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Apple requests Android source code in Samsung lawsuit

by Mel Martin (May 8th, 2013)

That's the word from Bloomberg News today. Apple has asked a US magistrate judge to force Google to turn over the Android source code. It's part of Apple's case against Samsung, and Apple continues to believe its intellectual property has been stolen. Not surprisingly, Google, who owns the ...

Apple to pay Chinese authors $118,000 for violating copyrights

by Matt Tinsley (Apr 25th, 2013)

As reported by China Daily, a Beijing court has ordered Apple to pay three Chinese authors US$118,000 in damages for selling their books without prior consent through apps available on its App Store. The lawsuit was filed against Apple by the Writers' Right Protection Union (also known as the ...

Apple asks for App Store monopoly lawsuit to be dropped

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 6th, 2013)

Apple has asked a federal judge in California for the lawsuit alleging it holds an App Store monopoly be dismissed, according to Bloomberg. The lawsuit was brought forth by several attorneys in 2011 who argued that the company holds a monopoly on app downloads because there is nowhere else a ...

Apple reportedly makes a deal with TSMC for A6X production

by Mel Martin (Jan 2nd, 2013)

With absolutely no love lost between Apple and Samsung, it's being suggested that Apple will yank processor chip production from the South Korean tech giant. A report today in the Mac Observer, quoting from The Commercial Times translated by AFP says Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company ...

Woz discusses what he'd change about Apple

by Mike Schramm (Oct 3rd, 2012)

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak recently did a Q&A over on Slashdot, and Gizmodo has boiled down his answers into five things he'd change about Apple today. There's a little bit of putting thoughts in Wozniak's head here, as he wasn't specifically talking about what he would change. Still, ...

Court upholds Apple victory in Cover Flow, Spotlight, Time Machine patents

by Mike Schramm (Sep 5th, 2012)

An appeals court in Washington has upheld a recent Apple victory on a number of different patents for features in the OS X operating system, including things like Cover Flow, Spotlight search and Time Machine. A company called Mirror Worlds is trying to get a judgment that Apple infringed on ...

Elmer-DeWitt: Apple in "no hurry" to settle iPhone patent lawsuits

by Steven Sande (Jan 9th, 2012)

To Apple-watchers -- in particular tech bloggers -- it seems like Apple is taking forever to settle the lawsuits that are pending against Samsung and other smartphone manufacturers for allegedly infringing on the company's intellectual property. On Fortune's Apple 2.0 site today, long-time Apple ...

Should Apple win current legal battles, payoff would be huge

by Michael Grothaus (Jul 29th, 2011)

Bernstein's Toni Sacconaghi believes that Apple is confident it will win current legal battles with HTC and Samsung, and is therefore in for the long haul. Apple has "more to lose" than its rivals, Sacconaghi notes, and a whole lot to win. Philip Elmer-Dewitt has highlighted the most ...

iOS developers hit by patent infringement complaints for using in-app purchase

by Erica Sadun (May 13th, 2011)

This morning, several iOS developers have tweeted that they have been served with papers regarding their applications' use of in-app purchases. PCalc Lite developer James Thomson tweeted that he received a FedEx package of legal papers this morning. Thomson lives in Scotland. As Thomson clarifies, ...

Apple wins first round in patent fight with Nokia

by Mel Martin (Mar 25th, 2011)

A Judge with the International Trade Commission in Washington has sided with Apple in a dispute Nokia brought claiming the iPhone was violating key patents. Bloomberg News and other wire services report that the ITC has found that Apple isn't violating 5 Nokia patents. Nokia had asked the ...

Apple sues HTC for patent violations

by Mel Martin (Mar 2nd, 2010)

It's a festival of lawsuits. This morning Apple has announced it is going after Taiwan based phone giant HTC for infringing on 20 patents concerning the iPhone user interface and the underlying hardware and architecture. The lawsuit was filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission and in the ...

AT&T and Verizon mutually drop lawsuits, customers rejoice

by Mel Martin (Dec 2nd, 2009)

Both companies were looking pretty stupid, with half-baked attack ads and claims, counter claims and lawsuits that get lawyers rich and customers wondering if the money might be better spent. Anyway, the Wall Street Journal and others are reporting that: AT&T Inc. (T) on Wednesday ...

Whoa! AT&T has had enough of the Verizon slams

by Mel Martin (Nov 13th, 2009)

AT&T is clearly not going to take it anymore. Today, they blasted back at Verizon for the nasty ads about AT&T coverage. In a press release today, the communications giant pulled out all the stops: "AT&T's wireless data coverage reaches 303 million people – or 97% of the U.S. ...

Psystar: What's the French Word for Lawsuit?

by Erica Sadun (Apr 15th, 2008)

Yesterday, Mike posted about the new commercial hackintosh from Psystar. Many of our readers noted that, wow, that was a lawsuit waiting to happen -- or as Fake Steve put it, Psystar is French for "We're about to go out of business". Update 11 am Tuesday: InformationWeek is reporting that Psystar ...

RIP Think Secret

by Erica Sadun (Dec 20th, 2007)

Always provocative, sometimes right, often wrong, Think Secret was our scandalous favorite rumors site and now it is gone. According to the Settlement page listed at their site, Apple and Think Secret have ended their lawsuit and Nick Ciarelli has shut down the site.Goodbye Think Secret, we'll miss ...