Apple Vs Samsung

Apple vs. Samsung: No injunctions, no jury new trial, no more Euro-FRAND shenanigans

By Joseph Keller, Tuesday, Dec 18, 2012 a 11:54 am

Apple's been denied an injunction against Samsung, Samsung's been denied a new trial against Apple, and Europe is being denied more FRAND-based patent nonsense. Want to know more? Seriously?

Samsung chief strategy officer uses Apple products, praises Apple's ecosystem

By Joseph Keller, Thursday, Dec 13, 2012 a 1:07 pm

Samsung’s new chief strategy officer, Young Sohn, seems to be something of an Apple fan, owning several Apple products, including an iPhone and a Mac. While he also owns a Samsung devices for work, Sohn says that Apple’s iCloud and otherwise tight integration between devices makes their products attractive to customers, and that's one of Apple's big strengths.

How Samsung built their Galaxy on the back of Apple

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Dec 7, 2012 a 6:59 pm

It's widely known that, as Samsung re-invented themselves as a modern smartphone maker, they took considerable, almost absurd, inspiration from Apple. Yet copying design may not have been the only way Samsung used Apple's work to slingshot themselves to the top of the smartphone marketshare charts. Unlike every other Android manufacturer on the planet, Samsung was and is also Apple's manufacturing partner, and that might have given them a huge advantage in terms of financed capacity and knowledge of future plans.

Apple/HTC cross licensing deal details revealed with scads of redactions

By Derek Kessler, Thursday, Dec 6, 2012 a 7:57 pm

Part of agreement between Apple and HTC to become public

By Joseph Keller, Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012 a 1:22 pm

A judge in California has ruled that major details surrounding the Apple-HTC settlement will be publicly available. The pricing and royalty rates will remain confidential, but the patents that were part of the settlement will be open to the public. Previously, Samsung’s lawyers were given access to the list of patents in this settlement as part of their preparations for a hearing that will determine the final details of Apple’s legal victory over Samsung in August. Apple had sought to keep the list of patents confidential, but Judge Lucy Koh saw no compelling reason to keep these details from the public.

Samsung spending ludicrous amounts of money to advertise Galaxy phones against Apple and the iPhone

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Dec 1, 2012 a 4:07 pm

What does it take to try and push more Samsung Galaxy devices than Apple iPhones and iPads? An incredible amount of advertising and marketing money, apparently. When compared not only to Apple and Microsoft, but even ad-heavy companies like Coca Cola, Samsung's run rate looks even more ludicrously large.

Samsung to get a look at Apple's settlement with HTC

By Joseph Keller, Thursday, Nov 22, 2012 a 1:33 pm

Samsung will be able to look at the settlement between Apple and HTC. Samsung will reportedly use the content of the settlement to determine if they need to halt sales of any of their products after their billion-dollar loss to Apple in a US court in August. Apple had previously sought to keep the specific dollar amount of its settlement with HTC private while providing the rest of the settlement terms for Samsung to view, though Samsung didn’t find this sufficient.

HTC statement about Apple royalties confirms the money is irrelevant

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012 a 10:29 am

When HTC settled its patent lawsuit with Apple by agreeing to some set of undisclosed terms, analysts did their job, which is to estimate what this means to the stock.

Apple grows war chest, takes ownership of 1,024 Nortel patents

By Joseph Keller, Saturday, Nov 17, 2012 a 5:20 pm

Apple has reportedly received a transfer of 1,024 patents or patent applications from Rockstar Consortium, formerly Rockstar Bidco, a group of technology companies that bid on thousands of patents that had previously held by Nortel. Apple had been part of Rockstar Bidco, which bid against Google for the patents, and had access to the patents through that consortium. The transfer of patents to Apple’s ownership, however, could better position them in ongoing litigation. Owen Thomas of Business Insider reports:

Samsung and patent settlements: Why pay for the cow when you can have the milk for free?

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Nov 14, 2012 a 10:56 am

In the wake of HTC settling their patent litigation with Apple, likely by agreeing to pay a per-handset licensing fee to Apple, Samsung has come out and said they won't be doing likewise any time soon. That, according to J.K. Shin of Samsung Mobile.