Tag: legal
Samsung withdraw European Apple injunctions so that you've got supreme "consumer choice"
There may finally be a light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to the never ending court room clashes between Apple and Samsung over patent infringements. Samsung has withdrawn its requests for injunctions of Apple products in…
Bad Apple: Court order rewrite of half-hearted Samsung apology
Apple have been asked to rewrite and republish their court-ordered apology to Samsung after their first half-hearted attempt was deemed unacceptable and "non-compliant" by a UK court. Having lost an infringement case relating to Apple's accusation that the Samsung Galaxy…
iPhone 5 now in Samsung's patent-feud sights
Samsung and Apple's court-based patent saga continues today, with Samsung announcing that the iPhone 5 will now join the growing list of devices they believe impinge upon their patents. The iPhone 5 is in eight of Samsung's complaints, six relating…
Facebook sued over Timeline
Facebook are being sued by a Chinese company who are claiming to have created a feature identical to the Timeline feature long before Zuckerberg's empire implemented their version. Cubic Network, a Pinterest-style start-up founded by Harvard graduate Xiong Wanli, have…
Apple strike Kodak while they're down with new legal battle
Things are going from bad to worse for Kodak in 2012. First, they had to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which in turn forced them to announce they were abandoning camera production to focus on printer manufacturing in a…
Microsoft suing retailer Comet for selling pirate Windows CDs
Now here's an unexpected and downright criminal move from struggling electronics retailers Comet. They're being accused by Microsoft of producing and selling some 94,000 forged copies of Windows Vista and XP recovery discs out of a factory in Hampshire. Microsoft…
GetJar: Apple are "taking the piss" with App Store legal threats
Free app distributors GetJar have issued a no-holds barred response to Apple, following the cease and desist order the Cupertino iPhone makers sent out over the use of the words "app store". Apple, who have sent similar legal threats…
Nokia beat Apple in long-running patent court case
Nokia have scored a rare win over smartphone rivals Apple, signing a patent license agreement with the Cupertino iPhone manufacturers that will see the Finnish phone company paid an undisclosed one-time fee alongside ongoing royalties. Nokia took Apple to court…
Twitter gets 14% UK traffic boost in wake of super-injunction whistleblowers
Twitter has seen a steep jump in usage, following the media coverage it recieved after one Twitterer used the micro-blogging platfrom to expose celebrities who had took out super-injunctions against the press. According to web-traffic analysts Experian Hitwise, Twitter saw…
Could super-injunction laws take down Twitter?
A whistleblower on Twitter over the weekend has put the worth of super-injunctions into question, after the micro-blogging platform was used to expose celebrities who had apparently put gagging orders on stories relating to their private lives. The account, which…