Facebook v. Blackberry
Facebook accuses Blackberry in a federal complaint of violating six patents for instant-messaging software.
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Apple, Samsung Settle Years-Long Dispute Over Smartphone Design
After seven years, the saga is over: Apple and Samsung have agreed to end their battle over whether Samsung copied the iPhone’s design.
Read moreReport: Facebook Shared User Data With Device Makers
People who use Facebook on their smartphones have more reason to be concerned about data privacy following a report that the social media giant struck deals allowing at least 60 device makers to access users’ personal information.
Read moreSnapchat In, Facebook Out Among Teens, Study Finds
More teens say they use social media like YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram “almost constantly,” according to a new Pew Research Center survey released Thursday.
Read moreJury Deliberating With $1B at Stake in Apple-Samsung Trial
Apple went last in closing arguments Friday afternoon as they tried to convince an 8-person jury to award them more than a billion dollars in damages resulting from Samsung’s infringement of three design patents related to the original iPhone.
Read moreSamsung Pushes for Less Costly Award in Fight With Apple
It was Samsung’s turn to call witnesses at day three of the heavyweight patent fight between Apple and Samsung on Thursday. The case, which is in its third iteration at the U.S. District Court, is entirely about damages.
Read moreJudge Admonishes Samsung on Day 2 of Patent Trial
Both sides refined their strategies on the second day of the Apple and Samsung patent trial on Wednesday.
Read moreApple-Samsung Damages Redux Kicks Off in Silicon Valley
In the seemingly never-ending smartphone patent war between Apple and Samsung, both sides delivered opening arguments in a Silicon Valley federal courtroom, this time on how to fairly calculate damages Samsung owes Apple for infringing five of Apple’s patents.
Read moreApple Class Action
An iPhone owner dismissed without prejudice Monday his federal class action accusing Apple computers of intentionally slowing the operating system in older phone models.
Read moreThird Trial Ordered in Oracle-Google Copyright Saga
In a stunning reversal, the Federal Circuit on Tuesday revived Oracle’s $9 billion copyright infringement lawsuit over Google’s Android smartphone platform, sending the long-running case back for a trial on damages.
Read moreSmartphones
Ruling on more than 30 motions Monday, a federal judge partially dismissed, mostly with leave to amend, class claims against Huawei’s and Google’s allegedly defective co-created Nexus 6P smartphone.
Read moreApple Cleared
The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal Monday of a class action accusing Apple of wiretapping, by failing to deliver text messages to people who had switched to other brands of smartphones.
Read moreApple, Samsung Continue Ongoing War Over Royalties
Another battle in Apple and Samsung’s seemingly ceaseless smartphone patent wars played out in front of a federal judge on Thursday, this one pertaining to Samsung’s redesigns following a jury verdict for Apple in 2014.
Read moreConsumers Claim Apple ‘Throttles’ Older IPhones
Apple knowingly releases system software updates that slow down the performance of older iPhones to induce customers into buying the latest model, iPhone users claim in a class action filed Thursday, without telling them that a simple battery replacement will resolve the issue.
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Homeland Security Sued Over Warrantless Tech Searches at Border
Homeland Security officers improperly searched laptops and smartphones without warrants from people entering the country, 10 U.S. citizens and one green card holder claim in a federal class action Wednesday.
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Qualcomm Loses Round 1 in Legal Spat With Apple
A federal judge dealt Qualcomm a major blow Friday by denying its request to block Apple from filing lawsuits internationally while the two tech giants battle stateside over cellphone chipset technology.
Read more9th Circuit Revives Class Action Over ‘Zombie’ Smartphone Cookies
Verizon customers who accused an online ad company of using “zombie cookies” to collect personal data through their smartphones will have a second chance to sue the company as a class, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
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Attorneys Spar in Apple-Qualcomm Antitrust Fracas
At a nearly 3-hour hearing in San Diego federal court on Friday, attorneys for Apple and its contract manufacturers argued why Qualcomm should not be granted an injunction to effectively pause nearly a dozen lawsuits it faces in four countries filed within the last year.
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