News
#Patentfun Nov 21 – 26
I held off on this one, as I was thinking there was not much to report on.
Now that’s not to mean that there wasn’t much happening – there is still a considerable amount of issues being dealt with. Just what I’m finding is that the nature of the items is becoming highly technical in legal nature and extremely political, and it sort of loses itself, and I don’t want to bore my readers [all 50 or so of you who check out this column piece).
So here’s what I saw this past week and struck me. [i try to bold the plaintiff and italicize the defendant]
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Motorola claims iCloud is infringing patents in Germany [and it looks like the judges are possibly concurring]
In Germany, the ‘motherland of patent fights’ right now, Motorola is taking the fight to Apple again, this time discussing the iCloud issue. I’m wondering if this might be some of the patents that Motorola mobility might now have access to as a part of the Google enterprise? Well, we’ll have to wait a few months before trials begin (potentially February 2024)
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S3 v. Apple dismissed
Dang, this was HTC’s chance to really start the tide turning against Apple on the American front. Now the Trade Commission didn’t give reason on why they didn’t think that the graphic powers Apple has were potentially infringing S3 patents, so HTC will most likely take up the appeal with a court that specializes in patent law but we haven’t seen that happen yet. But look for it soon, I can’t see HTC giving up on this one.
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CarrierIQ C&D’s TrevE and then backs off
Okay, so this was odd. A while back it had seemed that HTC was ‘spying’ on handsets using a piece of software from a company called CarrierIQ. People found out and one XDA feller decided to look into the issue in some detail. He had done some extensive research and released his findings on the internet for others to understand what had really happened. Total props to him on that front! A well informed populace is a better populace.
Well, from what he released (some training manuals and breakdowns of the software of what it logged — all of which he attained legally) apparently flew CarrierIQ into a legal fit and sent him a Cease and Desist letter. That would be totally spooky for just us regular folks – however TrevE, knowing he was in the right had some help from the EFF [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ], who had the impact that we all wanted to see, causing CarrierIQ to back the f*(& up. They cancelled their C&D and issued an apology to Trev.
So, there were definitely more cases and developments this week, tell me which you thought you found interesting.