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Apple has asked a federal judge in Silicon Valley to add Samsung's new flagship Galaxy smartphone to the list of devices targeted in a patent lawsuit involving Siri personal assistant software. http://phys.org/news288508303.html Technology Thu, 23 May 2013 06:11:49 EST news288508303 A federal judge on Friday struck down an effort to form a class action lawsuit to go after Apple, Google and five other technology companies for allegedly forming an illegal cartel to tamp down workers' wages and prevent the loss of their best engineers during a multiyear conspiracy broken up by government regulators. http://phys.org/news284402350.html Technology Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:39:15 EST news284402350 A US judge has ordered the FBI to stop its "pervasive" use of National Security letters to snoop on phone and email records, ruling Friday that the widespread tactic was unconstitutional. http://phys.org/news282594168.html Technology Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:22:54 EST news282594168 A federal judge on Friday slashed nearly half of the $1 billion damage award a jury ordered Samsung Electronics to pay Apple Inc. after a high-profile trial over the rights to the design and technology running some of the world's most popular smartphones and tablet computers. http://phys.org/news281386508.html Technology Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:10:01 EST news281386508 A federal judge on Thursday tossed out more than a dozen patent infringement claims filed against Microsoft by Google-owned Motorola Mobility. http://phys.org/news279518209.html Technology Fri, 08 Feb 2013 03:56:58 EST news279518209 Late Apple chief Steve Jobs threatened to slap Palm with patent lawsuits to prevent the tech rival from hiring away its talent, according to court documents available on Wednesday. http://phys.org/news278176000.html Technology Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:07:51 EST news278176000 Apple chief Tim Cook and Google chairman Eric Schmidt are expected to face questioning in a lawsuit accusing Silicon Valley giants of secretly agreeing not to "poach" one another's workers, according to officials and court documents. http://phys.org/news277795893.html Technology Sat, 19 Jan 2013 05:32:29 EST news277795893 Apple is appealing a judge's refusal to bar Samsung smartphones from the U.S. market after a jury found Samsung used some Apple technology without permission. http://phys.org/news275244695.html Technology Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:51:42 EST news275244695 A federal jury on Thursday found Apple guilty of infringing on smartphone call handling and camera patents held by a licensing firm in which rivals Sony and Nokia hold stakes. http://phys.org/news274639433.html Technology Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:44:01 EST news274639433 Apple and Samsung will face off in federal court on Thursday over whether a juror's own legal dispute wrongly led to the South Korean firm being hit with a billion-dollar patent damages award. http://phys.org/news273906212.html Technology Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:10:01 EST news273906212 A judge on Monday lifted a ban on US sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 computers as the South Korean firm added Apple's new iPhone 5 to a patent brawl between the two market rivals. http://phys.org/news268369333.html Technology Tue, 02 Oct 2012 04:02:36 EST news268369333 Taiwan's AU Optronics said Friday it would appeal against a US court decision to fine it $500 million for taking part in what prosecutors called the "most serious price-fixing" case in US history. http://phys.org/news267423618.html Technology Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:30:01 EST news267423618 Samsung Electronics said Thursday it was "disappointed" at a US judge's refusal to lift a ban on US sales of its tablet computer as it fights a long-running global legal battle with arch-rival Apple. http://phys.org/news267332051.html Technology Thu, 20 Sep 2012 04:10:01 EST news267332051 US software giant Oracle is appealing a $306 million settlement in its marathon copyright infringement lawsuit against German rival SAP, court documents show. http://phys.org/news265949234.html Technology Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:00:06 EST news265949234 A US judge on Wednesday urged the chiefs of Apple and Samsung to negotiate a truce in their high-profile patent trial here, saying it was "time for peace." http://phys.org/news264258645.html Technology Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:10:53 EST news264258645 Freedom of speech on Facebook is at the heart of an appeals court case in Virginia involving an elected sheriff who fired staff members who "liked" his rival on the social networking site. http://phys.org/news263754079.html Technology Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:01:53 EST news263754079 A top Samsung executive testified that he found "very offensive" the suggestion that the South Korean gadget giant ripped-off Apple's market-leading mobile iPhone and iPad devices. http://phys.org/news263528358.html Technology Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:40:01 EST news263528358 US business software giant Oracle said Thursday it agreed to accept a $306 million settlement from German rival SAP to shortcut the appeals process in a suit over massive copyright infringement. http://phys.org/news263188130.html Technology Fri, 03 Aug 2012 05:10:02 EST news263188130 Apple told a US court Tuesday it will seek damages of more than $2.5 billion from Samsung in a patent infringement case accusing the South Korean firm of copying the iPhone and iPad maker. http://phys.org/news262354679.html Technology Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:18:06 EST news262354679 A US appeals court gave Samsung a temporary reprieve Friday on the sale of its Galaxy Nexus 7 smartphones while leaving intact a court ban on US sales of its tablet computers in a patent battle with Apple. http://phys.org/news260819423.html Technology Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:50:30 EST news260819423 South Korea's Samsung vowed Saturday to "take all available measures" to fight a US court's decision to block American sales of its Galaxy Nexus smartphones made in collaboration with Google. http://phys.org/news260342855.html Technology Sun, 01 Jul 2012 07:00:01 EST news260342855 A judge granted Apple's request for an injunction blocking US sales of Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphones made in collaboration with Google to challenge the iPhone. http://phys.org/news260342362.html Technology Sun, 01 Jul 2012 06:19:37 EST news260342362 Apple's effort to stop South Korea's Samsung from launching its newest iPhone challenger in the US has been derailed by complex maneuvering in the patent war between the companies. http://phys.org/news258825882.html Technology Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:04:48 EST news258825882 A federal judge on Thursday put a stake in the heart of Oracle's big-money lawsuit against Google by ruling that the application programming interfaces (APIs) at issue can't be copyrighted. http://phys.org/news257744161.html Technology Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:00:01 EST news257744161 Two days of court-directed peace talks between the chiefs of iPhone-maker Apple and smartphone giant Samsung ended with no sign of a truce in the legal battle headed for court in Silicon Valley. http://phys.org/news257012546.html Technology Wed, 23 May 2012 17:22:35 EST news257012546 (AP) -- Aereo, a startup that takes live TV broadcasts and sends them to mobile devices in New York for a monthly fee, has won a partial victory in court over the media companies that are suing it. http://phys.org/news256928642.html Technology Tue, 22 May 2012 18:04:13 EST news256928642 The judge presiding over a patent trial pitting Oracle against Google scolded rival attorneys on Monday as deliberating jurors grappled with subtleties of references in computer software code. http://phys.org/news256843489.html Technology Mon, 21 May 2012 18:50:01 EST news256843489 The chiefs of iPhone-maker Apple and smartphone giant Samsung were to be in patent war truce talks on Monday at the direction of a judge who asked them sidestep a court battle. http://phys.org/news256843259.html Technology Mon, 21 May 2012 18:21:04 EST news256843259 Google on Wednesday confirmed that it wants a new trial on the copyright portion of a legal battle being fought with Oracle in San Francisco federal court. http://phys.org/news255805539.html Technology Wed, 09 May 2012 18:06:01 EST news255805539 A jury ruled Monday that Google violated copyrights owned by Oracle Corp. for the Android mobile platform, but failed to agree on whether damages should be awarded in the high-profile trial. http://phys.org/news255625992.html Technology Mon, 07 May 2012 16:13:50 EST news255625992