Apple and Samsung are feuding over patents in a San Jose, Calif., courthouse. Shara Tibken/CNET SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple on Friday rested its patent-infringement suit against Samsung after an expert detailed the $2.19 billion in damages the company says it’s due from Samsung. Samsung will kick off its defense later Friday with Google Android …
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Apple and Samsung are battling in court. SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple should receive about $2.191 billion in damages from Samsung for patent infringement, an expert for the iPhone maker argued Tuesday. Apple earlier said it wanted about $2 billion, but the testimony Tuesday marked the first time the company disclosed the precise total and the factors that went into …
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Greg Christie is one of the inventors of Apple’s slide-to-unlock iPhone feature. CNET SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple took great pains to make its first iPhone as simple as possible, a company engineer told a court here, as Apple sought to add weight to its patent infringement suit against Samsung. A key argument for Apple throughout its various trials involving …
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Apple and Samsung are battling over patents. CNET SAN JOSE, Calif.–Judge Lucy Koh late Thursday denied Apple’s request to talk about how it uses several of the patents at issue in an infringement suit against Samsung. Apple filed a motion Thursday asking a court here to let it present previously banned evidence and testimony. At issue is whether Apple itself …
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And so the Apple v. Samsung legal wrangling continues. In a California patent case, Apple filed a motion late Thursday asking the court to let it present previously banned evidence and testimony. At issue is whether Apple itself uses the patents it has accused Samsung of copying. Samsung’s attorneys, during their opening arguments Tuesday, said Apple doesn’t use them. But …
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Apple and Samsung are battling over patent infringement. CNET SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple’s patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung has nothing to do with Google, Apple attorneys argued Tuesday. “You’re…going to hear Samsung point the finger at Google and say — hey, this is Android software,” Harold McElhinny, one of the lead attorneys in Apple’s patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung, …
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James Martin/CNET SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple “vastly overstated the scope of its patents” and is asking for an unreasonably high amount of damages, Samsung argued Tuesday during its opening arguments in a court here. “The suggestion seems to be if you’re not asking for billions, you don’t take patents seriously,” Samsung attorney John Quinn said. Almost two years after …
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Apple attorney Harold McElhinny presents opening arguments at the patent infringement trial against Samsung. Vicki Behringer SAN JOSE, Calif.–Samsung copied Apple’s iPhone as it tried to figure out how to react and compete with the device, Apple attorneys told a court here Tuesday. Because of that, Samsung should pay Apple about $2 billion in damages, they said. Harold McElhinny, one …
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Today Samsung announced official pricing on its vast array of new 2014 TVs, including numerous curved and 4K/UHD sets first introduced at CES 2014 last January. They ain’t cheap. Samsung’s 4K models start at $2,499 for a 50-inch size. Compare that to Vizio, for example, which is charging $999 for its cheapest 4K 50-incher. On paper, the Vizio even has …
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Google and Samsung on Sunday unveiled a broad, long-term cross-licensing deal that will cover their existing patents as well as those filed over the next 10 years. The two companies provided essentially no details about the terms of the deal or what patents and technologies its covers, only saying that it’s “mutually beneficial.” However, they did take veiled shots at …
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