But today both companies announced all is good now: LG and Sony have settled a total of 24 patent-infringement lawsuits with regard to TVs, Blu-ray technology and cell phones.
With the addition of the three new patents, Apple is officially filing a complaint against Samsung for infringement on a total of eight utility patents.
The amount of infringements is incredible.
In total, there are five counts of infringement against five Bose patents named in the suit, which are supposedly violated by Beats Studioo line.
The mother of all patent trolls patent acquisition, development and licensing company, which was profiled in depth by BusinessWeek just two days ago, this morning announced that it has been awarded a total of $12.4 million in a patent infringement case against Yahoo.
The remarks by Apple set the stage for yet more fractious exchanges, and come as the courts also prepare to set fines for past infringements by Apple which could total hundreds of millions of dollars.
The MPAA research echoes another study released this week that found the amount of bandwidth used for copyright infringement in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region has grown nearly 160% from 2010 to 2012, accounting for 24% of total Internet bandwidth.
In his suit he asked for three hundred and fifty million dollars in lost profits, multiplied by three — the maximum penalty for willful infringement — plus interest and costs, for a total of $1.6 billion.
It says it identified two serious infringements and one very serious infringement of data protection law — with the total sanction breaking down to €300,000 for each of the first breaches and €600,000 for the second.
Gary Goldman, whose credits include the Arnold Schwarzenegger film "Total Recall" and Tom Cruise film "Minority Report," filed his copyright infringement lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
