(Reuters) – It was the end of a long week in court in the Apple-Samsung legal war, and Samsung attorney John Quinn was trying to block his adversary, Apple attorney Bill Lee, from showing the jury a document. As Quinn made his argument to U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, he slipped in a reference to […]
Apple seeks severe punishment for Samsung lawyer’s actions
(Reuters) – Apple Inc asked a U.S. judge on Thursday to punish Samsung Electronics Co Ltd for a Samsung attorney’s conduct by ordering that the South Korean company has infringed Apple’s phone design patents, according to a court filing. Trial began this week in high stakes litigation between the two companies. Apple sued Samsung last […]
Analysis: Apple’s big enemy in smartphone wars: delay
Last Thursday, Judge Richard Posner in Chicago federal court canceled Apple’s long-awaited trial against Google Inc’s Motorola Mobility division, which makes devices powered by the Internet search company’s Android mobile operating system. The trial had been set to start this week. Then in an order late on Monday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San […]
Jury deals big blow to Oracle in Android case versus Google
In a case that examined whether computer language that connects programs and operating systems can be copyrighted, Oracle claimed Google’s Android tramples on its intellectual property rights to the Java programming language. Google argued it did not violate Oracle’s patents and that Oracle cannot copyright certain parts of Java, an “open-source” or publicly available software […]
Steve Jobs told Google to stop poaching workers
Apple’s Steve Jobs directly asked former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt to stop trying to recruit an Apple engineer, a transgression that threatened one junior Google employee’s job, according to a court filing. The 2007 email from Jobs to Schmidt was disclosed on Friday in the course of civil litigation against Apple Inc, Google Inc […]