We’re used to hearing of Apple being the subject of a lawsuit or two. Whether it’s a huge patent litigation case against the likes of Motorola, Samsung and HTC or a class-action lawsuit instigated by disgruntled customers. In the past, these kinds of lawsuits have led to Apple recently paying out $15 per customer for its “Antennagate” issues, and…
A New York federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit against Apple over the ‘iBooks’ trademark. The suit was filed by Black Tower Press in 2011, claiming that the New-York based published acquired the trademark in 2006 and 2006. Whilst Apple has a trademark for “iBook”, used on the Mac from 1999 to 2006, it did not use the trademark in relation to ebooks…
It has emerged today that Google is playing hard to get when it comes to producing parts of its Android source code documentation. In the ongoing legal battle between Apple and Samsung, Apple complained over Google’s unwillingness to reveal parts of its Android source code documentation, arguing that Google is improperly withholding information. It…
So, Apple was sued again. Big surprise, right? This time it was by a small New York publishing company called Black Tower Press. Apparently the sci-fi and fantasy book publisher obtained the “ibooks” mark in 2006 after purchasing another publishing company that had been using the name. It’s worth noting that Black Tower never actually obtained…
Following a brief submitted by a joint amicus on the subject of sales ban in the Apple vs Samsung legal battle, Apple has contested Google’s involvement on the grounds that Google is not impartial. The brief, submitted yesterday argued that smartphones should not be subject to sales bans because the contain “trivial patented features”. It was submitted…
In legal battles of a patent infringement nature, there’s one key thing to always keep in mind. Whether or not a company can sue another for infringement depends on the kind of patent involved. “Standard Essential” patents are those that are necessary for achieving specific tasks, and are required to be licensed in a ‘Fair, Reasonable and…
Judge Lucy Koh is a name many will be familiar with by now, as she has been the presiding judge in the ongoing major legal patent battle between the two tech giants, Apple and Samsung. At the back end of summer last year, Apple was judged to be owed over $1 billion in damages by Sammy, a figure which Judge Koh later stated wasn’t correct. In March, she…
Apple’s recent history in China has been sketchy to say the least. And, as is often the case, successful companies are often the target of much criticism. Last year Apple had to pay millions to settle a case with ProView over the iPad brand name, it was recently called “arrogant” over its warranty policies and has now been fined by a Chinese court after…
Last month, we reported that in a lawsuit against Apple, Motorola (or Google) over the patent that covers proximity sensors, Google had used a quote by the late Steve Jobs in an effort to gain an advantage over Apple. Google believed that when Jobs told his biographer, Walter Isaacson, “nother breakthrough was the sensor that figured out when you put…
Apple is being taken to court yet again. This time Wyncomm is taking the tech giant to court over a patent that covers the technology of simultaneous voice and data. Wyncomm is claiming that Apple’s system of using both voice and data at the same time violates an old patent originally held by AT&T. The patent has since transfered to many…
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