The patent battle between Nokia and HTC has come to an end. Nokia on Friday announced the companies have settled all patent litigation, and have entered into a patent licensing and technology… Read more »
Boston University claims that Microsoft, BlackBerry and many other technology companies are violating the same patent it used to sue Apple earlier this summer. Read more »
Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia included a very large side deal over intellectual property. But the deal is more of a legal and accounting shuffle than a game changer in the long-running… Read more »
HTC did not infringe on two of Nokia’s patents, a Mannheim court has found. Nokia had claimed that one of the patents covered app store functionality found in Google Play. Read more »
At a good time for both involved parties, Nokia and Research In Motion have settled all current patent litigation, just in time for RIM to debut BlackBerry 10 devices. Details are… Read more »
In a surprise ruling, a Delaware jury has found that Apple’s iPhone infringed on three patents issued in the early 2000’s. The verdict is the latest incident of a global patent… Read more »
Struggling British chipmaker CSR is selling its mobile business to Samsung in a deal worth $310 million, in what appears to be the latest episode in the ongoing global patent war. Read more »
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute this morning approved specifications for the nano-SIM, adopting a form factor that is 40 percent smaller than the micro SIM Apple introduced with the iPhone 4… Read more »
Google has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft and Nokia and is also tattling on the companies with U.S. regulators, accusing them patent-troll-like behavior. The good thing… Read more »
Nokia brought out its IP artillery in a big way this morning, filing patent-infringement claims against HTC, Research In Motion and Viewsonic in both the U.S. and Germany. The 45 claims… Read more »