June 4, 2012 - Since Scott Thompson stepped down as Yahoo's CEO, talks between Yahoo and Facebook have taken on a more conciliatory tone. The All Things D website reports that, according to inside sources, executives at Facebook and Yahoo are close to making a deal that would end their patent infringement lawsuit.
May 31, 2012 - French company Cie. de Saint-Gobain SA, Europe's largest supplier of building materials, will have to pay Siemens Medical Solutions USA $44.9 million (and possibly more) for patent infringement following a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.
May 29, 2012 - Hewlett Packard Corp. (HP) announced that it has settled its patent litigation with Multilaser Industrial Ltd., a Brazil-based company.
May 25, 2012 - Huawei Technologies filed a complaint with the European Commission (EC) against InterDigital, a U.S.-based non-practicing entity that Huawei says is trying to force the Chinese communications equipment company into a "discriminatory, unfair and exploitative" license under eight 3G standard essential patents.
May 24, 2012 - Judge Lucy Koh had ordered the CEOs of Apple and Samsung to meet for settlement talks on May 21 in an effort to avoid a large and complicated trial, but the settlement talks failed, according to a Samsung official interviewed by The Korea Times.
May 24, 2012 - Despite the fact that the jury was reportedly mired in technical details of the Oracle v. Google patent infringement lawsuit on May 22, just one day later the jurors returned a verdict that two Oracle patents were not infringed by Google.
May 22, 2012 - Nearly two years after Kelora Systems LLC filed a patent infringement suit against several e-commerce giants, a federal judge decided that the patent wasn't infringed and that the defendants may recover their legal fees from the plaintiff.
May 15, 2012 - Lodsys LLC, the company known for its patent litigation against app developers for the iPhone, iPad and Android operating systems, filed six more lawsuits this month. Five of the defendants are adult entertainment companies, including Playboy Enterprises Inc.
May 14, 2012 - In a dramatic turn of events - all of which have unfolded in the space of a week - Yahoo's CEO Scott Thompson is stepping down amid controversy over an imaginary computer science degree and reports that he has thyroid cancer. His interim replacement CEO is Ross Levinsohn. The news is big, and raises the question of how it will affect Yahoo's patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook.
May 10, 2012 - In response to Judge Lucy Koh's warning last week about trimming their claims to a manageable level (details of which are in our blog entry "Take It Down a Notch"), both Apple and Samsung filed amended cases on Monday, May 7.
The CEOs of both companies are still scheduled to meet on May 21 and attempt to negotiate an out of court settlement.