
A US court has ruled that Samsung should pay Apple $1.05 billion in damages in an intellectual property lawsuit. It said several of Samsung’s devices had infringed iPhone-maker Apple’s software and design patents. The jury rejected Samsung’s claims that several of its patents had been breached and awarded it no damages. Apple may seek an [...]

Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has been ordered to pay $147 million in damages after losing a patents case. A jury in San Francisco upheld claims by Mformation Technologies Inc that RIM infringed patents it took out in 1999. The software involved allows companies to access employees’ mobile phones remotely for upgrades, password changes [...]

Giant tech company Apple has been ordered to pay damages to rival Samsung Electronics by a court in the Netherlands. The court said that Apple had infringed a patent held by Samsung relating to the way phones and tablet PCs connect to the internet. Apple, which recently became the world’s most valuable firm, has been [...]