By Ron Duwell |
The latest lawsuit filed against Apple isn’t coming from one of its competitors or the Chinese government, but rather another disgruntled American customer. A Florida woman has filed a $5M class action lawsuit in San Jose, CA against Apple for the faulty power button in…
By Todd Haselton |
The European Union recently said that Motorola Mobility, now a part of Google, was abusive toward Apple as an owner of GPRS patents in an effort to win an injunction against Apple products in Germany. The ruling in favor of the injunction eventually forced Apple…
By Todd Haselton |
Nokia said Monday that it was granted an injunction against the HTC One after an Amsterdam court ruled in its favor. “HTC has no license or authorization from Nokia to use these microphones or the Nokia technologies from which they have been developed,” the company…
By Todd Haselton |
Google was recently slapped with a 145,000 Euros fine in Germany after a court ruled that it was illegally collecting private data from its users. The company was collecting and storing data related to private Wi-Fi networks as its Google Street View cars cruised down…
By Todd Haselton |
A judge with the United States International Trade Commission said Friday that Samsung infringed on a patent owned by Apple that’s related to how a user can select text. Two patents were in question, and a second one also owned by Apple relates to technology…
By Ron Duwell |
Apple’s China problems continue to pile up and up. The state-owned Shanghai Animation Film Studio has filed a $530,000 lawsuit against the company for the distribution of 110 of its cartoons. The only hiccup is that these cartons are not directly distributed through iTunes but…
By Adriana Lee |
The news about Google’s Street View privacy violation may not surprise the most jaded among us. Who doesn’t remember the public complaints from people who didn’t want their front yards or even living room windows photographed? But those worries seem quaint compared to the current…
By Todd Haselton |
Google officially settled issues involving Street View and privacy concerns on Tuesday by paying a $7 million fine. The settlement involves 37 states and the District of Columbia, CNET said. The company’s Street View technology, a feature within its Maps application that allows you to see images…
By Adriana Lee |
Ever performed an “ego search” or “vanity search”? Of course you have. Who isn’t curious about what happens when you plug your own name into Google? But what if the things that pop up aren’t so favorable, like an unflattering suggested query. Would you get…
By Todd Haselton |
An Instagram user leveraged a lawsuit against the social network after it decided to change its terms of service to include some seemingly bizarre content controls. The case is still in front of a judge in San Francsico, and now Instagram is asking that the…
By Adriana Lee |
Remember the tidbit last month about the woman who got slapped with a $750,000 lawsuit for writing a scathing review of her contractor on Yelp and Angie’s List? Jane Perez didn’t just recount her frustrations, she also levied accusations involving missing jewelry and urged people not to hire the…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back to tackle more questions and queries from Buffalo readers, viewers and fans! In this episode, Jon answers one of the more asked about topics regarding last week’s ATB episode – What’s up with the legal documents hanging in his office? What’s…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple on Friday added six new Samsung devices to its lawsuit in California, just a few days after the Korean company added the iPhone 5 to its own list of infringing devices. It’s quite obvious neither company is willing to back down from its claims,…
By Todd Haselton |
We’re big fans of Speck Products around here. You might know them best as the company that creates dozens of iPhone, iPad and other phone/tablet cases. One of the company’s more popular product lines, dubbed “CandyShell” was recently copied and sold by counterfeiters. Speck announced…
By Todd Haselton |
HTC recently settled a patent lawsuit with Apple and, meanwhile, Samsung says it wants to continue to fight against the iPhone maker. Reuters notes, however, that the Apple/HTC licensing deal didn’t reveal to the public whether or not HTC is licensing all of Apple’s patents in question,…
By Todd Haselton |
HTC recently settled its patent suits with Apple and now it appears that Google’s Motorola Mobility is working to do the same, at least with some patents. Bloomberg said Friday that the two firms are currently in discussions to resolve patents “related to critical smartphone…
By Todd Haselton |
HTC recently settled a patent dispute with Apple by agreeing to pay it a small fee for each Android smartphone sold. There has been speculation that, since HTC was able to settle, we would soon hear about similar agreements between Motorola, Samsung…
By Todd Haselton |
VirtnetX just won $368.2 million in damages from Apple after a jury ruled that the iPhone maker infringed on four of VirnetX’s patents. The VPN company isn’t done yet, though. It announced Thursday that it has filed a brand new lawsuit against Apple alleging that…
By Brandon Russell |
The dissolving relationship between Apple and Samsung may not just mean a few less screens or chips. For Samsung, severing ties could potentially affect entire factory construction plans, according to a new report. DigiTimes isn’t always the most reliable source, but “industry sources” say plans…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple recently won a ruling in the United States under which Samsung will pay the iPhone maker more than $1 billion in damages, but the fight continues on. Apple on Tuesday reportedly added Android 4.1 and the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 to its lawsuit against…
By Todd Haselton |
A federal judge has dismissed a patent lawsuit Apple leveraged against Google’s Motorola Mobility, Reuters said on Monday. Apple originally claimed that Motorola Mobility, now owned by Google, had unfair terms for licensing its patents. This isn’t the first time the two firms have been locked…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple recently settled a trademark dispute with Proview in China, which was trying to prevent the Cupertino-based company from selling any device under the “iPad” moniker. Now, the company is facing a similar situation in Mexico where a judge has ruled that Apple is infringing…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple recently published its required letter on its website stating that Samsung didn’t infringe on its patents. It wasn’t supposed to be an apology, per se, but that’s what most pundits have been calling it. Except, as expected, it wasn’t much of an apology to Samsung…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple has responded to Samsung’s claims that jury foreman Vel Hogan was biased against the Korean company, saying that, basically, it’s much too late to complain now. Following the monumental billion dollar verdict from August, Samsung did some digging on Hogan and found that he…
