Bruce Sewell is retiring at the end of the year after eight years in the role of Apple's chief attorney, the company announced Friday.
Apple’s chief attorney Bruce Sewell retiring, to be replaced with Honeywell’s Katherine Adams
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Chinese regulators reviewing a possible antitrust complaint against Apple
China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce is currently reviewing a complaint from 28 local developers who allege that the iPhone maker has abused its market position in the mainland to charge excessive fees and remove apps from App Store without fair reasoning.
Cook explains why Apple’s VPN actions in China are not inconsistent with its values in the US
Apple's actions in China regarding the removal of unlicensed VPN apps are not at odds with its refusal in the US to unlock an iPhone that belonged to a San Bernardino shooter, Apple's chief executive said during Tuesday's post-earnings conference call with investors and analysts.
Why finding future Apple product names in trademark filings has become next to impossible
Three weeks after an Irish lawyer uncovered the official names for iPhone 7, AirPods and other then-unreleased gadgets from trademark filings last year, Apple's favorite trademark office in Jamaica made it a lot harder to conduct those kinds of searches.
Nokia discloses Apple paid it $2 billion cash to settle patent dispute
Apple during last quarter made a one-time upfront payment of €1.7 billion to Nokia, or approximately $2 billion, to settle all litigation regarding patent disputes between the two companies, the Finnish firm has disclosed in today’s financial results.
Apple sued over ‘What Did He/She Say?’ feature in tvOS
A Florida company named CustomPlay yesterday filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida over the Siri-powered 'What Did He/She Say?' feature used in tvOS on the fourth-generation Apple TV.
Apple ordered to pay $506 million for violating University of Wisconsin’s chip efficiency patent
A U.S. judge on Monday ordered Apple to pay $506 million in damages to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the University of Wisconsin-Madison's patent-licensing arm, for violating its chip efficiency patent.
Samsung, Google, Amazon, Intel, Facebook and others side with Apple in Qualcomm fight
The Computer & Communications Industry Association, an industry lobbying group which counts technology giants Google, Intel, Amazon, Facebook and Apple rival Samsung as its members, among others, has sided with the Cupertino giant in its escalating legal dispute with Qualcomm over smartphone royalties related to cellular technology.
Major suppliers join Apple in its legal battle against Qualcomm
Apple's legal battle with Qualcomm over excessive smartphone royalties has taken a turn for the worse as several Apple suppliers have officially sided with their key client to allege that Qualcomm has violated two sections of the U.S. antitrust law.
Nokia health accessories have returned to Apple Online Store
Apple's online store is again selling Nokia's iPhone-connected health devices almost two months after the two companies reached an agreement in their patent infringement battle.
Qualcomm CEO would like to settle with Apple out of court
Qualcomm's legal spat with Apple and toxic rhetoric regarding cellular technology licensing agreements has been raging on for six months, and it would seem that the war is now starting to hurt Qualcomm's business.
In an interview with Fortune, Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf suggested in a more conciliatory tone that his firm's dispute with Apple over potentially billions of dollars in royalties on mobile chipsets should be resolved via an out of court settlement.
“There's not really anything new going on,” he said of the Apple dispute speaking at the Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, adding that “those things tend to get to resolved out of court and there's no reason why I wouldn't expect that to be the case here.”
“I don't have an announcement or anything so please don't ask,” the CEO added.
Apple dual-sourced cellular modem chips from both Qualcomm and Intel in about half of new iPhones last year, instead of buying all its chips from Qualcomm.
The Cupertino company also stopped paying its iPhone manufacturers for royalties owed to Qualcomm in April 2017, arguing Qualcomm abused its dominant position for mobile communications chips to charge excessive royalties.
The companies sued each other and Qualcomm a few weeks ago filed a patent infringement lawsuit seeking to have imports of some iPhones and iPads that contain competing mobile communications chips banned from the US.
As that filing will take 18 months to work through the system, iPhones and iPads released this and next year shouldn't be affected.
Apple’s iCloud trademark now covers smart glasses and headset accessory
Apple has updated its figurative trademark for “iCloud”, filed with the Hong Kong Trademark Office, to include smart glasses and even a headset peripheral device. As you know, the Cupertino company is rumored to be working on a dedicated augmented reality headset or a smart glasses product with Carl Zeiss optics.
As first noted by PatentlyApple, since April of this year Apple has begun to include specific types of products to its trademarks covering the Mac Pro/iMac Pro computers and the ARKit framework for building augmented reality apps, including devices like smart glasses, head mounted displays, virtual and augmented reality displays and the like.
The iCloud trademark's international class 09 verbiage defines the headsets as falling under the context of “wearable digital electronic devices capable of providing access to the Internet” or “computer software for setting up, configuring, operating and controlling” these systems.
Likewise, the trademark meticulously lists the real-world applications for “smart glasses,” also covering things like “virtual and augmented reality displays, goggles, controllers, and headsets, 3D spectacles, eyeglasses, sunglasses, spectacle lenses, optical glass and optical goods”.