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Apple awarded $1B in Damages From Samsung In US Court

A US court has ordered Samsung to pay Apple $1.05bn in damages for infringing intellectual property.

A California court decided in favor of Apple, ordering Samsung to pay $1B to Apple for patent infringement. However, a Japan court has found that Samsung did not infringe on Apple patents. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korean Court Rules Samsung Didn’t Copy iPhone

South Korean phone maker Samsung won a home court ruling Friday in its global patent battle against Apple and its popular iPhone and iPad devices.

An artist uses the Samsung Galaxy Note to draw a Batman figure at a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012 in New York. Available in the U.S. starting Thursday, the $499 tablet comes with a pen, or more precisely, a stylus. The Galaxy Note shows that the pressure is building on the iPad, and Apple will have to work if it wants to maintain its lead. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Samsung Starts US, UK, Korea Sales of Galaxy Note 10.1

Samsung is taking another shot at the dominance of Apple’s iPad with a tablet equipped with a digital pen and a split screen mode at the same price tag.

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at the Apple Developers Conference in San Francisco, in this June 2012 file photo. Apple and Samsung are battling out patent-related lawsuits in a California court (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma).

What Apple vs. Samsung Trial Means for Innovation & Progress

Forcing competition to go back to the drawing board is not necessarily bad, but if the motivation is to simply avoid lawsuit, it could lead to ugly hacks.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Vies for Spotlight Ahead of iPhone Launch

Samsung confirms the Galaxy Note 2 launch on August 29 in Berlin, two weeks ahead of Apple’s planned launch of the next iPhone.

(AP Photo/Hye Soo Nah).

Galaxy Phones Drive Samsung to Record Profit Again

Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday its net profit swelled to 5.2 trillion won or $4.5 billion in the April-June quarter, a 48% jump from a year earlier.

Did Apple knowingly use Samsung data technologies without permission?

Standards-Essential Patents & Destruction of Evidence In Apple vs. Samsung Patent Wars

The theme of the Apple vs. Samsung patent wars seems to be escalation, with both parties pulling out the big guns in an effort to win the courts (and dollars).

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Samsung Galaxy S3 Loses Local Search Function Amid Patent Row

Samsung has disabled local search in an update to the international version of its flagship Galaxy S3 smartphone, following a patent dispute with Apple.

CSR's technology is already incorporated in some of Samsung's devices, including the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 7, as well as the Apple iPhone and iPad. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Samsung Acquires WiFi, Mobile Chip Technologies of UK’s CSR

Samsung has bought the mobile-phone technology division of CSR, the British firm formerly known as Cambridge Silicon Radio.

A Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Tab 10.1 is displayed at the showroom of its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, in this 2011 file photo. A UK judge says the Galaxy Tab is not "cool" enough to warrant having copied from Apple's iPad design. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Samsung Galaxy Tab Not “Cool” Says UK Judge

Samsung has won a UK High Court case against Apple over the design of the firms’ respective tablet computers. Apple brought the case alleging that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10 infringed the design of…

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