All the stories tagged with: legal
Apple sues Samsung in Germany again
02/10/2012, The long running saga of lawsuits being thrown at one another between Samsung and Apple continues, where Apple has just sued Samsung in Mannheim over a patent where a Munich court denied preliminary injunction sometime last week. Apple apparently introduced [...]
Motorola loses 3G/UMTS patent lawsuit against Apple
02/10/2012, It looks like in the ongoing battle between Apple and Motorola in Germany, the latter company may have been dealt a major blow as the German courts have ruled in favor of Apple, which means that Motorola will not be [...]
Apple could face $38 million fine in China over iPad name
02/07/2012, Remember a while back Apple tried to appeal the court’s decision that the iPad trademark did not belong to Apple as far as China’s trademark registry was concerned? Well it looks like things aren’t looking up for them as Proview [...]
Apple seems to have beaten Motorola’s injunction in Germany
02/06/2012, Before the weekend begun, we reported that Motorola had successfully obtained an injunction against several of Apple’s key products in Germany. Well the good news (or bad news depending which side of the fence you’re sitting on) is that it [...]
Apple broadens Samsung lawsuit in Australia with 278 claims of patent infringement
02/03/2012, In Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple was quoted as saying that he wanted to go “thermonuclear” in the war against Android and it looks like that could very well be happening. It would appear [...]
German court grants Motorola injunction against Apple’s iCloud and MobileMe push email service and client devices (Update: Apple to appeal)
02/03/2012, The battle is fierce, and Steve Jobs who vowed to go “thermonuclear war” with Google’s Android, might actually go through with his threats if he were alive today – after putting into consideration the latest developments at a German court [...]
Apple loses iPad trademark claims in China, files for appeal
02/01/2012, It looks like if you were hoping to buy an iPad in China, eventually you might have to start looking for the device under a different name. It turns out that the Chinese courts have rejected Apple’s claims to the [...]
German court upholds Samsung tablet ban
01/31/2012, It seems that things are not going too well for Samsung – in Germany, at least, where the European Union just announced whether it would look further into Samsung’s tablet devices, and investigate as to whether the South Korean conglomerate [...]
SOPA Protest Day: the largest digital protest ever (infographic)
01/30/2012, On January 18th, it was hard to miss what was the largest (digital) protest in world’s history as millions of people, and the largest internet companies stood up against the proposes SOPA and PIPA laws (watch the 5mn “what is [...]
German court rejects Samsung’s patent infringement claims
01/27/2012, The legal battle between Apple and Samsung is far from over, and the Mannheim Regional Court rejected the second of Samsung’s patent infringement claims against Apple earlier this morning. Similar in nature to last week’s ruling, today’s decision will put [...]
Apple loses appeal for Dutch ban
01/24/2012, The two 800 lbs gorillas, Apple and Samsung, are slugging it out in the courtroom where intellectual property is concerned – with both companies “trading blows” so to speak where lawsuits are concerned. Cupertino as seen an Australian court lift [...]
Warrantless GPS tracking violates your privacy rights [Supreme Court]
01/23/2012, You may think that law enforcement agencies could not plant a GPS tracker to a car without a warrant, but many people have woke up to the fact that until now, it was a growing practice, thanks to the falling [...]
German courts reject one of Samsung’s patent infringement claims against Apple
01/20/2012, In what appears to be the never-ending battle between Apple and Samsung, it looks like Samsung may have been dealt a minor blow in Germany when the German courts denied one of their patent infringement claims against Apple. However it [...]
