Settlement Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

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 ...