Five years after Twitter founders Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone filed the application, the government granted issued a shiny new patent to the two cyber-inventors on Tuesday. Their invention? Twitter, of course.
While Samsung has been tight-lipped about the new Galaxy S IV it will unveil tomorrow, they've been especially busy in recent weeks and months filing phone-related trademarks, brand names that maybe give us a peak inside the products they're planning to bring to market.
About that jury decision that found Samsung owed Apple over $1 billion for patent infringement, the judge on the case has decided to scrap nearly half of that—for now.
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Samsung has won the latest round of its neverending patent war with Apple — and at just the right moment in its cultural ascendance, giving the Korean gadget giant another notch on its "better-than-Apple" belt.
The legal war between Samsung and Apple is going really well and they're both behaving like civil, reasonable adults. Ha, no, not really. Apple just threw a tantrum because they were ordered to tell Samsung a bunch of secrets that could potentially help Samsung keep their products on the shelves.
Only because it had to, Apple has complied with a U.K court that didn't appreciate its tone in its apology to Samsung and has revised its formally too sassy sorry-note.
Apple continues to look like a sore loser in its U.K. patent suit loss to Samsung as a judge has ordered Apple to re-write its apology that read more like a diss published on its website last month.
Apple isn't taking its loss to Samsung in U.K. court like an adult, using its enforced apology as another place to mock its gadget-making rival.
A UK court has handed Apple another defeat in one of its many legal fights with Samsung, forcing the iPad maker to prepare ads admitting that their rival did not copy their designs.
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Unsatisfied with the $1 billion settlement a jury awarded in August, Apple has requested a California judge reconsider the winning ruling in their case against Samsung to give Apple almost twice as much, and to enact a wide-ranging ban that could include the iPhone's biggest competitor.
The yoga business can be as cutthroat as any other, and the battle de jour this time is over pants. Specifically, Lululemon is accusing Calvin Klein of having ripped off a signature waistband.
Following their $1 billion legal settlement, Apple listed eight Samsung products they want taken off the market. Now, still unsatisfied, Apple's adding two of Samsung's biggest products to their kill list.
Following its patent lawsuit victory, Apple might want to take your Samsung device off the market, but Samsung has vowed to take "all necessary measures" to prevent that from happening.
Is your smartphone in danger of being taken off the market? You can find out now as Apple has listed the Samsung devices it wants banned from the U.S. market following its sweeping legal victory over the South Korean electronics manufacturer.
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The court has reached a verdict in the Apple Samsung patent trial after just one day of deliberation.
Right in the middle of its design patent lawsuit fight with Apple, Samsung has released a new tablet that looks different from an iPad, but not different enough—at least by Apple's standards.
A happy ending for the patent war Facebook entered with Yahoo earlier this year, with the final settlement including an expanded partnership between the two companies, sources tell AllThingsD's Kara Swisher.
A judge has ruled in favor of Apple in its quest to halt the sale of Samsung's Galaxy tablet, so Apple can make arguably its biggest competition go away for $2.6 million dollars.
The jury has handed Google a major win in its case with Oracle over whether the search giant violated patents by using some of Oracle's code for its Android apps, The Next Web reports.
AOL shareholders must be beside themselves after the company offloaded over 800 patents to Microsoft in a deal worth about $1 billion.
A new surge in patent lawsuits shows that Chicago, not Silicon Valley, is setting the rules for how patents should encourage innovation.
We're starting to think that Apple is nothing but a big, rich bully.
The fanboy blogs are abuzz with thinly sourced reports about what Apple will unveil at next Wednesday's new product party in San Francisco, but after reading some of Apple's recent patent filings, we have one of our own: iPad 3D.
Two new patent-related lawsuits in Germany threaten to block sales of all available iPhone models except for the new 4S. Two new patent-related lawsuits in Germany threaten blocked the sale of all available iPhone models except for the new 4S -- for a few hours.
In the increasingly fierce smartphone patent wars, HTC is an underdog, and now that Apple's successfully won a ban on several HTC phones beginning on April 12, 2012, some wonder if the South Korean company can survive another fight.
In an "exclusive" Reuters reports that Samsung makes Apple's iPhone chips in a Texas plant which is two parts surprising: first, the two companies have been spatting for months over patents and Apple is known mostly for manufacturing its iThings in Chinese factories where labor conditions don't exactly meet American conscience standards.
Team Windows just signed Samsung up for a patent licensing deal. It's also a good reason for them not to use Google's OS
The bill passed as a job creator, it doesn't really do that
But they're being sneaky about it by transferring rights to their partners
The makers of the Wavit Remote claim they patented the technology first
The Korean company is oddly optimistic about a new ban on selling Galaxy smartphones
The patent battle over tablet design is getting weirder and weirder
Apple's competitors seem like they're tired of getting picked on
Motorola's patent portfolio is four times thicker than Nortel's
A very dry topic turns into a Twitter slap-fight between Google and Microsoft
Google just bought over 1,000 patents from IBM, but they'll probably need to buy more
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