Apple angry with a company called Psystar is accused of violating copyright. Apple asks judge in California court to stop completely the sale of Psystar products.
“If not so, Psystar is not going to stop doing illegal deeds, which hurt Apple’s business and brand,” said the Apple.
Apple and Psystar have been fighting in court since July 2008. Apple accused Psystar violated its patent rights 8. Indeed, Psystar sells similar software that Apple’s operating system, OS X.
Earlier this month, Apple has won in one case. Judge William Alsup decided Psystar violating Apple’s rights to reproduce the operating system OS X.
In his complaint, Apple also asked a number of fines. But the company Steve Jobs founded this state though akhinya given fines, stay will not equal the damages suffered by Apple’s Psystar action.
Therefore, the court forbade Apple Psystar hopes to sell products similar to Apple products. This is to prevent other vendors are inspired to do the same thing.
China Court decides Microsoft guilty in a lawsuit. The world’s largest software company, the stated violation of intellectual property related to the use of certain fonts in the operating system.
The court in Beijing said Microsoft had violated the law by using and selling of company-owned fonts China named Zhongyi Electronic Ltd..
China responded to this court’s decision, Microsoft sure is innocent, so to express disapproval.
“We plan to appeal. Microsoft respects intellectual property rights. We believe our license agreement with the plaintiff has included the use of fonts intended,” said Microsoft.
As a result of the court’s decision, Microsoft is prohibited from selling operating systems are known to use the fonts that were in dispute, including Windows XP that is still in there. But lucky, the latest operating system Windows 7 is not affected by the effects of the decision.
Zhongyi company spokesman said it planned to ask for compensation to Microsoft. They are studying how much the expected amount of compensation.
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The problems between the two microprocessor companies, Intel and AMD in the courts finally ended. Both agreed to resolve disputes, and Intel will pay AMD U.S. $ 1.25 billion.
Both peace agreement stipulated in a treaty. “If a harmonious relationship between the two companies is unlikely in the past, this agreement will end the legal dispute and allow both companies to concentrate on innovation efforts and product development,” the essence of the agreement between Intel and AMD are.
As part of the agreement, Intel will pay U.S. $ 1.25 billion for AMD. In the meantime, AMD will stop the lawsuit on Intel. In addition, Intel is also required to comply with a set of rules in business practices.
AMD CEO Dirk Meyer considered that this agreement will provide an opportunity for companies to compete fairly.
Previously, AMD accused Intel had committed fraud in business, by offering discounts to computer makers who agreed not to buy chips from AMD. The case was eventually rolled into the court.
Problems in the court’s not unusual for Apple, either as a defendant or plaintiff. But the demands of this time may be very rare that they find.
Not only involve the plaintiff and Apple, strange lawsuits also brought a Hollywood actress. He was the star of the movie ‘Sex and the City’, Sarah Jessica Parker.
What’s in the lawsuit? Plaintiff, with the name of Franz A. Wakefield, claiming to be the inventor of the iPod since 1983. However, he said, the design of the iPod was stolen by Sarah Jessica Parker for later sold to the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs.
According to Wakefield, he was friendly with Parker and agreed to establish consent to mengkomersialisasi iPod Classic, iPod Nano, iPod Mini, iPod Shuffle, iPod Touch and iPhone. However, Parker betray the agreement and sell the technology to Steve Jobs.
Wakefield register his complaint in the U.S. District Court Central District area of California. He also peecayadiri sent a letter to Steve Jobs complaint contains a number of requests, among other compensation.
The lawsuit does not seem to mind it very seriously and intended to simply find the sensation of it, because there was no supporting evidence that makes sense.
London – The people behind the illegal downloading of action, not solely to be blamed and punished. Because, they were instead pushed sales in the music industry.
Thus the results of opinion polls conducted by independent institutions, The Demos, in the UK. They surveyed some 1,000 people with age range 16-50 years.
The results of this poll show, the pirated music lovers on average spend 77 pounds a year for the music they love. While those who ‘clean-handed’ just poured money just 44 pounds.
This means that, just because someone had to download illegally, does not mean he never spent money to music.
An analyst from Forrester Research, Mark Mulligan chance to uncover the facts behind this poll results. “The people who share files, usually are those who are interested in music. They use file-sharing as a way to find music they like”.
