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Supreme Court rules for Samsung in patent dispute with Apple (over damages, not the patent violation)

by Brad Linder12/06/2016 Comments Off

Samsung and Apple have been fighting court battles since 2011 over phones that neither company actually sells anymore. Apple claimed that Samsung copied some of its iPhone designs for the physical appearance and software for early versions of Samsung’s Galaxy line of Android phones. And a jury did find in 2012 that Samsung infringed on Apple’s patents, […]

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Supreme Court ruling kills Aereo’s cloud DVR service

by Brad Linder06/25/201406/25/2014 6 Comments

Aereo is a company that lets you record live broadcasts of television shows in some markets and stream them over the internet for $8 per month whether you have a TV, cable box, antenna or not. And now Aereo is probably going to have to shut down that business, although it’s not yet clear if […]