GoodeReader reported last week on the current state of anti-trust
investigations against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers.
In the Special Events hall of today's IDPF Digital Book event, a last minute guest speaker, Paul Aiken from the Author's Guild, gave a ten - minute one - sided explanation of the DoJ
investigation against Apple and five publishers but he somehow managed to insert the phrase, «Amazon's predatory pricing model,» three times, despite the fact that Amazon is not named in the investigation or lawsuits.
The European Commission has formally launched their official
investigation against Apple and various book publishers.
Earlier this year, the Justice Department in the USA launched
an investigation against Apple and the big six publishers.
What began life as a class action lawsuit filed by Seattle - based law firm Hagen Bermans on behalf of consumers quickly became a Department of Justice
investigation against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers.
The French prosecutor's preliminary
investigation against Apple is surrounding deception and planned obsolescence of its older devices.
Not exact matches
First, the competitive pricing — a tactic that certainly did not win the world's largest digital retailer and friends in the US, as evidenced by the excuses born out of the recent Department of Justice
investigation and lawsuit
against Apple and several publishers — that Amazon could support made e-readers finally something more of a tool than an investment.
As part of the terms in the ongoing proceedings
against Apple in an ebook price fixing anti-trust lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice, Judge Denise Cote ordered an external monitor to ensure that
Apple did not enter into any further collusion that would fall under the scope of the
investigation.
In the
investigation launched by the Department of Justice
against Apple, Inc and five large publishing houses for alleged price - fixing in order to severely wound Amazon.com, the publishers have successfully been divided as to the outcome.
Three of the five publishers named in the class - action lawsuit and the Department of Justice
investigation and suit
against Apple and Penguin, Macmillan, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and Harper Collins have already settled out of court with the DoJ, but today the judge on the case took another of those three... [Read more...]
In China, for instance, is launching a stricter
investigation against how Amazon and
Apple filter illegal eBooks.
Samsung's counsel told the court that the purpose of the latest modification of the prayers for relief is to avoid a stay of the Mannheim proceedings pending resolution of the European Commission's ongoing antitrust
investigation of Samsung's SEP assertions
against Apple.
Samsung won two SEP - based injunctions
against Apple in Korea (which it can't currently enforce while on appeal), a fact that has given rise to an antitrust
investigation of Samsung's conduct vis - à - vis
Apple, and a Japanese court sided with
Apple against Samsung.
The Commission has recently remanded the
investigations of Motorola Mobility's complaints
against Apple and Microsoft.
Apple told the ITC about the DoJ
investigation as part of its defense
against Samsung's request for a U.S. import ban
against Apple's core products.
Apple CEO Tim Cook will be deposed on June 27 as a part of a Qualcomm countersuit
against the tech giant, accusing
Apple of lying to regulators in order to spark government
investigations.
Those same sources also reiterated that it is very early days in the
investigation and that it is too soon to know whether any action will be taken
against Apple.
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.