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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 ...

New iPhone class action filed in NY over iPhone SIM lock-in, international roaming fees

by David Chartier (Aug 27th, 2007)

You know what they say: let the good times class action lawsuits roll! Or something like that. The latest in what I'm sure is to be a long list of iPhone-related class action lawsuits was filed in New York today over the iPhone's SIM card lock-in, as well as what the plaintiff alleges is Apple ...

Let the iPhone class-action lawsuits begin

by David Chartier (Jul 28th, 2007)

I hope somebody somewhere made a bit of cash from betting on when the first iPhone class-action lawsuit would appear, cuz this one gets us off to a strong start: Gizmodo is reporting that Jose Trujillo has filed a lawsuit over one of the most hotly debated un-features of the iPhone: its ...

Apple versus Microsoft

by Erica Sadun (Jan 16th, 2007)

So what's the real difference between Apple and Microsoft? Microsoft tries to bribe bloggers. Apple sues them. It would be hard to come up with a joke as odd as this real-life situation. Someone posted a link to a site that used iPhone screen shots to skin Windows Mobile phones. Let me repeat. It ...

Class action lawsuits filed against Apple

by David Chartier (Jan 2nd, 2007)

Just when you think Apple's financial woes have begun to recede, Forbes.com alerts us to a slew of recently filed class action lawsuits that all have the big fruit in their sights. First up is yet another complaint alleging that Apple has created a monopoly by tying iTS purchases to the iPod and ...

Apple settles iTunes UI lawsuit

by David Chartier (Sep 7th, 2006)

Someone at Apple has had to keep the checkbook on call lately. After forking over $100m to Creative for an iPod UI patent spat, Apple has just settled a second lawsuit, this time over various basic elements of the iTunes UI and functionality. We reported this way back in June of '05 when Contois ...

Apple pays $100m to Creative in patent lawsuit settlement

by David Chartier (Aug 23rd, 2006)

Remember all that talk of Creative beating Apple to the punch with patenting various elements of the iPod's UI? Today these talks came to an end, with Apple whipping out the checkbook, and Creative (I'm assuming) throwing a party. That's right: Apple has shelled out USD $100 million to Creative for ...