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Nokia Loses Appeal to Overturn 3G Patent
May 14th 2012 - 16:00 GMT
Nokia has lost an attempt to overturn a ruling that it had infringed on a patent held by Germany based IPCom....more

Apple Offering to Settle Chinese IPad Trademark Dispute
May 7th 2012 - 11:28 GMT
Apple has offered to settle its ongoing iPad trademark dispute in China, although the two sides are still negotiating over the price Apple will have to pay Proview Technology for the brandname....more

Motorola Mobility Wins Injunction Against Microsoft in Germany
May 2nd 2012 - 15:24 GMT
Motorola Mobility has been granted a court injunction blocking the sale of several Microsoft products in Germany, although a US court has blocked Motorola from enforcing a German ban until it hears a related case next week....more

Nokia Files Patent Lawsuits Against HTC and Research in Motion
May 2nd 2012 - 14:17 GMT
Nokia says that it has filed claims in the United States and Germany alleging that products from HTC, RIM and Viewsonic infringe a number of its patents....more

Chinese Authorities Siding With Proview over IPad Trademark Dispute
April 24th 2012 - 16:49 GMT
A Chinese government official has said that Apple does not own the iPad trademark in China, and that Proview (Shenzhen) still owns the rights to the brandname on the Chinese mainland....more

Apple Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over In-App Purchases
April 17th 2012 - 18:41 GMT
Apple has failed in an attempt to dismiss a class-action lawsuit which is seeking compensation from the company over parental controls that had allowed children to buy additional services from iPhone apps....more

Cox Communications Sues Sprint Nextel in Patent Dispute
April 17th 2012 - 17:50 GMT
USA based Cox Communications has filed a lawsuit seeking to have twelve patents held by Sprint Nextel declared invalid. The move comes after Sprint sued Cox last year for infringing the patents....more

AT&T Sued for Failure to Block Stolen Smartphones
April 13th 2012 - 09:43 GMT
USA based AT&T is facing a potential class-action lawsuit which accuses the company of profiteering from cellphone theft....more

Motorola Mobility Blocked from Seeking Order Banning Microsoft Sales in Germany
April 12th 2012 - 17:21 GMT
A court in the USA has ruled that Motorola Mobility cannot ask a German court to impose a ban on the sales of Microsoft products in Germany, until the two companies settle a contractual dispute....more

Apple Sued for Collusion Over E-Book Pricing for Its IPad Tablets
April 11th 2012 - 17:06 GMT
Apple and several major US book publishers are being sued by the USA's Department of Justice over the pricing of e-books sold via Apple's platform....more

Microsoft Boosts Patents Portfolio in $1 Billion Deal with AOL
April 9th 2012 - 15:18 GMT
Microsoft is paying just over US$1 billion to buy some 800 patents and applications from AOL and is also gaining access to the remaining 300 patents that AOL will be keeping....more

US Mobile Networks Sued in SMS Shortcode Conspiracy Claims
April 9th 2012 - 14:37 GMT
The US mobile networks are being accused to setting up five-digit short codes to allow cross-network premium rate services not to make things simpler for marketing companies, but to generate "supra-competitive profits"...more

Pendrell Buys Up Batches of Wireless Patents
April 4th 2012 - 11:10 GMT
Patent holding company, Pendrell says that -- via its subsidiaries -- it has acquired more than 1,300 patents in five separate transactions. ...more

Network-1 Announces Settlement of Patent Litigation With Motorola Solutions
April 3rd 2012 - 18:34 GMT
Network-1 Security Solutions says that it agreed to settle its patent litigation against Motorola Solutions pending in a United States Court, for infringement of Network-1's Remote Power Patent (U.S. Patent No. 6,218,930)....more

European Commission Investigating Motorola Mobility for Patent Licensing Infringements
April 3rd 2012 - 15:31 GMT
The European Commission has opened two formal antitrust investigations against Motorola Mobility to find out if the company abused its patents in contravention of the principle of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licening to competitors....more

Six Handset Manufacturers Sued Over Patent Infringement
April 1st 2012 - 16:14 GMT
Six mobile phone manufacturers are being sued by Graphics Properties Holdings (formerly Silicon Graphics) over allegations that they infringe its patents....more

Nokia Says It Will Block Apple's Nano-SIM Proposals if Approved by ETSI
March 29th 2012 - 10:45 GMT
Nokia has said that it will not be cooperating with a proposal from Apple for a so-called Nano-SIM card that is being discussed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute....more

Turkcell Files Lawsuit Against MTN Over Iranian License
March 29th 2012 - 09:05 GMT
Turkey's Turkcell has confirmed that it is suing South Africa's MTN Group over the disputed Iranian mobile license tender....more

T-Mobile Sued Over NFC Patent Infringement Allegations
March 27th 2012 - 18:46 GMT
T-Mobile USA is facing a patent infringement lawsuit after On Track Innovations (OTI) claimed that the mobile network is selling NFC enabled smartphones that infringe its NFC patent....more

Australian Regulator to Seek Orders Against Apple for IPad "4G" Claims
March 27th 2012 - 09:39 GMT
Apple is facing a potential lawsuit in Australia over the claims that its latest iPad can support 4G networks in the country....more

