This Dumbass Just Got Seven Years For Stealing Steve Jobs’ iPad
Kariem McFarlin, the man who broke into the late Steve Jobs’ house, has been given a 7-year sentence. McFarlin did not dispute the claims during...
Belgian Consumer Group Suing Apple Over Warranty Practices
Test-Aankoop, a Belgian consumer group, has filed a lawsuit against Apple for its warranty practices, claiming Apple does not respect local laws on warranties. With...
Judge Approves Kodak Patent Sale To Apple, Google
Judge Allan L. Gropper has just approved Kodak’s sale of 1,100 patents to Apple, Google and other tech companies. This sale includes many digital imaging...
Apple’s “Retina” Eyeball Image Lawsuit Settled With Swiss Photographer
A few months ago a lawsuit was filed against Apple by a Swiss photographer who claimed that Apple misused one of her images. Most people...
Apple Found Guilty Of Copyright Infringement In China
Apple has been a courtroom champion lately, winning the majority of patent battles, but the tables have turned in China, though not for any patent...
ITC Warns Samsung Of Upcoming Injunction
FOSS Patents has just reported that Samsung was recently warned of a large product injunction that could cost them up to 88 percent of income...
Samsung Forced By Judge To Reveal Sales Numbers In Apple Case
Samsung received a slight blow today in the ongoing boxing match between the Korean company and Apple. U.S. judge Lucy Koh has approved a request...
Steve Jobs’ Gigantic Yacht Reportedly Stuck In Harbor Due To Payment Disputes
The Jobs’ family yacht, commissioned by Steve Jobs before his death, is reportedly stuck in a Dutch harbor due to a payment dispute with French...
Samsung Suing Apple Again, This Time Over Notification Center
Here we go again. Samsung recently filed a new patent infringement lawsuit in Korea against Apple, this time over the iOS version of Notification Center....
Apple’s Pinch-To-Zoom Patent Ruled Invalid By USPTO
The United States Patent and Trademark Office, or USPTO, has just ruled Apple’s famous pinch-to-zoom patent invalid. The USPTO ruled patent No. 7,844,915, which covers...
Apple Found Not Guilty Of Infringing On Alcatel-Lucent Video Patents
Alcatel-Lucent was hoping to come out on top in a patent case against Apple and LG Electronics, but a U.S. Federal Court Jury in San...
Judge Pleads For “Global Peace” Between Apple And Samsung
In the seemingly never-ending court battles between Apple and Samsung, Judge Lucy Koh voiced her own opinion in the courtroom yesterday, asking for “global peace”...
Apple Wins Again, Samsung Galaxy Products On Sales Ban In The Netherlands
A Dutch court, the Court of The Hague, placed a sales ban on some Samsung Galaxy products for infringing on an Apple patent that describes...
Apple And Samsung Still At Each Other’s Throats, Apple To Add Six Devices To Next Samsung Patent Trial
Sorry, folks. They’re still at it. While many have hoped that the tension between the two megacorporations have finally eased away, it looks like that...
Apple Ordered To Tell Samsung Details Of Licensing Deal With HTC
Apple and HTC recently reached a legal settlement that included a ten year licensing deal, the details of which have remained private. Now, a U.S....
Hacker Facing Jail Time For Massive iPad Hack In 2010
Back in 2010, hackers from Goatse Security found a major iPad security flaw in AT&T’s website that exposed thousands of iPad owners’ email addresses. Instead...
HTC Says Media Reports Of Apple Licensing Deal Is “Outrageous” And “Wrong”
Earlier this month HTC and Apple reached a global patent settlement and a 10-year licensing agreement. The two companies did not reveal any details of...
ITC To Re-evaluate Decisions On One Billion Dollar Apple-Samsung Patent Case
Bloomberg has reported that the ITC, or International Trade Commission, will be re-evaluating its decision that Apple did not infringe on any Samsung patents from...