File this under: interesting to follow, but not going to happen. Spansion, the number 3 worldwide maker of flash memory chips, has sued Samsung, the Samsung is the world’s biggest memory chip maker, citing patent infringement. “Spansion has patents that are fundamental to flash memory. Samsung itself has cited these patents many times in its own patent filings, underscoring industry ac...

  Kodak sues LG and Samsung over a matter of digital imaging patent. According to Kodak’s claim, the two cellphone producer had infringed the company’s image enhancement features such as image compression, capture, storage, and video content preview. Meanwhile, Kodak has disclosed that other phone carriers that manufacture camera phones have signed up for a license under

Spansion Inc., a pure-play Flash memory vendor, has filed two patent-infringement lawsuits against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., one at the U.S. International Trade Commission, the other in a Delaware district court.

In the Energizer Bunny of litigation (it keeps going and going and going), Broadcom won a round in its running battle with Qualcomm over EVDO chip patent issues when a federal district court ruled that Qualcomm violated an injunction to stop using Broadcom technology or pay royalties. Qualcomm had been allowed to continue to sell "legacy" EVDO chips until Jan. 31, 2009 as long as Broadcom got a ro...

Kodak has announced that it is taking LG and Samsung to court over both companies' production of cell phones with integrated digital cameras. ars technica reports. In its complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, Kodak alleges that the digital cameras in cell phones like the LG Shine or Samsung FlipShot violate two of its patents related to dig...

Flash memory manufacturer, Spansion, is looking to lock down BlackBerry, iPod and other gadget sales over a patent infringement case with Samsung. Good luck with that, Spansion, but you’re probably more likely to get a big fat out-of-court settlement. Supposedly over 100 million devices are using Samsung memory that stomps all over Spansion’s technology. Given

Kodak is suing LG and Samsung over patent infringement in the design of camera phones, accusing the handset makers of using Kodak's design for the capture, data compression and storage of pictures. Kodak usually inks licensing deals for its technology and it has done so with other camera manufacturers and cell phone makers, but the Rochester, N.Y.-based company s...

Eastman Kodak has filed patent infringement lawsuits against cell phone makers LG and Samsung claiming the two are violating some of Kodak's digital imaging patents. The patents in question concern image compression, image capture, data storage, and previewing video ...

Samsung and LG may have been churning out the best high-megapixel phones for a while now, but it seems somebody’s not happy with what they’re doing. More to the point, Kodak is displeased at Samsung and LG’s business, and has filed complaints against both companies for infringement of certain digital camera patents. According to an announcement

Introducing DubMeNow, the patent-pending technology that allows anyone with a smart phone to instantly exchange (via text or email) all their contact information (email, phone, company, address, title, etc.) to another smart phone. The contact data loads directly to the user's mobile address book, the web and updates automatically whenever a contact changes their information. Dub eliminates t...