The iPhone 5 is the apple of discord (pun intended) between several retailers, including Best Buy, Toys "R" Us, and Walmart. The retailers have addressed their dissatisfaction to attorneys general in several states across the US; they complained about Walmart's comparison ads which, according to the companies, contain inaccurate pricing, and, are misleading by claiming the lowest prices. According to Best Buy, the company has lost roughly $65,000 in one day, when said Walmart promotion ran for the first time. According to the report, Walmart has allegedly sold the iPhone 5 for $150 on ...

The Samsung Galaxy S III mini, announced mid-October, was added last month by Apple to the list of devices for which the Cupertino-based company is seeking justice in the courtrooms for alleged patent infringements. Samsung defended itself saying that the S III mini is not available in the US and thus it shouldn't be included in the lawsuit. Samsung confirmed that the phone in case will not be offered on the American market; as a response, Apple has withdrawn the Galaxy S III mini from the list together with patent infringement claims agains the device. Despite Apple's lawyers being able ...

After Apple and HTC have signed a ten-year licensing agreement we have recently found out that Samsung wanted to know all the details of the settlement. The South Korean company wants to see whether Apple is fine with licensing its user experience patents and in case it was, a Samsung ban wouldn't be justified. Apple and HTC both agreed to show a version of the document with financials redacted but Judge Paul S. Grewal, despite being "more than a little skeptical" about Samsung's argument, has granted the request. Apple and HTC are now being forced to show the unredacted version, however, ...

There was quite a lot of buzz surrounding the storage space (and the available space) on the 32GB Surface tablet. The specifications include 32GB of storage but, as Microsoft itself has pointed out, File Explorer is only reporting 16GB free and accessible to the user, the rest being taken up be pre-installed applications, OS itself as well as a recovery partition. Because of that Microsoft has been hit with a lawsuit for allegedly misleading customers. Los Angeles lawyer Andrew Sokolowski is taking Microsoft to court because he purchased a 32GB Surface tablet and he quickly ran out of the ...

HTC and Apple had their fair share of legal battles and you'll probably remember the HTC One X ban saga (where the U.S. International Trade Commission sided with Apple on December 19, 2011, when it imposed a formal import ban for HTC devices starting April 19, 2012). According to a joint press release the two companies have reached a global settlement alongside a ten-year long licensing agreement. While the exact terms of the agreement haven't been made public they guarantee that the two companies will no longer fight each other in the courtrooms for the matters settled (aside from ...

Following a ruling in the Apple versus Samsung case the UK court has found that Samsung products did not infringe on Apple's patents, as claimed by the Cupertino company, because, as the judge noted humorously, "they do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design. They are not as cool." As an effect, Apple has to post, in its website and printed media, an acknowledgement that Samsung did not copy its products' design -- still subject to a possible Supreme Court appeal. The bottom part of Apple UK's website hosts a small link that ...

While the jury was off yesterday the CEOs of Apple and Samsung had a planned settlement discussion. As with previous similar talks, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung Chief Executive Kwon Oh Hyun, this one, too, has failed and the company leaders have not managed to reach a common ground. On another front of the legal battle Apple is being accused by Motorola in front of the US International Trade Commission of infringing seven of its now Google-owned patents. Motorola is willing to settle "these patent matters, but Apple’s unwillingness to work out a license leaves us little choice but ...

After ruling that Samsung's tablet was not as cool as the iPad, the U.K. court considered that a proper way to compensate the South Korean manufacturer was, among others things, for Apple to post a message which publicly clears Samsung of any accusations that it copied the iPad’s design. The fruit-company has managed to score a stay in the case, at least until October, when Apple can be heard in front of the court. Those of you who hoped to see a huge "Samsung did not copy us" message while going to Apple's website will have to wait a little bit more, at least until the beginning of Q4. ...