January 30, 2014
A federal judge sanctioned Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP Wednesday for disclosing confidential details of a smartphone patent license between Apple Inc. and Nokia Corp. to its client Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., but rejected the draconian penalties sought by Apple and Nokia.
January 10, 2014
Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday urged a California federal judge to deny Apple Inc.'s renewed bid to block Samsung from selling in the U.S. certain smartphones found to infringe iPhone and iPad patents, saying Apple has failed to show the patented features drive demand for the infringing devices.
January 09, 2014
Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have agreed to enter into mediation by the middle of next month in an attempt to resolve their patent infringement battle over newer devices such as the iPhone 5 as the case's March trial date draws near, according to a proposal filed in California federal court Wednesday.
January 07, 2014
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on Monday swiped at a bid by Apple Inc. to increase a design patent infringement damages award it received from a California federal jury in November by $90 million, arguing the jury's damages finding was sound and that increasing the reward would flout the U.S. Constitution.
December 16, 2013
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. asked a judge Friday to either reduce a recent $290 million damages award against it in a smartphone patent dispute with Apple Inc. or order a new trial, saying the verdict lacked evidentiary support and was tainted by "direct appeals to racial prejudice" by Apple's attorneys.
December 09, 2013
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP on Monday urged a California federal judge not to sanction it for leaking confidential details of a patent license between Apple Inc. and Nokia Corp., arguing that its leak in the high-stakes smartphone patent litigation between Apple and Quinn client Samsung Electronics Co. had been inadvertent.
December 06, 2013
Samsung Electronics Corp. should pay Apple Inc. $15.7 million in attorneys' fees following Apple's $930 million victory in two patent infringement and damages trials between the smartphone rivals, the company argued in a motion Thursday.
November 26, 2013
A California federal judge on Monday rejected a request by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to stay its smartphone patent dispute with Apple Inc. in light of a preliminary ruling that a key Apple patent is invalid, saying that delaying the case will harm Apple.
November 21, 2013
To judge from notes passed to a California federal court by the jurors who slammed Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. with a $290 million verdict in its smartphone patent battle with Apple Inc. Thursday, jurors had no trouble making themselves at home while they weighed Samsung's fate.
November 21, 2013
Samsung Electronics Co. owes Apple Inc. $290.5 million for selling mobile devices that infringed five iPhone and iPad patents, a California federal jury found Thursday, trouncing Samsung's efforts to cap damages at $53 million and bringing its total bill for copying Apple products to almost $930 million.