Patents
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Apple to Samsung: Your patents are worth half a penny per unit
And by the way, you owe us $2.5 billion in sales, damages and lost profits for ours
FORTUNE -- On Monday, Reuters reported that Apple (AAPL) and Samsung were far apart in their second round of court-ordered settlement talks, but we had no idea how far apart.
According to FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller, who has reviewed documents filed Tuesday morning, Apple is demanding
$500 million in lost profits
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 24, 2012 9:55 AM ET
$25 million in royalty damages
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Bankrupt Kodak loses a key Apple patent ruling
Remember Apple's QuickTake cameras? Kodak does.
FORTUNE -- In the early 1990s, long after Steve Jobs left the company, Apple (AAPL) approached Kodak (EKDKQ) executives and asked them to build a camera for the Mac.
The result -- the QuickTake 100, released in 1994 -- was one of the first digital cameras designed for consumers. It was hailed by Time Magazine as one of the 100 greatest and most influential inventions since MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 22, 2012 6:44 AM ET -
Android as a lawsuit magnet
Not just patent trolls, but companies with a combined worth of over $1 trillion have filed IP suits
FORTUNE -- FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller used the discovery Friday that Fujifilm has filed a patent infringement suit against Google (GOOG) subsidiary Motorola Mobility to ask why it is that Android attracts so many intellectual property lawsuits.
He's not talking about patent trolls. They sue everybody, including Apple (AAPL).
He's talking about publicly traded companies MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 15, 2012 7:03 PM ET -
Could Steve Jobs actually win his thermonuclear war?
Apple is granted two preliminary injunctions in one week; opponents are apoplectic
FORTUNE -- Google (GOOG) made no public comment Friday after Judge Lucy Koh granted Apple (AAPL) a preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus -- a touchscreen cellphone whose hardware and software were jointly developed by Google and Samsung engineers.
It was the second ban on an Android-based Samsung device in a week (see here), and the first to strike directly MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 30, 2012 6:53 AM ET -
Why Judge Posner pulled the plug on Apple v. Motorola
In a ruling sure to be widely cited, an influential jurist put his finger on the problem with Steve Jobs' threat to go "thermonuclear" on Google's Android
FORTUNE -- Toward the end of his long analysis of Judge Richard Posner's ruling Friday that dismissed -- once and for all, with prejudice -- Apple's (AAPL) claim that Motorola's Android phones "ripped off" the iPhone, FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller got to the heart MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 23, 2012 8:19 AM ET -
Apple v. Motorola: Tentatively tossed out, bounces back
The judge left open the possibility that he might change his mind, and that's what he did
FORTUNE -- When last we visited Judge Richard Posner's court in the Northern District of Illinois he had issued an order dismissing "with prejudice" the Apple v. Motorola patent infringement case -- an order that was widely reported as the end of the line for both parties.
But the order was tentative, and it came MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 14, 2012 4:17 PM ET -
Judge tentatively pulls the plug on Apple v. Motorola
Having whittled the case down to the nub, Richard Posner tossed out the rest
FORTUNE -- First he characterized a Motorola claim as "ridiculous." Then he called one of Apple's (AAPL) "frivolous" and "untimely," warning Cupertino's lawyers that he'd had his fill of such things. Later he told both sides to rewrite their briefs in language a layperson could understand, and forbade Apple from trying to turn the case into a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 7, 2012 4:16 PM ET -
At peak of Apple patent war, Samsung names a new CEO
The new man comes from the semiconductor side, the old from mobile phones
FORTUNE -- With an Apple (AAPL) patent trial set to begin July 30 and no settlement in sight, Samsung replaced its chairman Thursday.
According to Reuters, the new CEO is Kwon Oh-hyun, a 27-year veteran of the Korean electronics giant. He succeeds Choi Gee-sung, who met with Apple CEO Tim Cook last month in San Francisco for two days of court-ordered mediation MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 7, 2012 5:28 AM ET -
Judge bars Apple from turning court into reality distortion field
Forbids lawyers from trying to make patent case an Apple-Android "popularity contest"
FORTUNE -- If you're following the smartphone patent wars and have never run into Judge Richard A. Posner before, you're in for a treat.
The federal judge who drew Apple v. Motorola is one of America's most respected -- and outspoken -- jurists. He's had a hand in everything from the Microsoft antitrust trial to the Monica Lewinsky case. He MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 2, 2012 11:21 AM ET -
Why Samsung must negotiate. Why Apple won't settle.
In the court-ordered talks that begin Monday, the two sides are playing by different rules
FORTUNE -- The federal judge overseeing the Northern California front of the global smartphone patent war has the power to bring the CEOs of Apple (AAPL) and Samsung -- Tim Cook and Choi Gee-sung -- to a mediation session, but even he can't force a settlement.
The differences between the kinds of patents the two companies are MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 21, 2012 7:09 AM ET
