Chip maker Qualcomm has filed yet
another suit against Apple, this time accusing the latter of breaking a software licence contract in order to benefit Intel in the making of broadband modems.
However, no lawsuit is quite as big as one that's brewing in South Korea — where nearly 67,000 iPhone users have applied to join
a suit against Apple.
A «patent trolling» company has filed
a suit against Apple over voicemail technology used within iPad and iPhone products.
Apple Insider has reported that attorneys on behalf of Keaton Harvey have filed
another suit against Apple.
In South Korea, 370,000 individuals — or the equivalent of one out of every 138 people who live in the country — have signed up to join a class action
suit against Apple.
Stefan Bogdanovich, a Los Angeles area man who owns an older model iPhone, filed
suit against Apple Thursday.
Emonster consequently filed
a suit against Apple in October stating that «Apple made the conscious decision to try to pilfer the name («Animoji») for itself.»
Creative Technology, based in Singapore, on Monday filed
suit against Apple Computer over patent claims.
Marcelino Elosua, head of LID Publishing, has written an open letter to the DoJ on why their antitrust
suit against Apple and the Big Five should be withdrawn.
Meanwhile, the Department of Justice
suit against Apple and five big publishers for allegedly colluding to set e-book prices drags on.
The Justice Department filed an antitrust
suit against Apple and multiple book publishers earlier this week alleging that the group colluded to fix the prices of electronic books.
The Justice Department filed an antitrust
suit against Apple >>
The Department of Justice today filed its antitrust
suit against Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster over the agency model of ebook pricing.
Nearly two days after the DOJ filed
suit against Apple (s AAPL) and publishers for allegedly colluding to fix e-book prices, Apple has released a short statement denying the accusations and criticizing Amazon's «monopolistic grip.»
Between the comments being filed in response to the proposed settlement of Department of Justice's price fixing
suit against Apple and the five publishers and news that e-books have outsold hardcovers, the old guard in publishing is looking to the sky to see if it is falling.
Under the proposed settlement, announced Wednesday morning, Penguin would pay $ 75 million to consumers represented by 33 states» attorneys general and by Hagens Berman, the Seattle - based law firm that filed the class action
suit against Apple (s AAPL) and publishers in 2011.
The announcement comes just weeks after announcing a new e-reader, the $ 139 Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight, and weeks after the U.S. Justice Department filed
suit against Apple and publishers for e-book price fixing.
, does a very good job of laying out the background of the Department of Justice antitrust
suit against Apple and the Bix 6 publishers and the possible implications for consumers, publishers, and behemoth retailer - cum - publisher Amazon, if the DoJ wins.
The DoJ
suit against Apple and five of the big six has led to a lot of speculation.
For those of you who are following the Department of Justice's price collusion
suit against Apple et al, here is the litigation schedule.
The big story this week was that the Department of Justice brought
suit against Apple and five of the Big Six publishing companies for allegedly colluding to fix prices on e-books.
In today's Publetariat Dispatch, we share some recent volleys from both sides in the Department of Justice's ongoing antitrust
suit against Apple and five large publishers.
I'd like to see a class action
suit against Apple.
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...]
As has been hinted at for weeks, the Department of Justice has filed a civil
suit against Apple and the so - called «Big Five» publishers: Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster.
News — 1) The Department of Justice files an anti-trust
suit against Apple and five publishers, three of whom have settled out of court.
In today's Publetariat Dispatch, we share a brief excerpt from, and link to, some breaking news on the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust
suit against Apple.
However, the ripple effect of the 2012 government
suit against Apple and other publishers means that nowadays, publishers set eBook prices, rather than Apple and Amazon — which changes the game.
The publishing world is still rebounding from the effects of the DoJ
suit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers, and the effects of the judgement against the parties involved is still resolving itself.
In its 2012
suit against Apple, the U.S. Department of Justice maintained that, by striking a coordinated deal to establish agency pricing for e-books, the publishers and Apple exhibited anticompetitive conduct by conspiring to fix prices.
Qualcomm on Wednesday filed
suit against Apple device manufacturers Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron and Compal Electronics for refusing to pay their licensing fees.
David Einhorn, who is a widely followed hedge fund manager, filed a law
suit against Apple on Thursday.
Boston University recently commenced a similar lawsuit campaign directly, filing
suits against Apple and dozens of other companies over a 1997 patent.
Not exact matches
Apple's
suit against Samsung, the world's largest maker of smartphones, has partly been viewed as a proxy war
against Google, which
Apple executives have derided as a copycat, swiping
Apple's innovations.
Qualcomm has countered with a patent
suit and argued that Cupertino, California - based
Apple encouraged regulators from South Korea to the U.S. to take action
against it based on false testimony.
News — 1) TeleRead has a good roundup of the latest legal filings by Penguin (PDF) and Macmillan (PDF) in the DOJ antitrust
suit and by
Apple in the class action
suit against the same defendants.
Hagen Bermans is planning to continue the
suit against two of the publishers, Macmillan and Penguin Group, as those two are holding out in the case and refusing to settle, as is
Apple.
While the publishers have settled their
suits prior to the DoJ case
against Apple for a total of $ 166 million, Judge Denise Cote, who presided over the DoJ lawsuit, still has to rule on the actual damages
Apple will pay.
The trial and subsequent proceedings have not gone well for the tech giant, with
Apple's attorneys openly stating that this amounts to nothing more than a witch hunt and that the judge presiding over the
suits has agenda
against Apple.
The
suit was filed in Manhattan, where U.S. District Judge Denise Cote is supervising pretrial proceedings in a group of at least 27 antitrust
suits by private parties
against Apple and the publishers.
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...]
Unlike
suits brought about on behalf of consumers — such as the lawsuit brought
against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for artificially overcharging customers for ebooks — this one is focused on the people who bought stock in Barnes and Noble based on information that the SEC now feels might have been false.
Apple has now amended their
suit against Amazon since the launch of the Kindle Fire.
Apple filed
suit against Amazon in March, taking aim at the company's newly launched Appstore, which sells mobile applications to users on Google's Android platform.
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.
Apple has reportedly filed a
suit against Amazon to block their use of the term «App Store.»
Apples iBookstore wields enough power to change how electronic books are sold and priced, according to plaintiffs in class - action
suits against the Cupertino, Calif., company and several traditional publishers.
But that's not the last of the news about the anti-trust
suit the DoJ filed
against Apple and the five publishers.
Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster settled their
suits in April, but Penguin, Macmillan and
Apple refused, with the two publishers denying the charges laid
against them in lengthy filings in the United States district court in New York on Wednesday.
The
suits do not allege that agency pricing itself is illegal; rather, they allege that the big - five and
Apple illegally conspired to adopt the model all at once in order to retaliate
against Amazon's discounting.