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Apple welcomes trial over eBook price-fixing allegations
Posted On Thursday, April 19, 2012 By admin. Under BoyGenius Tags: apple, ebooks, hachette book group, harpercollins publishers, lawsuit, legal, macmillan, penguin group, price fixing, simon & schuster
Apple wants to go to trial to defend itself against allegations made the United States government surround a price-fixing scheme, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

Samsung claims Apple is infringing on eight patents in California documents
Posted On Thursday, April 19, 2012 By temp. Under TUAW Tags: fosspatents, lawsuit, legal, patent, patent infringement, patentinfringement, the-end, tuaw
Executives from Samsung and Apple may be sitting down to discuss patents and infringement, but the legal battle between the two companies is far from over. According to a report from FOSS Patents , Samsung accused Apple of infringing on eight patents in a California lawsuit filed last Wednesday. Rather than target only mobile devices in this suit, Samsung took out the big guns and is aiming at iPhones, iPads, Mac computers, Apple TV, iCloud and iTunes.
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New York sues Sprint for $300 million over alleged tax fraud [updated]
Posted On Thursday, April 19, 2012 By temp. Under BoyGenius Tags: boygenius, fraud, legal, mobile, new york, sprint, tax
New York on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Sprint Nextel Corp looking to collect more than $300 million, Reuters reported. The wireless company is accused of tax fraud for deliberately not collecting or paying more than $100 million in taxes over the past seven years. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed the complaint in the New York State Supreme Court on Thursday.
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‘Big brother’ black boxes to soon be mandatory in all new cars
Posted On Thursday, April 19, 2012 By temp. Under BoyGenius Tags: big brother, black box, boygenius, event data recorder, house, law, legal, senate, senate bill 1813, tracking
Beginning in 2015, all new cars in the United States will likely need to be fitted with data-recording “black boxes” very similar to the devices currently used in aircraft. The U.S
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Apple and Samsung to meet in San Francisco for settlement talks
Posted On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 By admin. Under TUAW Tags: apple, gee sung choi, geesungchoi, legal, samsung, settlement, the-end, tim cook, timcook, tuaw
As reported by FOSS Patents : " Within 90 days, they will make another effort to settle their dispute. They will meet in a San Francisco courthouse for settlement talks that will be overseen by U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph C
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Megaupload was working on IPO prior to shutdown
Posted On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 By temp. Under BoyGenius, DVICE Tags: boygenius, business, dvice, internet, ipo, kim dotcom, legal, megaupload
Before Megaupload was shut down by the United States government, the company was preparing to go public and enter the U.S. stock market with a multi-billion dollar initial public offering, TorrentFreak reported on Tuesday. Megaupload was reportedly having discussions with top auditors and several of the world’s largest investments banks, however these plans ended abruptly in January
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U.S government attempts to silence Megaupload’s lawyers
Posted On Friday, April 13, 2012 By temp. Under BoyGenius Tags: boygenius, copyright infringement, court, kim dotcom, legal, megaupload, mpaa, u.s. government
Lawyers representing the six major Hollywood studios, the United States government and Megaupload met in District Judge Liam O’Grady’s courtroom on Friday, CNET reported. The appearance pertains to digital files belonging to as many as 60 million people throughout the world that are stored on Megaupload’s 1,100 servers.
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Apple to DOJ: We’re the good guys, not the bad guys
Posted On Friday, April 13, 2012 By temp. Under BoyGenius Tags: amazon, antitrust, apple, boygenius, doj, e-books, ebooks, ibooks, ibookstore, lawsuit, legal, price fixing
In a filing with the United States district court for southern New York, Apple claims the Department of Justice has its story all wrong. The Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against Apple and multiple book publishers
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Apple allowed to intervene in Lodsys patent case
Posted On Friday, April 13, 2012 By temp. Under TUAW Tags: app-store, apple, appstore, ios, iphone, lawsuit, legal, lodsys, patent, suit, the-end, tuaw
Last year, patent holder Lodsys filed lawsuits against iOS developers including James Thomson, Patrick McCarron, IconFactory, Combay, Rovio and more.
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