Showing posts with label litigation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label litigation. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Apple going to court because ... Siri

Frank Fazio, owner of the iPhone 4S integrated voice software supports Apple sued Siri Northern California court, saying the airline was false advertising.
 
After purchasing the iPhone 4S, Fazio realize that in their ads, Apple has mislead users about the utility that brings Siri. For example, when asked about the direction Siri to a specific location such as a store that Siri does not fully understand the contents of questions and it takes lot of time will tell, even wrong answers. Therefore he has decided to sue Apple.
 
Apple has a lot of money in regional advertising campaign for Syria, but according to Frank Fazio, Siri brings no little effect, just as the firm basis for the higher price of iPhone 4 iPhone 4S.
According to Fazio's lawyer, Apple has violated the protection of customers, competition laws of California. He is studying how to collect evidence against the 4S and the Apple iPhone, to force Apple to lower prices as well as products to compensate for all losses for his clients.
 
 
Siri is currently a software "hot" of Apple, but is still in the finishing process. Siri is provided on the iPhone 4S is only beta and Apple is still trying to expand it into other languages, in the last week Apple has updated Siri Japanese.
 
Fazio also alleges that Apple has distorted the use of Siri for potential customers. Siri makes use user fees to pay more than 3G, and will easily cause users to exceed expected 3G traffic.
An Apple spokesman declined to comment on the incident.

Monday, March 12, 2012

Apple accused Samsung violated a court order

Apple has said that Samsung did not provide the source code of the product patent violation of the company in a timely manner despite having received an order from the court last year.
It is known that under the court's ruling last year, Samsung will have to hand over source code related to these devices violate a patent (such as Galaxy Tab 10.1) for the company is headquartered in Cupertino.
 
 
According to documents sent to the federal courts in California, Apple said that Samsung only to comply with a law that the court had issued earlier, when there is only one source of the device that Apple accused Samsung of Apple breaks are handed over for inspection.
 
Handing over the code duration is 31/12, and that is not enough time for the appraisal of Apple.
Apple had no luck in San Jose when that court where Apple has failed to request a ban on the sale of Samsung products in the U.S. 4G in early December last year.
 
Conflicts between Samsung and Apple are increasingly bitter and prolonged after Apple sued Samsung infringed patents for smartphone Galaxy. Since then, the case between the two companies has spread to over 30 courts across four continents and has no signs of stopping.
 
Tablet Galaxy Tab has been banned in Australia, but ultimately the ban was removed before the end of shopping period. Samsung was also forced to redesign their tablets after a German court said banning the sale of the company's equipment in Europe.
 
However, Samsung have fought and spent a spectacular victory before Apple is also in Germany. A ban on selling the iPhone and the iPad was made here, although it only exists when a few short hours that Apple has been calling for more time before executing this command.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Galaxy Tab 10.1N all breeds recognized iPad

Samsung has been modified to look like the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet to his version of Galaxy Tab 10.1 N it is no longer enough to copy the Apple iPad.
 
The changes that Samsung Electronics has made the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet is enough for them it's no longer a copy of the Apple iPad again, on Thursday, 22/12/2011 a judge in district court in Dusseldorf ( Germany) said.
 
In May 9 / 2011, this court has banned the sale of the tablet version of 10-inch Galaxy Tab 10.1 "early" by Samsung in Germany, after Apple alleging that Samsung's products look too much like the iPad. To alter that decision, Samsung has modified the appearance of the tablet to create 10.1N Galaxy Tab.
However, Apple still feels Samsung tablets are copying it, and last month filed a petition to prevent the continued sale of Galaxy Tab 10.1N.
But it looks like Apple will not win this time. The judge issued a preliminary ruling that Samsung tablet no longer violates the patent design of Apple Europe again. So, according to a spokesman for the court, this time there would be no order.
The final decision will be issued on 02.09.2012. Both Samsung and Apple are not commenting on Thursday's statement from the court.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Smartphone HTC facing danger banned in Germany

Persistent legal battle with IPCom, a company holds patents on technology that can make HTC do not face the risk of being sold a 3G smartphone model in the German market in the coming Christmas season .

Photo: Internet
In the latest press releases, IPCom said the company has moved a document to the Taiwanese mobile manufacturer HTC, announced that it will ask the German authorities imposed a ban on consumption of all 3G devices HTC which is sold in European countries, to implement a decision taken in 2009 by a court in Mannheim, Germany, which was then recognized HTC has violated a patent owned by IPCom.
The problem is that HTC did not conduct appeal proceedings after the decision was made. And now, IPCom are looking for ways to make the official ban of Mannheim 2 years ago to be executed in time "as soon as possible", ie to all devices of HTC 3G smartphone and tablet to "turn missing from the shelves before Christmas and the holiday shopping season last year. "
The risk of being banned from consumption in Germany, one of the largest smartphone market in Europe to correct at HTC are struggling to preserve market share of global smartphone market. The latest financial report shows that HTC is likely to decline 8% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of this year. Taiwanese carriers are losing customers in the hands of rivals such as Apple and Samsung.
Viewed as a "patent troll" typical of today's technology market, IPCom - a German company - a "professional" is only so much to acquire patents and then sue other companies to earn compensation.
Before HTC, IPCom been a nightmare for many years at Nokia in the European region. IPCom patents that HTC had used against the property of Bosch Group, which is related to wireless technology.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 for resale in Australia

Sydney Court unanimously overturned the ban on the sale of Samsung tablet Galaxy Tab 10.1 that the judge federal court last month, allowing stores to sell equipment in this market.
This is the latest chapter in a patent war going on between the two companies, the war is still no sign of ending. The patent dispute between two technology companies were made in 10 countries across four continents since May 4 / 2011.
Previously, Apple has won a ban on selling after a federal judge agreed with the argument that Apple offers. Apple said that Samsung had copied a "blind" the different aspects in the design of the iPad. Patents related to touch screen technology is considered the heart of the dispute.
However, the court ruled Sydney out of the stores in Australia are only allowed to sell the Samsung tablet from 4 pm on Friday to come.
Of course, decisions of Sydney court has not really made to end the war by two electronics giants in the Australian market where according to the Sydney Morning Herald reported, Apple is to submit an appeal to the court Supreme Court in the country.
To get this achievement, the work for Samsung lawyer argued to the judge Annabelle Bennett in Australia when the Justice Court judge has said that "misunderstandings and forget" the basic requirements of the law. The Samsung also announced that one of the reasons that the judge gives to himself as "very unfair".
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will return to the Australian market during the Christmas season this year
The overturning the ban will help promote the development of Samsung Galaxy Tab and earned a large profit for the company at Christmas this year.
Of course, Samsung has proven very elated with the decision has been made by Sydney court, and the company also said that he is taking to prepare everything for 4S lawsuit against Apple's iPhone in Australia will in the future. Expected that a court settlement of this case will take place next spring.
Also related to the war between Apple and Samsung, Apple's lawyers said they will return to court next month to Germany requested a ban on the sale of the modified version, called Galaxy Galaxy 10.1 10.1N that Samsung has just released here.