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FOSS PATENTS: German court stays Samsung lawsuit against Apple over smiley input method patent

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Krzysztof Bryk

I just attended an announcement at the Mannheim Regional Court. Judge Andreas Voss (“Voß” in German) ordered a stay of a Samsung lawsuit against Apple over doubts concerning the validity of a patent covering a particular method for entering smileys on a mobile phone. A nullity (invalidation) action against that patent is pending at the [...]

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FOSS PATENTS: Patent exhaustion and possible EU intervention at issue in German Samsung v. Apple SEP lawsuit

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Krzysztof Bryk

The dispute between Apple and Samsung is a good example of how much faster patent holders can enforce their rights in Germany than in the United States. This earth-spanning patent war started with Apple’s first federal lawsuit, filed in April 2011, in response to which Samsung retaliated in several countries including Germany. By the standards [...]

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FOSS PATENTS: Samsung attacking Apple’s screen-to-speech functionality with German patent

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Krzysztof Bryk

At the end of my post on Apple’s Black Friday motion to bring infringement claims against six more Samsung products in California I promised that I would report on the two Samsung v. Apple trials that took place in Mannheim on the same day. I’ll start with the one relating to a non-standard-essential patent. DE10040386 [...]

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Apple Insider: German court sets dates for Apple patent suits against Samsung, Motorola

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Krzysztof Bryk

A German court on Friday set the dates for two Apple lawsuits being leveled against Samsung and Motorola for alleged infringement of a multitouch patent that could result in a sales stoppage of handsets running the latest versions of Google’s Android operating system. The Mannheim court scheduled the hearings to begin on Aug. 31 for [...]

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