Tag: legal
Apple Reveals Its Record Against Patent Trolls
Currently, patent trolling is a legitimate way to make a living in some countries. Exploiting the patent system for profit has become so outrageous that...
Apple Agrees To Pay 1.9 Million USD To Settle Australian 4G Case
An Australian court has heard that Apple has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle a case that alleges that Apple misled consumers over the...
Apple Awarded Misspelled URL
It looks like the fat fingerers among us are in for some good news. aplestore.com, once home of many ads, has been ordered to be...
Apple And Samsung Drop Some Lawsuit Claims, Still Hate Each Other
The big boys have decided that it’s time to play nice on the playground. Both Apple and Samsung have dropped a large number of their...
Apple In Legal Trouble For Allegedly Double Billing iTunes Users
Apple’s refund policy and the difficult procedures required to obtain refunds for iTunes and App Store purchases are pretty notorious in these parts of the...
DOJ approves The Rockstar Consortium’s purchase of Nortel patents
The United States Department of Justice has just approved Nortel’s patent sale, worth $4.5 billion, to Apple, RIM, Microsoft, Sony, and Ericsson. The consortium, going...
Street View gets Apple and Google sued
Oh, patents, you never stop slowing down innovation. Jeff Roberts at Paid Content is reporting that a Florida company called PanoMap is claiming that both...
Motorola’s FRAND abuses against Apple stopped dead in its tracks in Germany
Sorry, Motorola, the court doesn’t want to hear any more of your complaints about standard-essential patent violations, and in particular they don’t want to hear...
China, of all countries, potentially fining Apple for trademark infringement
It looks like Apple’s now potentially in legal trouble in China due to trademark infringement claims by Proview Technology Shenzehen. According to the company, and...
Siri: Now legal to reverse engineer into the iPhone 4
File this report in the “This is cool, but you still won’t be getting Siri on your iPhone 4 any time soon” folder. After the...
Sorry Samsung, Apple can still sell the 4S in France for now
Not only has Samsung lost their attempt to secure a preliminary injunction against Apple, but they’re also now being forced to pay Apple’s $134,000 in...
Apple now legally allowed to fire employees for Facebook comments
Freedom of speech is clearly dead. Crisp, a now “former” Apple employee, has lost his job for negatively commenting about Apple products on Facebook. According...
Judgement handed out to the two guys who found (and sold) Apple’s iPhone 4 prototype
The two men who allegedly found Apple’s iPhone 4 prototype last year have pleaded no-contest, and have received a relatively modest sentence: one year probation,...
Apple is fighting for your privacy rights alongside Dropbox
Online privacy is obviously already a hot ticket item (did you watch any f8 yesterday?), but surprisingly there’s a lot of major tech players joining...
Kodak shopping patents around to very interested buyers, including Apple
In the high stakes game of patent portfolio wars, Kodak revealed on July 20th that it may be willing to part with over a thousand...
Dutch judge rules that Samsung is violating Apple patent
The legal battle between Apple and Samsung continues today, as a dutch judge in The Hague has ruled that Samsung has violated one patent, and...
Hi Dave, Apple got their iPad design from 2001: A Space Odyssey
In what has to be one of the most hilarious, sad, and genius attempts at discrediting a patent, Samsung has pointed to a 2001: A...
Disk Utility is now guilty of patent infringement according to Software Restore Solutions
In what seems to be becoming a daily occurrence, someone is suing Apple for something they have been doing for quite some time, in this...