Back in November, US court Judge Paul Grewal found that Samsung executives and few other people managed to get a look at the legal report that were confidential and marked for “Attorney Eyes Only.” Not only the court order was violated but Samsung along with its legal firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP could […]
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Korean court rejects Samsung’s request to ban iPhone and iPad
Samsung faced a major setback today as the South Korean court rejected Samsung’s bid to ban sales of Apple products in the country. Samsung claimed Apple products like iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and iPad 2 infringed three of their patents but the Court differed with the accusation as they gave a clean chit to Apple […]
Jury awards $290 million to Apple in retrial case
The jury in the US case back in August last year awarded Apple a sum of $1.05 billion in damages but judge Lucy Koh reduced the awarded damages by $450.5 million citing a miscalculation on part of the jury. A retrial was ordered and a new jury has now given their decision – Samsung has […]
Google, Samsung and others get sued by Apple-owned consortium
Rockstar, a consortium owned by Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry, Ericsson and Sony has sued Google, Samsung and six other companies for infringing Nortel patents, which the consortium bought. The consortium has filed lawsuits against Google for its Android OS and even against Google’s partners like Samsung, HTC, Huawei, ZTE, LG, Pantech, Asustek since they manufacture devices […]
Obama administration upholds ITC ban against Samsung
Samsung’s last hope to overturn the ITC import and sale ban was shattered today as the Obama administration failed to veto the original decision. US Trade Representative confirmed that he decided to keep the ban in effect “after carefully weighing policy considerations…advice from agencies and information from interested parties”. While the import ban is demoralising […]