Apple Lawsuits
Apple Agrees to Pay $50 Million USD in Class-Action Lawsuit Over Faulty MacBook Keyboards
Apple has reached a $50 million USD settlement agreement in a class-action lawsuit over defective "butterfly" keyboards in MacBook, MacBook Air, and most MacBook Pro models launched between 2015 and 2019 — reports Reuters. A settlement agreement was filed in the federal court in San Jose, California, on Monday and currently awaits a judge's approval....
Supreme Court Declines Apple’s Request for Hearing Over Two Qualcomm Patents
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Apple’s bid for a hearing to review two Qualcomm patents that were part of the company's 2017 lawsuits against the iPhone maker claiming infringement by its iOS devices, Reuters is reporting. Following Apple and Qualcomm’s 2019 settlement, the Cupertino giant argued the two patents should be invalid in front of...
Judge Denies Apple’s Request to Dismiss Cydia Antitrust Lawsuit
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Thursday rejected Apple's request to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit filed by Cydia, a third-party app store for jailbroken iPhones — reports Reuters. SaurikIT LLC, which developed Cydia, filed a suit earlier this year alleging that Apple maintains an unlawful monopoly over app distribution on iOS. However, Apple argued that...
Texas Couple Sues Apple Over AirPods Allegedly Damaging Son’s Hearing
Texas-based parents of a 14-year-old boy have filed a lawsuit against Apple, alleging that the company’s AirPods emitted an alert so loud that it tore their son's eardrum causing permanent hearing loss, NBC News reports. The lawsuit, which was filed by Carlos Gordoa and Ariani Reyes of San Antonio back in 2020, claims that the boy was...
Apple Sues Startup Rivos, Alleges Chip Secrets Stolen Through Engineers
Apple has filed a lawsuit against technology startup Rivos Inc. for allegedly stealing trade secrets from the iPhone maker by poaching engineers — reports Reuters. According to a lawsuit filed in California federal court, Rivos has managed to get more than 40 of Apple's former employees to jump ship over the past year to work...
Apple Pay is Anticompetitive Says European Union
Apple has been charged with breaking the European Union (EU)'s competition laws for allegedly taking advantage of Apple Pay's dominant position in the mobile payments space to limit competitors' access to contactless payments technology — reports The Financial Times. In a Monday statement, the European Commission raised concerns that Apple may be preventing rivals from...
Dutch Antitrust Regulator Slaps Apple With Another 5 Million Euro Fine
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has issued Apple a fine of 5 million euros ($5.7 million) for the sixth time for not complying with an order to allow alternative forms of payment for dating apps in the App Store, Reuters is reporting. Meanwhile, Apple has sent a letter to the Dutch antitrust regulator...
Apple, Broadcom Win Damages Trial in $1.1 Billion CalTech Patent Case
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has vacated $1.1 billion in damages against Apple and Broadcom in the California Institute of Technology patent case, saying the damages were not justified, via CNET). Back in 2016, CalTech sued Apple and Broadcom alleging the companies infringed on the university's patents related to wireless data transmissions. Apple...
Indie Film ‘Apple-Man’ Faces Lawsuit from Apple [Update]
Apple is reportedly taking a break from fending off government regulators and fighting court-mandated changes to its App Store policies to file a lawsuit of its own against Ukrainian film director Vasyl Moskalenko, who wrote and directed the Kickstarter-backed action-comedy movie Apple-Man. Here's the basic premise of the short film, Apple-Man, which is downright creative in...
New Lawsuit Alleges Google is Paying Apple Not to Develop its Own Search Engine
A new class action filed last week in a California court against Apple and Google is alleging that the latter is paying the iPhone maker to stay out of the search engine business and keep Google as the default option in Safari (via MacRumors). The lawsuit alleges that the two companies are violating US antitrust laws...
U.S. DOJ Reportedly Delays Suing Apple, Google Due to Insufficient Budget
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly delayed potential lawsuits against Apple and Google over antitrust concerns due to financial complications following the collapse of President Joe Biden's social spending bill, Politico reports. Citing two people familiar with the matter, the report notes that DOJ's decision on going to court is likely to come in March or...
Apple Hit With Lawsuit Over Apple Watch Injuries from Broken Displays
A lawsuit brought against Apple by four Apple Watch customers claims that an oversight made by the company in the making of the device can result in its screen detaching, cracking, or shattering, and ultimately causing bodily harm to the wearer — reports Bloomberg. The plaintiffs allege that the Apple Watch's design does not allow enough...