Settlement Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The 'catch' in T-Mobile's iPhone plan

by Steven Sande (Apr 26th, 2013)

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson isn't happy with T-Mobile's recently instituted plans to replace the traditional two-year contract for an iPhone with an installment plan. Ferguson's main beef with the magenta network? That although T-Mo tells customers on the new plan that they ...

iPhone 4 'AntennaGate' settlement checks now arriving

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 23rd, 2013)

The US$15 "AntennaGate" settlement checks have started arriving for qualifying iPhone 4 users. The checks are a settlement for those who filed a claim in a class action lawsuit against Apple for "misrepresenting and concealing material information in the marketing, advertising, sale and ...

Apple ordered to pay settlement in Chinese App Store copyright case

by Randy Nelson (Dec 27th, 2012)

Imagine you're an author and you find out that someone has been selling your books on the App Store without your consent -- and, worse, you don't see a dime of the profits. That's what happened to a group of eight writers in China, and a court there has decided that Apple owes them ...

Apple and HTC settle patent disputes, sign 10-year cross-licensing deal

by Michael Rose (Nov 10th, 2012)

The battle has been hot and heavy since March 2010, but the legal swords have apparently been beaten into touch-sensitive plowshares and Retina pruning-hooks. On Saturday, Apple and HTC announced that both companies have reached a settlement agreement to cover all outstanding lawsuits. The ...

Apple calls Dept. of Justice settlement proposal unlawful

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 16th, 2012)

Apple is making it known that it will not accept the ebook settlement terms proposed by the Department of Justice, says a report in Paid Content. Under the DOJ's proposal, Apple would have to sever its current contracts and renegotiate new ones with three book publishers - HarperCollins, Hachette ...

Apple and Samsung to meet in San Francisco for settlement talks

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 17th, 2012)

As reported by FOSS Patents: "Within 90 days, they will make another effort to settle their dispute. They will meet in a San Francisco courthouse for settlement talks that will be overseen by U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero." This is still semi-voluntary and doesn't mean anything will ...

Settlement may have been reached in missing iPhone 4S case

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 8th, 2012)

Remember that missing iPhone 4S that was allegedly lost at the Cava 22 lounge and tracked to a residence in San Francisco? The home was possibly searched illegally by Apple security and the home's owner, Sergio Calderon, threatened to sue. It appears the whole debacle may have been settled ...

Apple proposes settlement with Queens-area knockoff stores

by Chris Rawson (Sep 15th, 2011)

Reuters reports that two Apple-knockoff stores located in the Queens borough of New York City have been offered a settlement agreement, currently under judicial review. Apple's proposed settlement mandates that the stores hand over all products bearing Apple's trademarks and branding; one store ...

Report: Apple may have paid over $1M in iAd trademark settlement

by Mike Schramm (Nov 2nd, 2010)

This is interesting -- a consultant for Apple on the recent "iAd" trademark settlement accidentally disclosed some information about how much the payout was, and apparently it wasn't cheap. Consor says that it helped Innovate Media (the firm which has used the iAd trademark since 2006) pick up "a ...

iPod nano scratch lawsuit checks are in the mail

by Chris Rawson (Apr 8th, 2010)

According to Engadget, people are finally starting to receive settlement checks for the iPod nano class action lawsuit that was filed shortly after the first-gen nano's release in 2005. Only days after the first nano debuted, people started noticing that the iPod nano's screen was about as easy to ...

Apple settles out MacBook class action lawsuit

by Mike Schramm (Mar 26th, 2008)

Almost a year after those two photogs first tried to bring a class-action suit against Apple for supposedly underperforming colors on MacBook and MacBook Pro LCD screens, our own Mike Rose has been proven right -- Apple has "quietly settled" the suit, and presumably Apple didn't have to pay much: ...

Apple Inc. and Apple Corps Ltd. finally settle trademark dispute, still no major iTunes release from Beatles

by David Chartier (Feb 5th, 2007)

Apple Inc. and the Beatles' record label Apple Corps Ltd. have finally buried the hatchet and settled their very, very on-going dispute over 'Apple' related trademarks. After more than a decade of fighting over Apple's use of the name in selling music-related products, as well as music itself with ...

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 ...