On this wonderful, warm day in the Northern Hemisphere, there’s a bit of news about our favorite fruit company — Apple:
- Apple Music has 11 million trial customers after five weeks
- An opera about the life of Steve Jobs is scheduled to debut in 2017
- iPhone market share is growing just about everywhere, except for the USA
- Microsoft Translator is available for iPhone and Apple Watch
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According to Unified Patents, there were 3,499 patent litigation cases in 2011 and this is projected to hit 6,100 in 2015. Legal action over intellectual property infringements often involve tech companies. Apple has found itself in the crosshairs 35 times so far this year, while Samsung has endured 33 litigation cases in the first half of 2015.
In 2014, Apple was sued 59 times. Amazon was the runner-up last year with 50 lawsuits filed against it. (The accompanying chart is courtesy of Statistica.)
So who’s suing Apple this year? Probendi, an Irish software development studio, has filed an urgent procedure with a court in Milan protesting Apple’s use of the term “iWatch” in its ads.
Apple was sued by Shanghai Shulong Computer Technology (the parent company of Shanda Games) for alleged copyright infringement of The King Of Adventure, a mobile game sold in the Apple App Store. In June Shanda Games sued Apple, Huawei, C1wan.com and Beijing Zhuoyi Xunchuang Technology for unfair competition.
Comarco Wireless Technologies is suing Apple for patent infringement, claiming that the Cupertino, California-based company’s iPhone/iPad chargers infringe on its own patents. And battery manufacturerA123 Systems is suing the Cupertino, California-based company for “poaching employees.”
