Tuesday - June 23, 2009
As a user of Apple products, I relish the mystery of what's coming next, eagerly consuming the rumors and speculation dished out by the blogs and Web sites. As a patent lawyer, however, I can't help but to eye with skepticism each new patent application served up by an Apple watcher as potential evidence of the next big thing. A published patent, by itself, is an unreliable predictor of a new product or feature. It's not that patents fail to give an accurate picture of what Apple works on. Apple appears to be aggressively patenting all of its innovations.
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Tuesday - May 5, 2009
Google and Apple are both wildly successful Web 2.0 companies that can be considered market makers in their respective fields. Another similarity that is less obvious -- but apparently very compelling to the Federal Trade Commission -- is their taste in corporate leadership.
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Tuesday - April 28, 2009
A discussion about open source technology on the tech forum site run by Virgina-based
OdioWorks is pitting the defense of a First Amendment right -- namely, freedom of speech -- against enforcement of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the tech industry's legal guiding light for the past decade.
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Wednesday - March 25, 2009
The iPhone is no stranger to competition. Just like its Mac cousins, it's constantly in a market share race against a wide-open field of contenders, and it knows its way around a courtroom, where Apple's lawyers have a habit of schooling the opposition. However, it might be games of a more casual nature that will really make or break the platform.
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Wednesday - February 11, 2009
Fans of the iPhone may not have to wait much longer for an upgrade. Apple could release three new versions of the popular mobile phone by the end of this year, suggests a research note from investment bank Canaccord Adams. The first, a 32 GB phone in multiple colors, is likely to arrive in the next six months.
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Monday - February 9, 2009
A federal judge in California ruled last week that a Florida-based maker of Apple clones may move ahead with its attempts to prove that Apple has violated federal copyright laws. Psystar has accused Apple of misusing its copyrights associated with OS X to keep Psystar from manufacturing its Mac clones, called "OpenComputers," capable of running the operating system.
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Saturday - January 31, 2009
Apple may have just thrown a big bucket of cold water all over the Palm Pre love fest, courtesy of the U.S. Patent Office. The company has officially secured the rights to the technology behind the distinctive multifunction touchscreen found on the iPhone and the iPod touch -- it's what gives you the ability to pinch and spread your fingers to zoom in and out of a photo or a Web page.
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Wednesday - January 28, 2009
A three-month dispute between IBM and Apple over a former IBM employee has been resolved, but probably to none of the parties' complete satisfaction. The two companies have agreed that Mark Papermaster, who served as vice president of IBM's blade development unit, can go to work for Apple. However, he must certify in court that he will not be using any of IBM's proprietary information.
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Thursday - December 11, 2008
A Florida-based company that makes Mac clones has upped the ante in its ongoing copyright litigation against Apple. In its latest claim in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Psystar claims that Apple has injected code into a version of its Mac OS X software that makes it impossible for unauthorized third-party computers to run the operating system.
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Wednesday - November 26, 2008
Apple is facing two more legal challenges against the iPhone. Los Angeles-based
EMG Technology filed a suit in the U.S. District Court in Texas claiming that the iPhone infringes on a patent approved last month by the Patent and Trademark Office. The patent is for an "apparatus and method of manipulating a region on a wireless device screen for viewing, zooming and scrolling Internet content."
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