All the stories tagged with legal
Samsung Probes Apple-HTC Settlement
11/16/2012, Samsung has been eavesdropping after all. Last week, Apple and HTC shocked the entire tech industry when both signed a 10-year licensing agreement for “current and future patents.” Although the details of the deal were not disclosed, a critical question [...]
Apple can add Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and Samsung can add the iPhone 5, says judge
11/16/2012, The Apple versus Samsung battle is far from being over. Last week, we reported that Apple is planning to include the Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet and Android Jelly Bean to its almost-endless patent lawsuit. Samsung, on the other hand, is [...]
iPhone 5 Added To List Of Patent Infringing Devices
11/15/2012, The legal battle between Samsung and Apple continues, as it seems that the list of infringing devices has been lengthened yet again with the inclusion of the iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy Note and Samsung Galaxy S3. U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul [...]
Surface tablet owner sues Microsoft for lack of storage
11/14/2012, Andrew Sokolowski should have read our review first before getting a 32GB Surface tablet. Sokolowski, a lawyer in Los Angeles, is now suing Microsoft because the Surface tablet that he bought didn’t have all the storage space that it advertised. [...]
Uber Sued by San Francisco Taxis For “Unfair Competition”
11/14/2012, The Taxi industry is often seen as an old and low-tech industry, but here in Silicon Valley, they are learning from their high-tech peers: San Francisco taxi drivers are suing transportation company Uber (no link w/ Ubergizmo other than good [...]
Samsung doesn’t want to negotiate with Apple, it wants to settle everything in court
11/14/2012, Samsung isn’t giving up the blue line, much less, give Apple a run for its own money. J.K. Shin, Head of Samsung’s mobile and IT division, told reporters today that the South Korean consumer electronics giant has no plans of [...]
UK court unhappy with Apple’s non-apology
11/13/2012, Do you think that we have this rebellious streak in us? If you have answered in the affirmative, then it certainly shows that a company like Apple, too, has such a trait – after all, companies are managed by humans. [...]
Apple reportedly settled with the Swiss Federal Railways for $21 million
11/12/2012, Back in September, Apple ran into some legal trouble over the design of the Clock app for the iPad, where the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) claimed that Apple did not have the right to use the design as they did [...]
Apple and HTC finally make peace with 10-year licensing agreement
11/12/2012, Both Apple and Samsung are still at each other’s throats in the courts, but it looks like as far as the beef that Apple and HTC had with each other, well it seems that it might have been put on [...]
Apple loses lawsuit against VirnetX over VPN patent, ordered to pay $368 million in damages
11/07/2012, Usually when Apple makes the headlines concerning legal matters, it’s usually when they are butting heads with their Android competitors, namely Samsung, Motorola, HTC and the likes. Well it looks like this time around, Apple has made the headlines in [...]
Apple goes after Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
11/06/2012, After winning one billion dollars from its historical lawsuit against Samsung in August, Apple is now going after the Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet and Google’s latest Android operating system – Jelly Bean. The report comes from Bloomberg who says that the [...]
Posting Your Vote Photo On Social Networks May Be A Felony (Seriously)
11/06/2012, On this election day, many feel “liberated” that they have finally been able to cast their vote, but also that the campaign is over. In the excitation of the moment, many people snap a shot of their vote and post [...]
Apple publishes revised Samsung apology on its U.K. website
11/05/2012, Following the order released last week by the U.K. court to revise Apple’s statement on its U.K. website, the Cupertino-based tech titan has now posted a revised statement that is in compliance with the court order. The revised statement, as [...]
