Pinn, Inc. v. Apple Inc.

  1. August 03, 2022

    Apple Urges Jury To Invalidate Pinn Inc.'s Earbud Patents

    Apple Inc.'s counsel urged a California federal jury during opening statements Wednesday to invalidate two Pinn Inc. wireless earbud patents the Silicon Valley giant is accused of infringing with its AirPods, arguing Pinn changed strategies to copy AirPods after its own product fizzled, writing new patent claims that differed from Pinn's original application.

  2. August 02, 2022

    Apple AirPods Infringe Pinn Patents, Jury Told As Trial Opens

    An attorney for California company Pinn Inc. told a Golden State federal jury during opening statements Tuesday that Apple Inc. ripped off its patented hands-free, all-in-one wireless earbud technology when it released its AirPods in 2016, refusing to "play by the rules" and pay royalties as Samsung and Google did. 

  3. March 17, 2022

    IP Forecast: Google To Fight Sonos' Last-Minute Changes

    Google is scheduled next week to tell U.S. District Judge William Alsup that Sonos' "11th hour" bid to make changes to its case in its wireless audio patent war with the tech giant "threatens to derail this court's patent showdown procedure."

  4. January 25, 2022

    Apple, Panasonic Patent Trials Delayed Amid Omicron Surge

    Two California federal patent trials have been postponed amid the pandemic's omicron surge, with Panasonic's suit accusing Getac of infringing its "Toughbook" design patents delayed until June and a case claiming Apple's AirPods infringe a startup's intellectual property now pushed to March.

  5. January 20, 2022

    IP Forecast: Minerva, Hologic To Face Off At Fed. Circ. Again

    Federal Circuit judges will consider next week whether a medical device startup's founder can attack a patent he helped develop after a U.S. Supreme Court decision in the dispute last year narrowed rules for blocking inventors from challenging their own patents.

  6. January 05, 2022

    Omicron Surge Reshuffles Patent Trial Plans Once Again

    The beginning of January was shaping up to be a busy time for patent jury trials with judges scheduling several to kick off the new year, following a lull during the pandemic, but skyrocketing viral infections have led many of the trials to be postponed.