Samsung and Apple both rested their respective cases last week, leaving the weekend to prepare for their closing arguments. Once both sides have given their arguments, the jury will begin deliberating on the alleged patent violations, with a decision expected to be made in the following days. Last week, Judge Koh remained “pathologically… Read more
Apple succeeded yesterday in getting yet another internal Samsung report comparing the iPhone to Samsung’s own Galaxy S series into evidence. This report from 2010 shows Samsung highlighting 126 different aspects of the company’s Galaxy S smartphone line that were considered to need improvement. Samsung is recognizing that Apple’s user experience is… Read more
Day one of the Apple vs. Samsung trial, and Samsung is already off to a bad start. Samsung planned to bring evidence of their prototype F7000 phone (a phone very similar to the iPhone, but planned before the iPhone’s early 2007 launch), but it was rejected. Samsung, in the most intelligent move possible, released the evidence to the public. In a… Read more
Well this is a piece of news that I didn’t really care to see today. Apple has been granted a new user interface patent that covers everything from the camera roll to email to basically anything that you can do on a touch based user interface. And with Apple we know what this means, it’s time for Android manufacturers to break out the aspirin because I… Read more
There’s been a lot of hubbub lately about lawsuits between Samsung and Apple, and Samsung taking away their Universal Search feature on their recently released Galaxy S III. Recently, both Sprint and AT&T Galaxy S III variants have received small updates to the devices that have removed the Universal Search functionality due to patent… Read more
Sprint is throwing its weight around with a new amicus brief filing in the Federal Court overseeing the Apple vs. Samsung patent trial. Sprint sees itself as the “unwitting victim” of the dispute between the two smartphone rivals and while they don’t comment on the case itself, Sprint wants to see these issues resolved with an immediate… Read more
Updated: According to AllThingsD, Samsung and Google are working to “imminently” push out a software fix that works around the “Universal Search” patent that is the main violation behind the injunction. Some not so good news to kick off the Fourth of July as U.S District Judge Lucy Koh has denied Samsung’s request to stay the injunction on the… Read more
Samsung released a statement early Thursday that it will “demonstrate to the court that the Galaxy S III is innovative and distinctive” as Apple claims Samsung violated a pair of software patents. On Tuesday, Apple asked a US district court to temporarily ban sales of the Galaxy S III inside the US right as Samsung gears up to launch the smartphone… Read more
Its that time of day where Apple decides to sue some more of its competition, and today theyve picked Samsung. According to Apple, Samsung is infringing on a unified search patent that they use in Siri. Along with their Siri complaints, Apple also took to the courts and is filing lawsuits because of a second patent infringement. They state that Samsung is… Read more
With last nights *shocking* turn of events as US Customs holds HTC One X and EVO 4G LTE hardware in limbo, Sprint prepares to miss their planned May 18th launch date. In fact, their dedicated EVO 4G LTE page no longer says anything about May 18th or any other potential launch date at this time, it’s been completely scrubbed. Sprint hasn’t… Read more
PhoneDog TmoNews TodaysiPhone