The lawsuit filed against Apple accused the company and the publishers of preventing other sellers of e-books from competing in terms of price.
While legal proceedings move at a snail's pace, it's not surprising that the ongoing
lawsuit filed against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers is still slowly unfolding.
I just finished reading U.S. District Judge Denise Cote's 56 - page opinion and order in the eBooks class action
lawsuit filed against Apple and five Defendant Publishers.
As with many of the recent
lawsuits filed against Apple, this particular class action suit accuses Apple of purposely slowing down the speed of older iPhones with a software update.
Not exact matches
Apple has
filed a $ 1 billion
lawsuit against Qualcomm, claiming that for many years, the chip manufacturer has «unfairly insisted on charging royalties for technologies they have nothing to do with,» CNBC reports.
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, a consumer rights action law firm that also represented consumers in a recent $ 400 million
lawsuit against Apple (aapl) for price fixing,
filed the New York
lawsuit.
Qualcomm
filed a breach of contract
lawsuit late Tuesday
against four Taiwanese contract manufacturers that build iPhones and iPads for
Apple — the latest salvo in an escalating war between two tech giants over patent royalties.
Apple has
filed lawsuits against Qualcomm in the U.S., United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan and elsewhere, alleging it engages in an illegal scheme to charge too much for patents.
Apple filed a
lawsuit against Qualcomm over its patent licensing agreements.
Apple on Jan. 20
filed a
lawsuit against Qualcomm, alleging the firm withheld $ 1 billion of rebates and payments it owed.
In May, Lodsys
filed lawsuits against seven small software development firms, claiming the apps they create to run on
Apple's iOS and Google's Android mobile operating systems infringe their patents.
Most people reading this are already aware of the patent
lawsuits Apple has
filed against Samsung.
Of course, Samsung ups the ridiculous ante when they also suggest the circular face is their invention — but it is hard to blame them when you consider the
lawsuits Apple has
filed against them for ideas based on shapes.
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.
According to Bloomberg, the U.S. DOJ just
filed an antitrust
lawsuit against Apple over the pricing of eBooks.
Apple also
filed a
lawsuit against German company Jay - tech, who also manufacture tablets.
Earlier this year, the owners of The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, N.Y., Fiction Addiction in Greenville, S.C., and Posman Books in New York City,
filed a
lawsuit against Amazon and the publishers for both the DRM conspiracy and a separate allegation that they were in violation of the Sherman Act — the same Act that factored in an important way in the DOJ
lawsuit against Apple — for trying to gain a monopoly on the industry.
News came out this week that Hagens Berman, the same Seattle - based law firm that initiated the class action
lawsuits against Apple for its role in the anti-trust violations and price fixing collusion with the now - Big Five publishers, has
filed a suit
against Google, alleging anti-trust violations that led the search... [Read more...]
Most Kindle Nation Daily readers are aware that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has
filed a major antitrust
lawsuit against Apple and the five original «agency model» publishers charging them with a massive price - fixing conspiracy in violation of federal law.
They are weighing their options to see if they want to
file a
lawsuit against Apple, Penguin Group, Macmillan, Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster.
Minnesota residents are able to
file their own
lawsuits against the publishers and
Apple, but were not included in the much - discussed
lawsuit.
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 US Justice Department have officially
filed a massive
lawsuit against Hachette, HarperCollins,
Apple, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster.
On the eve of Amazon's Android Appstore launch,
Apple has
filed a
lawsuit against the company for trademark infringement, seeking to keep the phrase all to themselves.
If you are looking for a basic but excellent primer on the entire price fixing
lawsuit that the U.S. Department of Justice
filed against Apple and five of the big six publishers (Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and Penguin), you can't do better than this excellent summary at Dear Author.
Apple has issued a rare public comment in response to the price fixing
lawsuit filed against it and several large ebook publishers by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Florida - based Operating Systems Solutions has
filed a patent infringement
lawsuit against Apple.
Last week, the Department of Justice
filed a
lawsuit against Apple and five publishers for allegedly colluding on e-book prices, and class - actions suits in the U.S. continue.
The U.S. Justice Department
filed a
lawsuit against Apple and five major U.S. publishers in April 2012, accusing them of conspiring to fix prices for e-books.
A 2013 trial date for a
lawsuit recently
filed by the U.S. government
against Apple has been set, according to a report by Reuters.
And then there's the response to the price fixing
lawsuit the Department of Justice
filed against Apple and five of the big six publishers.
Proview has
filed a
lawsuit against Apple, on February 17, at the Superior Court of the State of California.
Yesterday's report that the Justice Department may be near
filing an antitrust
lawsuit against five large trade book publishers and
Apple is grim news for everyone who cherishes a rich literary culture.
On April 11, 2012, the department
filed a civil antitrust
lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
against Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster, for conspiring to end e-book retailers» freedom to compete on price by taking control of pricing from e-book retailers and substantially increasing the prices that consumers paid for e-books.
The United States Department of Justice has warned
Apple and five top U.S. book publishers that it plans to
file an antitrust
lawsuit against them, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday evening.
A union of companies led by Google, as well as
Apple on its own, have
filed motions to dismiss a sweeping patent
lawsuit launched
against them by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Interval Licensing.
The Department of Justice
filed a
lawsuit against Apple (s AAPL) and five big publishers this morning, accusing them of colluding to fix e-book prices.
Apple has started to push out the payments to affected consumers in settlement of the e-book price fixing
lawsuit filed against the company.
On Tuesday, EMI — which controls rights to the Beatles» recordings in conjunction with
Apple Corp. —
filed a federal copyright
lawsuit against BlueBeat and its parent company, Media Rights Technologies, alleging that they are conducting «one of the largest piracy operations on the Internet.»
Reuters reports that a putative class action
lawsuit was
filed last week in the U.S. District court for the Northern District of California
against Apple and AT&T over antenna problems with the newest iPhone model.
In mid-August, Google's Motorola unit
filed a new
lawsuit against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission.
I can understand that
Apple, almost three years after having
filed its first
lawsuit against Samsung, is disappointed with the fact that it has no enforceable remedies in place in the United States.
This is what is alleged in a Florida personal injury
lawsuit recently
filed against Apple Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
The California Institute of Technology recently
filed an infringement
lawsuit against Apple and wireless chipset maker Broadcom whose technologies
Apple uses.
According to a Reuters report,
Apple has turned down an invitation to join Microsoft (s msft) and Sony in backing a new IV patent acquisition fund that could be used as a vehicle to extract licensing fees and
file lawsuits against companies.
Several
lawsuits have been
filed against Apple accusing the company of deliberately slowing devices to encourage upgrades, which
Apple says it does not do.
Omni MedSci
filed a
lawsuit in the Eastern district of Texas today, claiming that
Apple willfully infringed on its patents and asking for an injunction
against Apple along with damages.
Thus, Omni MedSci is now claiming in its
lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Texas that
Apple willfully infringed on its patents and wants an injunction
against the company along with damages.
Apple has to face at least 61
lawsuits that were
filed against the iPhone maker soon after the company acknowledged that it slowed iPhones down via software to prevent unexpected shutdowns caused by...
63,767 South Korean consumers have
filed a class action
lawsuit demanding 12.7 billion won ($ US11.9 million)
against Apple for batterygate.