CUPERTINO, USA - Patents uncovered from the USPTO have unveiled a new social networking app being developed by Apple, for its iPhone. iGroups will be a crucial move for the manufacturer to keep up with the demands of always-connected users. Several mobile phone makers are already advertising their handsets as having built-in Facebook and Twitter connectivity

CUPERTINO, California—Apple® filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware. The lawsuit was filed concurrently with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and in U.S. District Court in Delaware. “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about ...

Patent system supporters regularly point (slightly misleadingly) to the claim that the patent system gives patent holders the right to exclude others from using their inventions. And, thus, most lawsuits we see around patents revolve around cases involving a company manufacturing a product that includes a patented invention. But what about a lawsuit for a company that deliberately chose not to lic...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple a new patent that outlines a location-based social networking application for its iPhone platform. According to PatentlyApple, which first discovered the patent filing (originally submitted in Q3 2008), Apple is at work on a solution dubbed ‘iGroups" that allows friends or colleagues attending group events like concerts, weddings and...

Former Apple employee Phil Kearney who worked on the AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express and Time Capsule at Google just wrote an article on Gizmodo about the potential of Google buying Palm. The underlying motive? Acquisition of patents: So what could motivate Apple to want to sue HTC? Im in agreement with those who theorize

Ah, the patent wars. As you're probably aware, TiVo spent years fighting a big legal battle with EchoStar/Dish Networks over some patents on DVR technology. TiVo won big, and then immediately turned its patent lawyers on some other companies including Verizon. In Verizon's response to TiVo's lawsuit, it went nuclear back, accusing TiVo of violating Verizon's patents on DVR tech...

HTC defends itself against Apple's patent lawsuit by walking us through its history of innovation.

AFP - Taiwan cellphone maker HTC, accused by Apple of infringing on iPhone patents, said Thursday it will "fully defend" itself against the charges.

HTC responded to Apples patent-infringement allegations in a March 17 statement, saying it will “fully defend itself” and that it designed the first color touch screen smartphone in 2002, among other industry firsts. - The Apple versus HTC lawsuit took a small step forward on March 17, with HTC releasing a public response to Apples allegations that HTC smartphones infringe on patents related to ...

AFP - Taiwan cellphone maker HTC, accused by Apple of infringing on iPhone patents, said Thursday it will "fully defend" itself against the charges.