The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday highlighted an unusual split with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division in a California federal court filing that slammed the DOJ’s antitrust watchdogs for butting into the FTC’s case against Qualcomm over the chipmaker’s patent licensing practices…
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Communications company Voip-Pal.com Inc. lost a handful of lawsuits accusing tech giants Apple, Twitter, AT&T and Verizon of infringing a pair of call-routing patents when a California federal judge on Monday ruled Voip-Pal’s patents are too generalized and abstract to be valid…
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Lyft Inc. is looking to kill a patent suit by a retired professor who says he invented the concept underlying the ride-hailing business, telling a California federal court Monday that his patent only describes an abstract idea for running a taxi dispatch service using computers…
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Apple Inc. will have to face a suit alleging the “home” button on certain iPhones and iPads infringes patents held by a Korean company, after a California federal judge on Friday shot down the Cupertino-based tech behemoth’s bid to have the case dismissed as baseless…
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Qualcomm traded blows once again with Apple on Friday in a smartphone patent trial in California federal court, claiming an Apple lawyer made an “utterly baseless” accusation of witness tampering against the San Diego-based tech giant and its counsel from Quinn Emanuel…
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