The whole patent system needs to be overhauled. I’m not defending Apple if they did something wrong then they should pay up but small companies patent trolling big companies is not the way to run a business. You are correct, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas is notoriously known as the home of Patent Trolls..
Apple has a product, so itâs hardly patent trolling.
Apple may have to pay its employees extra for time it spends rifling through their personal belongings at work, if it loses a long-running lawsuit that is now in front of the Californian Supreme Court. The American state’s Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is kicking the thorny question of whether employees are entitled to pay while they stand around waiting for the firm’s bag-fondlers – defined …
Courtesy of Apple, most of its chipmaker or designers seem to be having a rough start in 2017. One of these names will have to be the leading American chipmaker, Qualcomm, who Cupertino is presently embroiled in an ongoing patent royalties payment battle with. For those unaware, Apple first took a stand against the chipmaker and lodged a billion lawsuit against them for being charged unfairly …
The legal battle between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) continues to heat up, with Apple officially confirming it will no longer pay royalties to the chipmaker until their lawsuit is settled. MacRumors has some notes on the ongoing legal battle: The legal dispute between the two companies follows a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission, stating that Qualcomm …
Apple is urging a federal judge to shut down a false advertising class action brought by iPhone and iPad users who say they were duped into believing that phones would protect their privacy. The company’s request, filed late last week, is the latest development in long-running litigation over allegations that Twitter, Yelp and other app developers uploaded people’s address books. The dispute …
A Beijing court has overturned a ruling that Apple’s iPhone 6 violated a Chinese manufacturer’s patent which saw the US tech giant ordered to cease selling the smartphone in China. In May last year the Beijing intellectual property bureau had ruled that Apple violated design patents of Chinese maker Shenzhen Baili with its iPhone6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and would be barred from selling those …
A putative class action lawsuit filed on March 16 in federal court charges that Qualcomm has an unlawful monopoly in baseband processors (also called modem chipsets). David Kreuzer, a resident of Illinois, owns an Apple iPhone 6, Apple iPad Mini 2, and Samsung Galaxy S6, each of which has a broadband processor. Kreuzer claims that he and others with similar equipment have to pay inflated prices …
On January 20 Apple sued Qualcomm for $1 Billion claiming unfair exclusionary tactics and charging excessive royalties and on January 22 Patently Apple covered the full lawsuit where Apple revealed secret licensing agreements and more. On January 25 Apple took their war against Qualcomm to Beijing China. Today Apple has launched another lawsuit against Qualcomm, this time in the U.K.
Akamai Technologies Inc. of Cambridge delivers massive quantities of online data for many of the world’s biggest companies. But one of its customers, Apple Inc., allegedly balked at the tens of millions of dollars it was paying Akamai and disabled its popular video conferencing service FaceTime in a bid to cut costs, according to a lawsuit filed in a federal court. The case filed in early …
Apple has been hit with a class action lawsuit in California. This one alleges that the company purposely broke FaceTime on iOS 6 to force users to upgrade to iOS 7 to regain functionality. The move, according to the lawsuit, was done to avoid paying high data costs to Akamai.