Apple's legal battle against accusations that it intentionally slows down older iPhones to incentivize customers to upgrade to newer models will likely take place in one courtroom near the company's headquarters in California.The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has disclosed that it will consider consolidating dozens of iPhone performance - related
complaints filed against Apple during a hearing scheduled for Thursday, March 29 in Atlanta, Georgia, as is routine for similar cases filed across multiple states.Apple currently faces 59 putative class actions across 16 district courts in the United States.
Believe it or not there were three similar
complaints filed against Apple this past Wednesday and Thursday as follows: Diamond v. Apple Inc et al; Evans et al v. MacMillan, Hachette Book Group et al (which lists Apple as lead Defendant); and Grover et al v. Macmillan, Simon Schuster, Hachette Group et al (which lists Apple as lead defendant).
Not exact matches
A South Korean consumer group
filed a criminal
complaint against Apple CEO Tim Cook over slower iPhone devices.
Foss Patents unearthed a paragraph from the Samsung
complaint which mentions that
Apple also
filed a
complaint against Motorola, related to the design of the Xoom tablet.
The case began in 2012, when the Department of Justice
filed an antitrust
complaint against Apple.
Prior to or simultaneously with the motion for a preliminary injunction
against Samsung,
Apple also
filed a
complaint with the same court over the design of the Motorola Xoom tablet.
The Justice Department has at last
filed an anti-trust
complaint in New York
against Apple and five publishers over an alleged price fixing conspiracy.
Click here for the 36 - page
complaint filed today by the Department of Justice
against Apple and five major publishers charged with conspiring to fix e-book prices.
The Justice Department has at last
filed an anti-trust
complaint in New York
against Apple (s AAPL) and five publishers over an alleged price fixing conspiracy.
Motorola
filed its most recent ITC
complaint against Apple so late into last week that the court system couldn't immediately provide more details; we're only just seeing documents now that the weekend is over.
The
complaint against Apple was
filed by French pro-consumer group Stop Planned Obsolescence (HOP).
The
complaints come after
Apple filed its own patent - infringement lawsuit
against Qualcomm on Wednesday for using tech in its Snapdragon mobile phone chips that belong to
Apple.
A French environmentalist group even
filed a criminal
complaint against Apple for «planned obsolescence.»
The investigation comes after Seoul's Citizens United for Consumer Sovereignty
filed a
complaint against Apple, alleging that
Apple is actually throttling older iPhones in an effort to persuade consumers to upgrade to the latest model.
That may be about to change, however, as AppleInsider reports that
Apple has added both the Samsung Galaxy S III and the Galaxy Note to a separate
complaint that it
filed this past February that asserted eight utility patents
against 17 different Samsung products.