Tag Archive | "Legal"
Rob Enderle tries to write about Apple.. hijinks ensue
Rob Enderle’s latest article is a perfect example of how he’s either not qualified to write about tech, or that his bias against Apple is so great that he can’t possibly write about Apple without sounding like a complete fool. In his latest article, he argues that Apple going after Palm will turn Apple into […]
Continue reading...4 new lawsuits against Apple over 3G speeds
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
AppleInsider reports on the nature of the lawsuits: They, too, cite the conclusions of Swedish engineering weekly Ny Teknik that some phones aren’t sensitive enough to 3G signals and boost their own signal to compensate, creating the network conflict. Successive and independent evaluations contradict this theory, however, concluding that the iPhone 3G does not suffer […]
Continue reading...How to write about Apple when you actually know nothing – Bloomberg Style!
Monday, February 2, 2009
Take a look at this recent article from Bloomberg. It’s basically an amalgamation of random sound bites jumbled together in a failed attempt to cover the potential for a patent dispute between Apple and Palm. The title of the article is “Apple May Use ‘Nuclear Arsenal’ to Delay IPhone Rival”, and the authors show a […]
Continue reading...Apple sued again over 3G speeds
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Apple is being sued again. Shocking, really. This time, Jason Medway of California is taking App to task over allegations that the iPhone 3G has an inherent glitch that prevents it from staying on 3G networks and thus kicks users down to the slower speed Edge network. Surprisingly, and perhaps an indication of what this […]
Continue reading...Apple vs. Palm: Patent Wars
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Engadget has a great piece discussing some of the patents relevant to the recent hype surrounding Apple and Palm potentially going head to head in court over the release of the Palm Pre. It’s a welcome breath of fresh air to read some on-point analysis on a topic that most people are ill-equipped to discuss […]
Continue reading...Apple-IBM disupte resolved: Mark Papermaster to begin work at Apple this April
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Apple announced today that former IBM employee Mark Papermaster will begin work at Apple on April 24th, and will report directly to Steve Jobs. If you recall, Papermaster was initially recruited away from IBM to head up the vacancy left by Tony Fadell in Apple’s iPod division. IBM subsequently began litigation to prevent this, claiming […]
Continue reading...Apple awarded multi-touch patent
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Apple was recently awarded a patent on its application for a “Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics.” The patent application, as a whole, stretches back to 2006 and covers a wide variety of multi-touch implementations on the iPhone. With the granting of this patent, which comes in […]
Continue reading...A different point of view – Maybe Apple wasn’t threatening Palm after all
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Daniel Eran Dilger of RoughlyDrafted has an interesting article up arguing that Tim Cook did not, in fact, make a thinly veiled threat against Palm. While most other tech sites are already up in arms predicting litigation between the two tech companies (and showing no knowledge of the patent system in the process), Dilger takes […]
Continue reading...Apple settles ‘scratched iPod Nano’ class action suit for $22.5 million
Friday, January 23, 2009
Apple today agreed to a $22.5 million settlement in a class-action suit alleging that the first generation iPod Nano contained a manufacturing or design defect which caused the display to scratch up too easily. The suit alleges that Apple was aware of the defect but purposefully misled consumers by not disclosing this to potential purchasers. […]
Continue reading...Is Apple going to sue Palm?
Thursday, January 22, 2009
At yesterdays earnings conference call, Tim Cook made some revealing statements that some are interpreting as thinly veiled threats against Palm. In response to a question about iPhone competitors, Cook noted that Apple welcomes competition in the smartphone market, but that it won’t sit idly by and have its intellectual property ripped off. We like […]
Continue reading...Apple lays the smackdown on Psystar… Again.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Apple recently filed a response in opposition to Psystar’s motion to amend its counterclaims, which allege misuse of copyright on the part of Apple. In short, Apple noted that ‘copyright misuse’ is only available as an affirmative defense, and cannot be used as a cause of action in a counterclaim. Apple then goes on to […]
Continue reading...Cygnus ammends glaring error in complaint against Apple, Microsoft and Google
Monday, December 29, 2008
Last week we reported that a company named Cygnus had initiated a lawsuit against Apple, Microsoft, and Google for allegedly violating its patent regarding ‘file preview’ features. We also noted that the complaint was strangely only 4 pages long, and contained the following error: As you can see, they neglected to mention Apple, and mentioned Microsoft […]
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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