Tag: Google February 22, 2018 • by Quandary Peak Research Trade Secrets and Cover-Ups: The Case of Waymo vs. Uber In February 2017, Waymo filed a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court against Uber, alleging theft of trade-secrets related to Waymo’s self-driving car technology. The lawsuit, full of twists and turns, was settled earlier this month, with Uber agreeing to pay $245 million in shares to Alphabet (Google), Waymo’s parent company. Below… Read More September 25, 2014 • by Quandary Peak Research Quandary Peak Expert Testifies on Web and Search Engine Technology One of Quandary Peak’s experts in web, Internet, and search engine technology recently provided courtroom testimony in a contempt hearing, Golden Best Plumbing, Inc. v. Touni Baghdasarian and Happy Rooter. The Internet expert, Jason Frankovitz, opined on whether the plaintiff’s trade name was being used to market services on the defendant’s Web… Read More September 17, 2014 • by George Edwards 2 Comments Introduction to the Gmail API One of the most difficult questions when creating a new product is how to ensure that the product has a chance to attract a large user base. The good news is that the big players in the technology market such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter let developers create applications that can access… Read More February 8, 2014 • by Quandary Peak Research Quandary Peak Assists in Nokia v. HTC Patent Litigation Nokia’s recent settlement with HTC over smartphone patents was widely reported in the media on Friday, resulting in the dismissal of all pending patent litigation worldwide between the two companies. Industry observers widely cited the outcome as an important step for Nokia in its effort to generate royalties from its patent portfolio.… Read More January 31, 2014 • by Sam Malek Fresh Ideas for Addressing Mobile Software Security Vulnerabilities Security has become the Achilles’ heel of most modern software systems. Techniques ranging from manual inspection to automated static and dynamic code analyses are commonly employed to identify security vulnerabilities prior to the release of software. However, these techniques are time-consuming and cannot keep pace with the growth of software repositories, such… Read More December 13, 2013 • by Ed Flores Innovation Act Aims to Curb Patent Trolling On December 5, the House passed H.R. 3309, also known as the Innovation Act, by a wide margin of 325-91. The bill now moves to the Senate, where it’s expected to receive limited opposition and could be signed into law by the end of the year. Proponents of the bill included industry… Read More September 25, 2013 • by George Edwards Smartphone Patent Wars: Timeline of the Apple v. Samsung Legal Battle Over the years, we’ve seen plenty of intellectual property lawsuits involving Apple Inc. (who, ahem, does not like to be called Apple, Inc.). Apple went after Digital Research and Microsoft during the ’80s and ’90s for copying the “look and feel” of the Macintosh OS. But in the last five years, Apple… Read More September 17, 2013 • by Quandary Peak Research Edwards Tapped to Testify on GPS, Navigation, and Mapping Patents Dr. George Edwards, Quandary Peak’s resident guru of location-based mobile services, has been asked to testify as an expert witness in a lawsuit alleging infringement of a patent for “Method and System for Providing an Image Vector-Based Traffic Information.” The case, Porto Technology, Co., Ltd. et al. v. Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon… Read More September 9, 2013 • by Quandary Peak Research Wireless and Mobile Tech Trends: Tablet Data Usage and Android Jelly Bean Cellular data usage for tablets is up a marked 48% year on year in the first quarter of 2013, according to a data consumption report released by consumer market research firm NPD Group. This isn’t a huge surprise, considering people are increasingly shifting video consumption and web browsing to tablets, and given… Read More
