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Court Nixes Damages Theory Behind Apple, Broadcom $1.1B Verdict Over WiFi Patents

Feb 7 2022 // A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out a jury verdict ordering Apple Inc. and Broadcom Inc. to pay $1.1 billion to the California Institute of Technology for infringing its Wi-Fi technology patents, and ordered a new...

Apple Puts India iPhone Supplier, Foxconn, on Probation for Labor Violations

Dec 29 2021 // Apple Inc. put Foxconn Technology Group’s factory in southern India on probation following worker protests and an investigation that revealed substandard living conditions.Foxconn, which uses the facility to assemble...

Thai Activists’ iPhones Targeted by ‘State-Sponsored Attackers,’ Warns Apple

Nov 24 2021 // BANGKOK – Apple Inc. issued on Wednesday alert messages to at least six Thai activists and researchers who have been critical of the government, warning it believed their iPhones had been targeted by...

Live Nation, Apple, Travis Scott Face $2 Billion Suit Over Astroworld Crush

Nov 19 2021 // A Texas trial attorney has filed a $2 billion lawsuit following the Astroworld music festival crush that killed 10 people and left hundreds more injured.The lawsuit filed by Houston attorney Thomas J. Henry is on behalf of...

Judge Says Apple Must Face Siri Privacy Lawsuit

Sep 3 2021 // A federal judge on Thursday said Apple Inc. must face nearly all of a proposed class action lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated Siri assistant violates users’ privacy.U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White said the...

Apple Loses Patent Trial as Jury Awards Optis Wireless $300 Million

Aug 16 2021 // A U.S. jury on Friday awarded Optis Wireless Technology LLC and several related companies $300 million in damages after a second patent trial against iPhone maker Apple Inc. A jury had previously found that Apple had...

Judge Tosses Patent Infringement $308M Jury Verdict Against Apple

Aug 9 2021 // Apple Inc. persuaded a federal judge to throw out a $308.5 million jury verdict it lost to a privately-held licensing firm for infringing a patent associated with digital rights management.In a Thursday night decision,...

Apple Faces UK Lawsuit over Claims It Overcharged 20 Million App Store Users

May 11 2021 // Apple Inc is facing a London lawsuit over claims it overcharged nearly 20 million UK customers for App Store purchases, yet another legal headache for the tech giant fighting lawsuits across the world.Apple’s 30%...

Apple Says It Will Appeal $309M Jury Verdict Over Patent Infringement

Mar 22 2021 // A federal jury in Texas said Apple Inc must pay about $308.5 million to Personalized Media Communications LLC (PMC) for infringing a patent associated with digital rights management.The jurors late on Friday directed Apple...

Judge Throws Out Apple Copyright Claims Against Security Software Startup Corellium

Dec 30 2020 // A federal judge in Florida on Tuesday dismissed Apple Inc.’s copyright infringement claims against a Florida startup whose software helps security researchers find vulnerabilities in Apple products including the...

Apple Faces Shareholder Class-Action Suit over CEO’s China Sales Comments

Nov 6 2020 // Apple Inc has been ordered to face a proposed class-action lawsuit by shareholders who accused Chief Executive Tim Cook of concealing falling demand for iPhones in China, resulting in billions of dollars of investor...

Apple Can’t Dodge California Lawsuit Claiming Sex-Bias for Canceled Contract

Aug 27 2020 // Apple Inc. can’t dodge a lawsuit in which it’s accused of canceling a contract with a janitorial service because the owner is a woman.In a tentative ruling last week in California state court in San Jose, Judge...

Chinese Artificial Intelligence Firm Sues Apple for $1.4 Billion Over Siri

Aug 3 2020 // Chinese artificial intelligence company Shanghai Zhizhen Intelligent Network Technology Co. Ltd,. also known as Xiao-i, has filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc, alleging it has infringed on its patents.The company is calling...

N.Y. AG Urges Apple, Google to Protect Consumers Using Contact Tracing Apps

Jun 16 2020 // New York Attorney General Letitia James has urged Apple, maker of the iPhone, and Google, developer of the Android operating system, to take steps to protect consumer information and privacy as New Yorkers and Americans...

COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps Proving Not Much of a Help Thus Far

May 21 2020 // Harnessing today’s technology to fight the coronavirus pandemic is turning out to be more complicated than it first appeared.The first U.S. states that rolled out smartphone apps for tracing the contacts of COVID-19...

Europe Needs Its Own Approach to Coronavirus Tracing, Say German Tech Startups

Apr 15 2020 // Europe should not cede its sovereignty to Silicon Valley when it comes to using technology to help trace those at risk of coronavirus infection, the German developers of a smartphone app said on Tuesday.Apple and Google...

Safety Board Hits Tesla Autopilot Design, Regulator’s ‘Misguided’ Approach

Feb 26 2020 // The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday sharply criticized Tesla Inc.’s lack of system safeguards in a fatal 2018 Autopilot crash in California and called U.S. regulators’ approach in overseeing the...

Declarations

Feb 24 2020 // “The defendants’ statements were privileged; such a privilege cannot be evaded simply by relabeling a deficient claim.”— Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Barbara Lenk stated in her...

Apple, Broadcom Must Fork over $1.1B to Caltech in Patent Lawsuit

Feb 3 2020 // A federal jury has decided that Apple Inc. and Broadcom Inc. must pay $1.1 billion to the California Institute of Technology for infringing on patents.Apple was on the hook for nearly $838 million of the damages awarded in...

Jury Orders Apple, Broadcom to Pay $1.1 Billion for Infringing CalTech Wi-Fi Patent

Jan 31 2020 // Apple Inc. and Broadcom Inc. must pay $1.1 billion in damages for infringing California Institute of Technology patents on Wi-Fi technology, a jury in California ordered.Apple was ordered to pay $837.8 million while...