Cheryl Milone

In the United States, the price for violating Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) patents has proved to be enormous. Last summer, Samsung was ordered to pay $1 billion dollars for infringing on a number of patents owned by the iPhone maker. Samsung worked hard to reduce the penalty, but it could rise again...

The two tech titans may have gone too far to reach a peaceful resolution. Last week, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) attempted to suck Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) into its ongoing patent dispute with Samsung. The iPhone maker asked a judge to force Google to hand over documents relating to Android, the primary...

In the war for patent supremacy, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) are rarely seen as victims. More often than not, Apple is thought of as a patent predator, having attacked Samsung and numerous other tech firms with massive lawsuits. The Mac maker is now embroiled in a series of...

Last October, Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) founder Elon Musk said that his other firm, SpaceX (a space transport company), does not have any interest in holding patents. "We have essentially no patents in SpaceX," Musk told Wired. "Our primary long-term competition is in China—if we published...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) could be on the cusp of an $85 million payday after uncovering a potential error in its ongoing patent trial against Samsung. According to FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller, Judge Lucy Koh "thought the jury had granted, on the basis of an impermissible legal theory presented by...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) co-founder Steve Jobs is often thought of as one of the most important men in technology. He ranked first on Harvard Business Review's list of the world's 100 best-performing CEOs. Business Insider said he was the best CEO in America. The Wall Street Journal called him the...