December 18, 2012
A California federal judge on Monday refused Apple Inc.'s bid for a U.S. sales ban on several Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. smartphones found to infringe the company's patents and trade dress, saying Apple failed to establish that certain protected features of the iPhone drove consumer demand for its products.
December 13, 2012
A California federal judge on Thursday declined to rule on a motion by Apple Inc. arguing that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s alleged abuse of the standard-setting process should bar it from asserting its standard-essential patents against Apple.
December 06, 2012
Apple Inc. urged a California federal judge Thursday to permanently ban Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s patent-infringing gadgets and add $535 million to the damages its smartphone rival must pay, calling the $1.05 billion awarded by a jury in August "a slap on the wrist."
December 06, 2012
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on Wednesday filed a redacted version of an Apple Inc. and HTC Corp. patent licensing agreement in the California federal court handling Apple and Samsung's patent battle, a deal it says could undermine Apple's bid for a ban on Samsung sales.
December 05, 2012
The epic patent battle between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will return to a California courtroom Thursday, as Apple fights for more damages and a ban on Samsung smartphones found to infringe its patents, and Samsung seeks a new trial or a reduction of the jury's $1.05 billion verdict.
November 21, 2012
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Apple Inc. to give its smartphone patent adversary Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. a complete copy of its recent settlement with HTC Corp. involving some of the same patents, including the financial terms of the deal, which HTC had objected to disclosing.
November 16, 2012
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. argued Friday that Apple Inc. should turn over the details of its Nov. 11 license agreement with HTC Corp., which it claimed may contain some of the same patents at issue in its own mammoth patent row with the iPhone maker.
November 08, 2012
A California magistrate judge on Wednesday awarded both Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Apple Inc. reduced monetary sanctions for the companies' failure to produce discovery materials in a timely manner, saying attorneys submitted "bare" descriptions of their roles in the dispute during the run-up to the companies' epic patent trial.
November 02, 2012
Apple Inc. on Friday scoffed at Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s demand that Apple disclose what it knew about alleged bias by the jury foreman in the patent case between the companies, telling a California court that any information it might have is irrelevant to Samsung's bid for a new trial.
October 30, 2012
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on Tuesday asked a federal court to compel Apple Inc. to show when it first learned of misconduct by the foreman of the jury that awarded Apple a $1 billion verdict in the patent infringement battle between the companies.