August 03, 2012
An Apple Inc. marketing executive testified Friday that he was "shocked" when he first saw Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s Galaxy smartphones and tablets, which he said appeared to be blatant copies of Apple's iPhone and iPad, in the first full day of testimony in the patent trial between the tech heavyweights.
August 03, 2012
A federal judge on Friday scolded Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and its attorneys from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP for their "theatrics" in publicly releasing evidence that had been excluded from the closely watched patent trial with Apple Inc., but denied Apple's request for severe sanctions.
August 02, 2012
Apple Inc. asked a California federal court on Thursday to issue a court order that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has infringed its patents as a sanction for Samsung's counsel's decision to release to the public court-excluded evidence purportedly supporting the company's position that it did not copy Apple's iPhone.
August 01, 2012
The judge overseeing the high-stakes patent trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is a comparative rookie to the federal bench, but her years of experience as a patent litigator include representing a company that sued Apple for patent infringement and a landmark Federal Circuit case.
August 01, 2012
Quinn Emanuel managing partner John Quinn on Wednesday defended his decision as Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd's attorney to publicly release evidence that had been excluded from the company's patent trial with Apple Inc., telling the judge irritated by the move that the release was protected by the First Amendment.
July 31, 2012
Apple Inc. slammed Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on Tuesday for allegedly ripping off the intellectual property underlying its iPhone and iPad instead of creating its own inventions, but Samsung fought back with claims that features of Apple's gadgets had been lifted from Samsung and other companies.
July 30, 2012
The first day of trial in Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s high-profile patent brawl over their popular smartphone and tablet devices concluded Monday in California federal court with the selection of a 10-member jury, including one juror who was involved in a patent ownership dispute.
July 27, 2012
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on Friday urged the California court overseeing its patent infringement dispute with Apple Inc. to toss for the second time Apple's objections to how the jury is instructed to compare the appearance of the company's phones.
July 27, 2012
With the closely watched patent trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. set to kick off Monday, tech giants including Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. have asked the court to keep details of their patent licensing agreements with Samsung under wraps at the trial.
July 27, 2012
The lucrative U.S. market for smartphones and tablets will be on the line when Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. square off beginning Monday in a closely watched intellectual property trial that hinges less on the technology behind the gadgets than on whether Samsung copied the look and feel of Apple's devices.