Yesterday, December 6, a Canadian company filed two lawsuits against Apple, alleging that the Cupertino, California, company infringed on several of its patents. One lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, names both Wi-LAN (the Canadian corporation) and Wi-LAN USA (its subsidiary) as the…
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Apple acquired partial European trademark rights to the word "lightning" from motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson's intellectual property unit, H-D Michigan, LLC, according to public filings with the European Union's trademark and design unit (see below), and a blog post by Patently Apple. Apple uses the term Lightning to describe its proprietary…
A snippy apology is apparently not what the judges involved in Apple's U.K. patent litigation over Samsung tablets ordered, according to testy statements made at a U.K. Court of Appeal hearing today. Judge Robin Jacob court told Apple and Samsung lawyers this morning that the iPad maker had 24 hours to…
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STMicroelectronics, a Swiss maker of Micro-Electric-Mechanical Systems ('MEMS') for accelerometers and gyroscopes in consumer products like iPads and iPhones filed a patent infringement lawsuit today against competitor InvenSense, Inc. ST's lawsuit alleges that Sunnyvale, California-based InvenSense is infringing nine (9) of the company's patents being used in consumer electronic devices…
Jerald Bovino, the holder of a U.S. Patent (No. 6,977,809) for a portable computer case made of 'resilient material' designed with 'ribs,' is suing Apple and Target, claiming that Apple's manufacture and sale of iPad and iPad 2 cases (inset, right), and Target's sale of the iPad Smart Cover, infringe…
While Apple and Amazon have continued battling in court over its App Store trademark, Amazon launched it's "Kindle Fire" tablet this week. The move prompted Apple to quickly file an amended complaint in the case (see below).
In October, I wrote about the PocketJustice iPhone app from our friends at Oyez. Since then they’ve released an iPad version (called PocketJustice HD) which takes advantage of the larger screen real estate to make researching…
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, but there's still time to get terrific gifts for lawyers and clients. Here are some of our favs: The Apple iPad — It's sleek, small, and über cool. It holds nifty free legal apps like Fastcase to find state and federal…
Sometimes people mistake Justia's mission, "To advance the availability of legal resources for the benefit of society," as being only about advancing the availability of legal resources for lawyers, but society is much larger then the legal community. This week's App of the week is free for the iPhone and iPad…