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  Microsoft has announced that they’ve entered into a patent licensing agreement with Compal Electronics that allows the Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) to use Microsoft’s patents in devices running Android or Chrome OS. Intrinsic details of the agreement are under wraps but Compal Electronics will pay royalties to Microsoft. With Wistron, Quanta and now Compal, [...]

  Microsoft has caught a big Android fish today to pay royalties. Samsung is the latest company that will pay Microsoft royalties for every Android smartphone and tablet sold. This deal makes Samsung seventh Android manufacturer to enter into an agreement with Microsoft. Moreover, both companies have decided to sign a cross-patent licensing agreement that [...]

  Samsung is contemplating to buy a decent chunk of patent portfolio to safeguard itself against the current Apple lawsuit. Bloomberg reports Samsung is in the bidding race with Google and Apple to buy InterDigital Inc.’s patent portfolio and are apparently in private talks with the company. About 8,800 patents are up for grabs which [...]

  HTC might have lost the initial determination in the ITC complaint against Apple but the Taiwanese mobile maker has vowed to “defend themselves.” The US ITC ruled that out of 10 Apple-asserted patents, HTC is infringing on 2 patents. HTC claims they have a strong case for the ITC appeal, even stating that an [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

  Microsoft just announced that they have entered into a patent agreement with HTC. The patent agreement covers all HTC Android phones and under the agreement terms, HTC will pay an undisclosed sum of royalty to Microsoft. This doesn’t look to help HTC’s case with Apple but they can be rest assured about not facing [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

  Microsoft and Amazon have agreed to enter into a patent cross-licensing agreement. With the agreement in place, both companies will have access to patents from a broad range of products and technology. The intrinsic details are kept confidential but Microsoft has confirmed that Amazon will pay them an undisclosed amount as per the agreement. [...]

  Patents do give a hint of what companies are contemplating for us in the future. Here’s a latest patent filed by Sony that envisions of giving us a single universal controller for various type of consoles. The patent says the controller is able to “emulate the controllers of popular game consoles, such as…the PlayStation, [...]

  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 [...]

  Depending on the type of display, touchscreen phones can either give the high sensitivity of capacitive or accuracy of resistive screen. RIM has already applied for a patent to give the best of both worlds and it looks like HTC is following the suit but in a different way. The recent patent application reveals [...]

  Ask a company and they would give rational reasons so as to why one should go with capacitive or resistive touchscreens. But giving this one of a kind to a consumer defeats the advantages other type of screen has to offer. This is why, Research in Motion has come up with a novel solution. [...]

  It looks as if Sony has pulled a similar thing to Microsoft’s Project Natal but with a major difference that the Japanese company’s version uses everyday objects as the controllers. A new patent filed by Sony shows that any three dimensional object in the real world could act as a controller for a PS3 [...]