Apple, Samsung CEOs agree to face-to-face settlement talks
Apple and Samsung are closer than ever to a possible settlement in their long-running legal showdown over smartphone and tablet technologies. The both companies agreed to send their respective chief executives and general counsel to meet face-to-face in the next 90 days.
German court extends push e-mail injunction against iCloud, MobileMe
A German judge has extended an injunction against Apple barring the company from pushing e-mail to iCloud and MobileMe users in that country. The injunction was originally awarded after Motorola argued that Apple's push e-mai......
Apple Loses A Few Legal Battles, Wins One And Responds To DOJ Allegations
The last 24 hours has seen a number of developments regarding various legal issues that involve Apple. It’s not the most riveting news, so rather than writing them up as separate posts, we’ve decided to combine them into one, easily digestible post. Apple Responds to DOJ Allegations Late yesterday, somewhat belatedly, Apple issued AllThingsD with...
Apple allowed to intervene in Lodsys patent case
Last year, patent holder Lodsys filed lawsuits against iOS developers including James Thomson, Patrick McCarron, IconFactory, Combay, Rovio and more. Apple stepped in and filed a motion to intervene on June 9, 2011. The motion was finally granted ...
German judge upholds ban on Apple push email, Apple must pay damages to Motorola Mobility
Apple suffered a significant blow in the ongoing patent battles with Android competitors today when a Mannheim regional court in Germany ruled against an Apple appeal. The court backed an earlier decision that banned Apple from offering the service for synchronizing emails on Apple’s mobile devices that use iCloud. The court said Apple must pay damages to Motorola Mobility,...
Apple green-lighted to intervene in Lodsys lawsuit against iOS developers
After nearly a year of waiting, a federal judge has granted Apple's motion to intervene on behalf of iOS developers in a legal shakedown initiated by patent troll Lodsys. Specifically, Apple will now be allowed...
Apple Finally Able To Intervene In Lodsys Patent Troll Case [Report]
Remember Lodsys? Many of you may recall how the patent troll sued App Store developers left and right last year. Apple tried to step in and release its blood-thirsty Cupertino hounds (code for “lawyers”) on Lodsys, claiming that its third-party developers were legally covered from...Qualcomm, Intel provide source code in patent battle
Apple has some unusual bedfellows, Intel and Qualcomm, in a patent infringement case that it's fighting with Samsung in Australia. According to a Bloomberg report, Intel and Qualcomm agreed to provide the Australian court with source code that'll ...
Apple drops alert patent in Chicago litigation against Motorola
Apple and other handset manufacturers are involved in so many lawsuits that it's difficult to keep up. Earlier this week, another infringement lawsuit in Chicago that's been around for a while resurfaced because Apple dropped a patent from the law...
Future MacBooks could have this surround sound speaker system
According to an Apple patent application published by the United States Patent & Trademark Office and detailed by PatentlyApple, Apple is working to implement audio transducers in combination with multiple speakers to enable surround sound configurations on MacBook-like devices. Apple’s focus of the patent appears to be improving audio in mobile devices as speakers decrease...
Feature: How the Aussie government "invented WiFi" and sued its way to $430 million
US consumers will be making a multimillion dollar donation to an Australian government agency in the near future, whether they like it or not. The great majority won't even know about...
