This year we have seen a lot of lawsuits filed especially in the Gadget arena. Restless fights between apple Samsung Nokia HTC Motorola hovered round the clock. However, Google's Android is still away and is safe far away from these patent infringements.
A summary to show when, where, and what happened?
28-03-2011
Apple Wins Patent filed against Nokia
Earlier Nokia had file a lawsuit against Apple claiming that Apple used its technology in the iPhone and iPod, infringing on their patents Finally the U.S. International Trade Commission, rejected Nokia’s claim. This was a big back drop for the Finnish smart phone makers.
14-06-2011
Nokia, Apple A long term Issue Settled. Apple pays huge.
It was not just now but since September 2009 Apple and Nokia have been equally battling over various patent infringement. Specifics were not revealed, but news reported that Apple will pay a one-time huge royalty.
This is a huge victory for Nokia, and it had a better chance to regain some momentum in the Smartphone market.
10-08-2011
European Union orders ban on Galaxy Phones.
Apple won a major victory against Samsung in one of its patent infringement German court temporarily banned Samsung from selling its flagship Galaxy tablet in the European Nations. However there was an exception and sale was not banned in Netherlands
01-10-2011
Samsung gave a blow to Apple iPhone 4S Sales
Samsung commented that “
Apple has continued to flagrantly violate our intellectual property rights and free ride on our technology. We believe it is now necessary to take legal action to protect our innovation. Specifically, Samsung accuses Apple of two new patent infringements on Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) standards for 3G mobile handsets. W-CDMA is a 3G technology that competes globally with CDMA2000. Some countries heavily use this standard, so Apple's new "global" iPhone is capable of picking up signal from a variety of kinds of networks.”
Apple has continued to flagrantly violate our intellectual property rights and free ride on our technology. We believe it is now necessary to take legal action to protect our innovation. Specifically, Samsung accuses Apple of two new patent infringements on Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) standards for 3G mobile handsets. W-CDMA is a 3G technology that competes globally with CDMA2000. Some countries heavily use this standard, so Apple's new "global" iPhone is capable of picking up signal from a variety of kinds of networks.”
13-10-2011Samsung Tablets Banned in Australia, Apple Wins
Australian court ordered a temporary ban on the sale of Samsung’s latest computer tablet in Australia. This is another legal victory to apple.
19-10-2011
Samsung Sues Apple Over multiple patents
Samsung's new claims concern its patents for
· RACH Message Communication
· Configuring gain factors for uplink service in radio telecommunication system
· Speech output device for data
· Emoticon input method for mobile
04-11-2011
Apple Loses injunction against NT-K (Android Tablet Makers)
Apple sued a file against NT-K Spanish Company. The file said that NT-K copied the design of the iPad and infringed its patent. There were lots of similarities like flat front surface with the rounded corners, and ICONs. Finally the Spanish court finalized that the NT-K Android device did not infringe on Apple's design patent.
Guess what’s next?
NT-K will now plan to counter-sue Apple and demand compensation for stalking their status.
NT-K will now plan to counter-sue Apple and demand compensation for stalking their status.
07-11-2011
Motorola Wins preliminary Lawsuit. Apple Looses again.
A German court in favour of Motorola banned all Apple gadgets with GPRS connectivity - the iPhone, iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, iPad 3G and iPad 3GS. The claim from the German phone makers says that the preliminary injunction is regarding the use of GPRS. The lawsuit is also filed in US, but results are yet to be published.
09-12-2011
Samsung Smartphone sales Re-warps! Apple looses.
Apple had filed a case against Samsung in Australia calming that it infringed the design of IPAD for its Tablet version. AAustralia’s highest court discharged Apple's appeal and revoked the ban on Samsung tablets.
20-12-2011
HTC Sales Banned in US as Apple wins
Apple won a ban against HTC Devices for employing “data tapping patent” – The method by which contact numbers and email IDs are tracked from unstructured data format. HTC has a pilot period until April 19, 2012, However HTC on its statement said that this claim is already fixed.
Please share if I had missed some.
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