A Texas company by the name of EON Corporation IP Holdings who recently launched patent infringement lawsuits against Asus and LG Electronics, has now added Apple to their list. In their formal complaint against Apple they boldly stated that "Many of Apple's major competitors in the wireless industry have properly paid for using EON's technology. By this action, EON engages a compulsory process that will require Apple to do the same."
According to The Times of India, The European Commission is set to charge South Korean electronics group Samsung in an antitrust patent case, the European Union's competition chief Joaquin Almunia said on Thursday. The EU competition watchdog is investigating whether Samsung broke EU competition rules by filing patent lawsuits against Apple. "We will issue a statement of objections very soon," Almunia said, referring to the Commission's charge sheet. Yesterday we reported that Samsung had dropped Apple injunctions in Europe in the hopes of averting charges from the European Commission. At the moment, it looks like that was too little too late.
A Company by the name of Digitech Image Technologies based out of Newport Beach California has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. While the formal complaint relating to this case has yet to be made public, Patently Apple has discovered that Digitech has filed similar lawsuits in the past two months against Sony, Toshiba, Motorola, Asus Computer and others with the same common patent. What makes this case noteworthy is that the Digitech is wielding a powerful patent from Polaroid, who beat Kodak in court in 1986 regarding the "instant camera."
Wi-LAN Inc. USA and Wi-LAN Inc. have filed two separate patent infringement lawsuits against Apple in Florida and Texas Courts. Wi-LAN is the first company to be suing Apple over the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 that are specifically noted as using the 3GPP LTE standard.
The Washington Research Foundation (WRF) is suing Apple for the iMac's use of specific radios from Qualcomm-Atheros. According to WRF, Qualcomm-Atheros is an "Unlicensed Direct Infringer" of their radio-related patent portfolio. The formal complaint filed with the Washington Court makes a solid case against Apple and others. WRF has successfully licensed their radio patent portfolio which covers Bluetooth, FM, WiFi, GSM and other radio technologies to the likes of Cisco, Broadcom, Marvel and others. It would appear on the surface that WRF is suing Apple as a means of putting pressure on Qualcomm-Atheros to license their radio-related patent portfolio. Apple was notified of the alleged infringement as far back as 2005.
Depending on how you see it, a Luxembourg Company or Patent Troll by the name Arendi S.A.R.L. is suing Apple for patent infringement on three counts. They've already had some success suing Dell and Microsoft and now they're homing in on Apple. This time around, Arendi is claiming that Apple is infringing on three of their patents yet without specificity. In other words, they're "blanketly" stating that Apple's every product infringes their patents and they'll argue it claim by claim.
A San Jose based Company by the name of Innovation Automation has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple stating that their iCloud product and service infringes upon two of their patents dating back to 2000. It should also be noted that this plaintiff has filed a similar lawsuit against Amazon within the last 24 hours claiming that their Kindle and distribution service "Cloud Player" violates the very same patents used against Apple.
Texas based NovelPoint Tracking (NPT) has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. The Company is claiming that Apple's iPhone 4S and other iDevices are infringing on their 6,442,485 patent titled "Method and Apparatus for an Automatic Vehicle Location, Collision Notification, and Synthetic Voice." There is a definite twist to this case and our report highlights that for you.
Late on Friday, the England and Wales Court of Appeal officially released their full decision regarding Apple's original public statement concerning Samsung not copying their products. A specific segment of this decision carefully analyzes Apple's original misleading statements. The analysis was an eye opener to be sure and we present their surprising revelations verbatim so that there are no talking-head interpretations.
Apple published a joint statement with HTC late last night announcing the settlement of their Android patent dispute more than 32 months after it started. Apple and HTC announced a broad ten-year licensing agreement that settles all of the lawsuits between the companies around the world.
A US court has ruled that Apple should pay damages to a Connecticut-based company because its FaceTime video chat tool infringed the firm's patents. VirnetX was awarded $368.2 million. The sum is about half the amount VirnetX had originally demanded and will only cause a small dent in the iPhone-maker's strong balance sheet. But the ruling could have more serious consequences if VirnetX carries out a threat to block the further use of its innovations in Apple's products. In fact, VirnetX has just filed another lawsuit Against Apple this morning and we covered it in our report titled "Apple Sued for VPN On-Demand Functionality in Mountain Lion. Apple said it had no comment to make on the case. Report Update Feb 27. 2013
Delaware VirnetX and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) have jointly filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. The Plaintiff's state that most of Apple's mobile devices such as the iPhone that connect to Mountain Lion supporting the VPN On-Demand functionality infringe on four of their patents. Should VirnetX be taken seriously? Most certainly, as the company has just won their case against Apple concerning FaceTime infringing their patents.