Comba Telecom Sues to Revoke Antenna Patents Held by CommScope
March 22nd 2012 - 08:51 GMT
Comba Telecom is suing antenna manufacturer, Andrew and its parent company, CommScope, seeking to invalidate eight of Andrew's patents covering remote electrical tilt (RET) antennas....more

Broadcom Granted Permanent Injunction Against Emulex in Patent Infringement Suit
March 19th 2012 - 16:33 GMT
Broadcom says that it has been granted a permanent injunction against certain products of Emulex Corp previously found to infringe two Broadcom patents: U.S. Patent Nos. 7,058,150 and 7,471,691....more

Patent Troll Sues Over Emoticons in Mobile Phones
March 17th 2012 - 08:56 GMT
A patent holding company, Varia Holdings LLC has sued both Samsung and Research in Motion for infringing its patents for typing an emoticon -- such as an :( -- in a mobile phone....more

AT&T Loses Court Case Over Throttling Mobile Download Speeds
March 14th 2012 - 11:11 GMT
USA based AT&T has lost a small-claims court case that awarded damaged to one of its customers who claimed that recent changes to the mobile broadband service were a breach of contract....more

MTN Condemns US Legal Action by Turkcell Over Iranian Investment
March 12th 2012 - 16:23 GMT
South Africa's based MTN has condemned Turkcell's attempt to use the threat of a U.S. legal claim to -- as it puts it -- extort money from MTN....more

ZTE 4th Globally in Smartphone Patent Applications
March 8th 2012 - 14:28 GMT
ZTE says that it now ranks fourth in terms of smartphone patents globally, with 972 total applications, ...more

Samsung Sues Apple in South Korean Courts
March 7th 2012 - 18:20 GMT
Samsung Electronics has filed a lawsuit against Apple in South Korea accusing the company of infringing on three of its patents....more

Core Wireless Launches Patent Litigation Against Apple
February 29th 2012 - 18:28 GMT
The company is alleging that wireless communications devices sold by Apple include a variety of technologies covered by patents owned by Core Wireless....more

ZTE Sued for Patent Infringement in the USA
February 28th 2012 - 14:22 GMT
ContentGuard says that it has filed a complaint for patent infringement against ZTE in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia....more

Chinese Court Says IPad Sales Can Resume in Shanghai
February 23rd 2012 - 18:11 GMT
Apple has won a Chinese court ruling allowing it to continue to sell its iPad tablets, but the ruling only affects Shanghai so far....more

Nokia WIns Patent Dispute Against IPCom
February 20th 2012 - 19:17 GMT
Nokia says that it has won another round in its long running patent dispute with German patent holding company, IPCom....more

Three US Mobile Networks Sued for Patent Infringement
February 16th 2012 - 19:42 GMT
Patent holding company, Intellectual Ventures has launched a raft of lawsuits against AT&T, T-Mobile USA and Sprint Nextel accusing them of infringing its patents....more

Apple Wins Patent Victory Against Motorola Mobility
February 16th 2012 - 19:23 GMT
Apple has won a patent dispute in Germany against Motorola Mobility over the "slide to unlock" function in many smartphones....more

Proview Technology Seeking Export Ban on Apple IPads from China
February 16th 2012 - 16:11 GMT
The dispute in China over the ownership of the iPad trademark could become more serious, as the Chinese company, Proview Technology is seeking an export ban on Apple iPads until the dispute is resolved....more

Peregrine Files Patent Infringement Actions Against RF Micro Devices and Motorola Mobility
February 15th 2012 - 12:25 GMT
Radio-frequency (RF) integrated circuits vendor, Peregrine Semiconductor has filed a complaint and a lawsuit alleging the infringement of RFICs and switching technology patents by RF Micro Devices (RFMD) and Motorola Mobility....more

Chinese Retailers Withdrawing IPads from Sale in Trademark Dispute
February 13th 2012 - 18:14 GMT
Apple iPads are being removed from sale in Shijiazhuang city, capital of North China's Hebei province after a local court ruled that the product infringes a trademark held by a Chinese firm....more

Apple Sues Samsung (Again) for Patent Infringements
February 13th 2012 - 14:06 GMT
Apple has filed a patent infringement lawsuit as a test case that could impact on sales of Android smartphones in the USA....more

Apple Asks Europe to Clarify Rules on Licensing Essential Patents
February 8th 2012 - 11:20 GMT
Apple has written to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) asking it to reconfirm the principles it lays down for licensing patents declared to be essential to the telecoms industry....more

Nokia Sued by Thai Digital Mapping Provider
February 7th 2012 - 08:28 GMT
Thailand based digital mapping company, GlobeTech has filed a copyright lawsuit against Nokia and its mapping subsidiary, Navteq, accusing them of violating its copyright and seeking punitive damages of US$17.5 million....more

Motorola Ban on Apple Sales in Germany Overturned by Appeals Court
February 3rd 2012 - 19:39 GMT
Apple has secured a temporary suspension of a sales ban that had been imposed earlier in the day after a German court upheld a patent complaint by Motorola Mobility....more