by AppleInsider | Jan 15, 2019 | FaceTime, Patent lawsuits, Patent Trials, VirnetX
Apple must pay VirnetX $440 million after an appeals court upheld an earlier judgement in favor of the patent holding company, reports Reuters. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today denied Apple's appeal of a 2016 verdict that awarded VirnetX...
by AppleInsider | Jan 7, 2019 | Patent lawsuits, Patent Trials
Back in August, a California jury awarded Canadian patent holding company WiLan $145.1 million in an ongoing dispute with Apple after the iPhone was found to have infringed on two WiLan patents related to wireless communications technology. Apple won't be paying...
by AppleInsider | Jun 21, 2018 | lawsuit, Patent lawsuits, Patent Trials, Qualcomm
Apple today filed petitions with the United States Patent and Trademark Office challenging the validity of four Qualcomm patents amid an increasingly vicious legal battle, reports Bloomberg. Apple is aiming to get the USPTO to cancel the four Qualcomm patents, arguing...
by AppleInsider | May 15, 2018 | lawsuit, Patent lawsuits, Patent Trials, Samsung
Apple and Samsung are back in court this week for a damages retrial that will determine just how much Samsung has to pay Apple for infringing on Apple design patents. Samsung was found guilty of violating the patents back in 2012, but the two companies have been...
by AppleInsider | May 1, 2018 | Patent lawsuits, Qualcomm
Following a legal battle that's been ongoing between Apple and LTE chipmaker Qualcomm since early 2017, the latter company today announced an initiative aimed at defusing tensions with Apple. Specifically, Qualcomm says it will "broaden" its use of a lower-cost...
by AppleInsider | Nov 30, 2017 | lawsuit, Patent lawsuits, Qualcomm
Qualcomm today announced that it has filed three new patent infringement claims against Apple, accusing the Cupertino company of violating a total of 16 Qualcomm patents with its most recent iPhones, including the iPhone X. Most of the patents in question cover...
