Samsung Electronics said Friday that it has sued against Apple in the U.S. for copying its patents, following its former legal complaints again the iPhone maker at courts in Korea, Japan and Germany.

Patent applications for a Self-Organizing Network (SON), which requires minimal human involvement in network planning and optimization tasks, has increased from 15 cases in 2007, to 34 cases in 2008 and now 15 cases in …

Palm is out on the market for sale and has hired Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst Partners as advisers. Many companies are being talked about as candidates to buy the financially-troubled company. Suitors include Huawei, ZTE, …

All three major mobile phone makers in Korea, Samsung, LG and Pantech, are bringing tribute to InterDigital, a well-known patent troll.

Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest flat-screen panel maker, said Monday that it has signed a cross licensing deal with Japan’s Sharp over technologies related to liquid crystal display (LCD) panels and LCD modules.
The cross-licensing deal …

South Korea’s state-run telecommunications research institute said Monday it is suing more than 20 foreign mobile phone makers, including Nokia and Motorola, over patent violations.
The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) filed patent complaints against …

Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest maker of memory chips and flat-panel TVs, said Monday that it has sealed a cross-licensing deal with Eastman Kodak, ending a patent dispute over digital-camera technology with the U.S. company.
Samsung …

Samsung Electronics said Thursday it is in talks with Eastman Kodak to sign a cross-licensing agreement to settle a patent dispute over digital-camera technology.
In November, the U.S. company filed a complaint with the International Trade …

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics confirmed Thursday it has lodged a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) against Sharp over its patents on liquid crystal displays (LCDs).
Notice of the complaint, in which Samsung Electronics …

A majority of South Korean companies engaged in aggressive research and development (R&D) projects are vulnerable to patent rights disputes, an umbrella business group said Wednesday.
The Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) said 70 percent of …