Apple Class Action
Two federal class actions claim Apple has sold MacBookPro laptops with defective keyboards since late 2016, and sells defective Apple Watches with screens that crack, shatter or detach from the body of the watch.
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Jury Hands Apple $539 Million in Years-Long Melee With Samsung
An eight-person jury on Thursday found Samsung should pay Apple over half a billion dollars for infringing three design and two utility patents of the original iPhone, another bump in the years-long war between the tech giants.
Read moreJury Deliberating With $1B at Stake in Apple-Samsung Trial
Apple went last in closing arguments Friday afternoon as they tried to convince an 8-person jury to award them more than a billion dollars in damages resulting from Samsung’s infringement of three design patents related to the original iPhone.
Read moreSamsung Pushes for Less Costly Award in Fight With Apple
It was Samsung’s turn to call witnesses at day three of the heavyweight patent fight between Apple and Samsung on Thursday. The case, which is in its third iteration at the U.S. District Court, is entirely about damages.
Read moreApple Headphones Class Action Will Proceed
Apple will remain on the hook for a class action lawsuit claiming its Powerbeats headphones stop working when they come into contact with sweat and water, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Read moreJudge Admonishes Samsung on Day 2 of Patent Trial
Both sides refined their strategies on the second day of the Apple and Samsung patent trial on Wednesday.
Read moreEgyptAir Crash
EgyptAir Flight 804 crashed on May 19, 2016, killing all 66 people aboard between Paris and Cairo, partly because an Apple computer overheated and caught fire in the cockpit, families claim in court.
Read moreApple-Samsung Damages Redux Kicks Off in Silicon Valley
In the seemingly never-ending smartphone patent war between Apple and Samsung, both sides delivered opening arguments in a Silicon Valley federal courtroom, this time on how to fairly calculate damages Samsung owes Apple for infringing five of Apple’s patents.
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An iPhone owner dismissed without prejudice Monday his federal class action accusing Apple computers of intentionally slowing the operating system in older phone models.
Read moreIreland to Collect Billions From Apple in Back Taxes
Ireland says it will begin collecting about $15.9 billion of back taxes from Apple, 19 months after the European Commission ruled that a tax deal with the tech giant amounted to illegal state aid.
Read moreApp Makers Settle Privacy Class Action for $5.3 Million
A federal judge on Tuesday finalized a $5.3 million deal to settle claims that Twitter, Instagram and other app makers uploaded Apple device users’ personal data without consent.
Read moreReport Details FBI Mistakes in Fight to Unlock Shooter’s IPhone
FBI officials did not misspeak when they testified before Congress in 2016 that they were unable to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino terror suspects, according to a report released by the Justice Department Tuesday.
Read moreExperts Sue Apple
Apple pays women “experts” less than it pays similarly situated men, a class action claims in L.A. Superior Court.
Read moreApple Loses Royalties Dispute in Fight With Samsung
A federal judge handed a minor but significant legal defeat to Apple in its long-simmering patent dispute with Samsung on Thursday evening.
Read moreEU to Probe Apple-Shazam Merger Amid Competition Concerns
Apple’s $400 million bid to buy song-recognition app Shazam hit a snag in Europe Tuesday, with regulators announcing they will examine the possibility that the merger may affect competition.
Read moreApple Cleared
The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal Monday of a class action accusing Apple of wiretapping, by failing to deliver text messages to people who had switched to other brands of smartphones.
Read moreEU Slaps Qualcomm With a $1.2 Billion Antitrust Fine
The European Commission fined technology giant Qualcomm over $1.2 billion Wednesday after finding the company had abused its dominance in the cellphone chipset market and suppressed competition.
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