So close
Apple may not need to pay $533 million to Smartflash over supposed patent violations, as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has invalidated two of the relevant patents, following the previous invalidation of the third.
Ruh Roh
Biometrics firm Valencell has filed suit against Apple, alleging that the company used deceptive practices to obtain information on its heart rate sensor technology before implementing it in the Apple Watch.
Dismissed?
According to a court filing today, Apple has moved to have an employee poaching lawsuit with battery manufacturer A123 Systems dismissed. This comes just a week after it was reported that Apple was exploring a settlement with A123 after the battery manufacturer accused the tech giant of poaching several of its key engineers. Reuters reports: Apple Inc asked a U.S. court on...
Settle It
According to a new court filing, Apple appears to be exploring a potential settlement with A123 Systems after the battery manufacturer filed suit against the tech giant for allegedly poaching its employees. The court filing was originally spotted by Reuters, which reported the following: In a court filing on Tuesday, Apple asked a Massachusetts federal judge for an extension of...
More Poaching Problems
Apple is currently facing yet another lawsuit involving accusations of employee poaching. A recent filing from A123 Systems, a battery manufacturer, claims that Apple poached several engineers from the company for its new battery division, violating agreements set forth in their employment contracts in the process. The report comes from Law360: A123 filed suit Feb. 6 in...
Settle all the things!
Update: Reuters has just reported that the final amount of the settlement is $415 million. Original Story: Apple, along with several other tech companies, has reached a settlement deal today in a class action suit concerning anti-poaching policies that may have suppressed wages among tech workers in Silicon Valley. While it's unclear what the terms of the settlement are, the judge...
Victory!
Apple has scored another legal victory today, this time in a case concerning defective logic boards in MacBooks sold since May of 2010. The case was dismissed on grounds that plaintiffs weren't able to prove that the logic boards used were "unfit for their ordinary purpose." From Reuters: U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco said the plaintiffs, Uriel Marcus and...
Hearing Conspiracy
Though it seems like the myriad of lawsuits involving Apple have died down a bit, it looks like the Apple-owned Beats is about to be embroiled in another. Tech company Monster has decided to file a suit over accusations that Beats co-founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine failed to properly acknowledge Monster's role in designing the technology behind Beats headphones. From USA Today:...
Too much time on my hands
It looks like Apple employees engaged in a potential lawsuit against the tech giant will have to go back to the drawing board. The case, in which Apple employees alleged that they lost wages while being forced to endure long, mandatory security checks, was thrown out by U.S. District Court Judge William Alsop. Judge Alsop cited a recent Supreme Court decision in a similar case...
Following Suit
Washington DC-based law firm Whitfield, Bryson & Mason announced that it had filed a class action lawsuit against Apple over widespread graphical issues encountered on 2011 MacBook Pros with AMD GPUs. The issue appears to stem from poor soldering between the GPU and logic board. According to the lawsuit: When the lead-free solder cracks it degrades the data flow between the...