Penguin announced this morning that the company has reached an agreement with the US State Attorneys General to pay $ 75 million as a settlement for the eBook price fixing claims that have been launched against Apple’s iBookstore.
US authorities have called Apple out for collusion with electronic book publishers, saying that the Cupertino-based company conspired with publishers to raise eBook prices when negotiating iBooks by playing them all against each other [Read More...]
Apple and Amazon are set to enter settlement talks over Amazon’s use of the term “Appstore,” Bloomberg reports. Apple has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the retail giant, claiming that its Android software store could be confused with its own App Store for iOS. A U.S. Magistrate Judge has now ordered the pair to enter talks and try to settle the case ahead of the trial.
In a [Read More...]
Apple has been having problems with Chinese writers suing for unlicensed eBook distribution in the App Store. After a group of writers asked Apple for 10 million yuan in damages for unlawfully distributing copyrighted works in certain Chinese apps, the court has forced Apple to pay a smaller settlement fee of 1.03 million yuan, which is only about $ 165,000.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
A Beijing court ordered Apple Inc. to pay 1.03 million [Read More...]
Last month, HTC and Apple reached a cross-licensing settlement that would put a 10-year kibosh on any litigation between the two. While HTC’s Peter Chou was happy enough to call the settlement “A Good Ending,†Samsung saw it as an opportunity to have injunction proceedings against them thrown out.
Samsung immediately sought access to the details of said agreement and were finally granted access by the courts. This ruling ultimately allowed for [Read More...]
Last month, HTC and Apple reached a cross-licensing settlement that would put a 10-year kibosh on any litigation between the two. While HTC’s Peter Chou was happy enough to call the settlement “A Good Ending,†Samsung saw it as an opportunity to have injunction proceedings against them thrown out.
Samsung immediately sought access to the details of said agreement and were finally granted access by the courts. This ruling ultimately allowed for [Read More...]
The saga of Geohot and Sony is now behind us. As the out-of-nowhere headlines today reveal, infamous iDevice and PS3 hacker George “GeoHot” Hotz and Sony have apparently patched things up. In fact, the two warring parties are coming to terms with their recent high-profile legal grudge match and settling matters peacefully. Moments ago, Sony and Geohot released a joint statement heralding a conclusion to the courtroom [Read More...]
