Motorola Mobility abuses its dominant position in the E.U. by seeking and enforcing an injunction against Apple in Germany on the basis of its mobile phone standard-essential patents (SEPs), the European Commission said in a preliminary antitrust …
Google went big when it dropped nine zeroes on a patent portfolio to use against Apple, but the portfolio has been a dud in the courtroom. Is this latest legal loss the one that convinces Mountain View to try something else? Also, when you download a s…
Apple won’t have a little bundle of shareholder joy next week, iOS developers can now get their map data from Mountain View, and one team of cops has a mission—if they choose to accept it. The remainders for Friday, February 22, 2013 are cops o…
Finally, some clarity on the $1 billion jury ruling from the big trial with Samsung last summer. Samsung had a wish list that included dismissing the case entirely, while Apple made a pitch for triple damages, among other things. Judge Lucy Koh finally…
A U.S. District judge late Monday lifted the temporary sales ban against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 allowing the electronics maker to resume selling its Android-based tablet in the U.S., at least for now. The ruling is part of the current patent …

