Tag: smartphone
SmartPhone Patent Wars: A Lesson for Privateers
Today, we’ll take a short break from talking about patent trolls, and revisit another ongoing story in the patent world: the SmartPhone Patent Wars.
Here’s a short video introduction (looks best i...
Smartphone War: What Is It Good For?
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has noticed something about the ongoing patent war in the smartphone industry: it’s not accomplishing much of anything.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt took the WSJ to task for mis...
Patents in the News 2/26
The CCIA and RIM Tell the FTC Banning Injunctions for FRAND Patents Can Make Smartphone Wars Worse
Groklaw
February 26, 2013
If the government wants to build a highway and your house is in the way of ...
When A Billion Dollars Is Not Enough: Apple’s Persistence in Enjoining its Competitors
On Tuesday February 12, Apple’s “normal” appellate brief appeared on the Federal Circuit’s docket (I say “normal” because Apple took the unconventional step of originally asking for an imm...
What Judge Koh’s order in Apple v. Samsung means for the future of injunctions in the smartphone patent wars
In December, Judge Koh denied Apple's permanent injunction demands. The ruling sent Florian Mueller into fits over the state of injunction law in the United States. However, as Dennis Crouch at Pa...
Patent-less Smartphone Innovation and Global Technology Markets
(Cross-posted on Disruptive Competition Project (DisCo))
This weekend I attended the Second Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest held in Rio de Janeiro. The Congress is intended to draw a...
Lessons from Apple v. Motorola in Wisconsin
The FTC’s recent consent order in its merger review in In the Matter of Robert Bosch GmbH – a combination of manufacturing companies that make air conditioning recycling, recovery, and recharge p...