Samsung’s faring a lot better in east Asian courts than it has in the US. A Japanese judge has ruled that the Korean company’s phones and tablets did not violate Apple’s patents, and has ordered Apple to pay all of Samsung’s legal fees. More »
After hearing trade secrets from both Apple and Samsung throughout the court hearings and waiting forever for the jury to make a decision, the verdict finally came in today. Shockingly swift, the jury leveled Samsung and rewarded Apple with a huge victory: Samsung now owes Apple $1.05 billion in damages. Was it unexpected? What do you think happens next? More »
The Wall Street Journal has streaming coverage of the South Korean Samsung vs. Apple verdict return. The highly anticipated verdict came in only minutes ago, setting the stage for the equally hot US version of the verdict to come. More »
The arguments in the Apple vs. Samsung patent showdown jamboree finally ended yesterday. That means we’re finally coming to a resolution—or at least a breather until the appeals process begins. More »
In the other court battle between Apple and Samsung, Apple is accusing the Galaxy Nexus of violating Apple’s “universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system” patent with its Universal Search. Samsung is saying Apple shouldn’t feel threatened by the Galaxy Nexus because the sales of the phone are so “minuscule”. Really. More »
By 1997 E.piphany was a fast growing startup with customers, revenue and something approaching a repeatable business model. Somewhere that year we decided to professionalize our logo (you should have seen the first one.) With a massive leap of creativity we decided that it should it should have our company name and the letter “E” with a swoop over it. More »
The Samsung v. Apple case may finally be coming to a close, with closing arguments for both sides finishing today (finally!), but Apple is still not quite yet out of the legal arena. More »
After endless back and forth between Apple and Samsung attorneys over what the jury should and shouldn’t be told, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has gotten fed up and ordered them to meet face to face and start hashing things out. For real. More »
A 94-page document issued into evidence tonight, in the ongoing debacle that is Apple vs. Samsung, supplies further evidence that Samsung was pea green-eyed with insatiable jealousy over Apple’s super fun phone design, as compared to the less animated and playful Android products. 46 [TheVerge] More »
On day three of the Apple versus Samsung patent lawsuit battle to the death extravaganza, Apple presented some pretty convincing evidence that Samsung copied its trademarked iOS icons. Look at the contacts icon above. OK so maybe Samsung’s icon is a horrible orange color and there are two binder rings instead of many, but it doesn’t take a degree in graphic design to see that Samsung ganked it straight from Apple’s drawing board. Throughout this trial Apple’s done a very good job at showing how Samsung copied its ideas. Maybe it did, maybe it didn’t, but either Apple has very good lawyers or Samsung’s got some ‘splainin to do. Check out CNET for even more icon doppelgangers. [CNET via 9To5Mac] More »
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