As we reported yesterday, Samsung was dealt a blow in the German courts under their competition law. Whilst Apple gains from the injunction against Samsung’s selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1, the …

Apple, Inc., may have millions or billions in assets, but when one company spends $100,000,000 – yes, that’s $100 million – on a legal action that is such a minor patent issue that the defendant will need less than 48 …

Even as Apple is highly dependent upon Samsung to provide chips used in Apple mobile devices, Apple’s quest to ban Samsung’s own products continues with 10 injunctions just filed in Europe. Apple accuses Samsung of violating Apple patents in 10 …

The fact that Microsoft just issued a patents lawsuit ultimatum to Motorola and to Barnes and Noble today comes as little surprise: Microsoft seems to sue almost as often and extensively as Apple does. What also isn’t surprising is that …

The mobile industry headlines for 22 December are bursting at the seams with product updates, patent suits (again – still), forecasts and announcements. Let’s not waste time and just get to it, shall we?

Apple’s Continuing Legal Set-Backs

Few are those in …

Today’s round up of bits and bytes, trivia and head-shaking mobile phone news starts us off with a new paradigm. Hopefully, the minimum standard of human intelligence will improve ways to spend money.

What? Lie?

Anyone who has spent any time in …

An interesting new patent was published last week detailing how an environmentally friendly mobile phone could be made from bamboo featuring a nanotech coating.

The patent, filed June 2006, shows how the phone would have a full range …

A newly published patent application assigned to Microsoft provides a unique insight into what the Zune Phone interface might look like. The patent, filed on June 16th 2006 and published on 12th April 1007, covers Tile Space User …

A patent document published earlier this year details an interesting PDA device with a tiny mobile phone housed inside. The phone can be removed and used as a stand alone device with its own battery source.

The device …

Yet another Google Phone patent has emerged today, this time detailing a method for a cell phone to retrieve and display data from the internet without using a mobile browser.

The patent is complex so you may wish …