The title says it all. Apple has retaliated to the lawsuit filed by Nokia by countersuing them. Apple claims Nokia is infringing on 13 of Apple-owned patents.
“Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours,” said Bruce Sewell, Apple’s General Counsel and senior vice president.
In October, Nokia [...]

 
A perfect timing, I should say. Joo Joo goes on pre-order today and Fusion Garage’s former partners TechCrunch have sued them for Fraud and Deceit, Misappropriation of Business Ideas, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Unfair Competitition and Violatioins of the Lanham Act. The lawsuit was filed yesterday and if we go through the elucidated filing, it [...]

 
Nokia has filed a lawsuit against top mobile LCD makers alleging them for fixing LCD panel prices. The lawsuit was filed on Nov 25 in San Francisco and includes makers like Samsung, LG Display, AU Optronics etc.
Nokia’s lawsuit is more or less similar to AT&T that was filed in October. LCD panel manufacturers fixed, raised [...]