SOPA and Its Effects

From Prohibition to “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” regulation of any kind in our country has typically led to long term legal battles.  What’s on the government regulation agenda for this year?  Pirated online materials — and they’re quickly turning into the subject of one of the most heated regulatory arguments of our time.

The debate at [...]

Need for Speed: ITC Wastes No Time During Discovery

Executive Corporate Magazine published an op-ed piece in this month’s edition which features attorneys Rodney R. Sweetland and Michael McManus of firm McKool Smith.  The two principals speak on the subject of the International Trade Commission (ITC)’s considerably faster discovery proceedings in comparison to timelines set by district courts.

According to Sweetland and McManus, litigation in [...]

HTC Gets Booted

HTC lost its most recent legal battle against Apple this week when the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that the Google Android operating system violates a patent related to the linking of data in apps. The verdict on the patent will also result in a ban of the import of all HTC devices into the [...]

Talk To Me! Android’s Response to Siri

After a first attempt to create its own version of Apple’s trending voice assistant, “Siri,” Google is reportedly working on a new, more sophisticated model to release in early 2012.  The new voice assistant, dubbed “Majel,” will replace Android’s first attempt at a voice assistant app called “Iris” (or Siri in reverse).

Reportedly developed in under [...]

Apple Blocks Samsung from Oz this Christmas

After 30 filed suits between them over the past eight months, Apple lost its appeal to extend a ban on the sale of Samsung Galaxy tablets in Australia.  Samsung has made sales of more than 300 million units this year for mobile handsets, surprising not only competitors such as Apple but also Samsung, itself.  Apple’s [...]

Negative Space?: Homage to Jobs Stems Dispute

The Disputed Logo

Copyright claims to the Steve Job’s tribute image released soon after his death last week have gone almost as viral as the image itself.  The tribute image, a silhouette of Steve Jobs in place of the bite mark on Apple’s logo, has caused a bit of an uproar amongst independent designers and [...]

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