Court Documents

Apple Legal Argument: It’s Not Reasonable To Believe Our Ads as Fact — In court documents responding to a lawsuit, Apple has made the seemingly unusual claim that no reasonable person cold construe Apple’s own claims in its own advertising as “claims of fact.“ In other words, the company’s legal department is arguing that the company’s marketing department can’t be relied on to tell the truth.... [Tags: apple, court documents, legal argument, marketing department, reasonable person]

Apple's new VP could cause 'irreparable harm' to IBM, says judge — U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Karas ordered Apple's newest VP to leave the company just five days after starting work because he might cause 'irreparable harm' to his former employer, IBM, unsealed court documents show.... [Tags: apple, court documents, district court judge, irreparable harm, karas]

Ballmer Ordered To Testify In 'Vista Capable' Case — alphadogg writes "A federal judge in Seattle has ordered Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to testify in a class action lawsuit against Microsoft that alleges the company misled consumers in a marketing campaign for its Windows Vista operating system in which computers sold with an older Microsoft OS were labeled 'Vista Capable' when in fact they could only run a basic version of Vista. Ballmer has unique personal knowledge of facts surrounding the case, therefore he must face questioning, Judge Marsha Pechman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle ruled, according to court documents released... [Tags: class action lawsuit, consumers, court documents, federal judge, judge marsha pechman]

Why iiNet will probably lose the piracy lawsuit — A look at the Copyright Act suggests the movie and TV industry have an unfortunately strong case against iiNet. PLUS: Read the court documents yourself.... [Tags: copyright act, court documents, iinet, piracy, tv industry]

Psystar Lawsuit Filings Reveal Potential Document Policy Problems at Apple — In court documents filed in the lawsuit battle between would-be Mac clone maker Psystar and Apple Inc., statements by Apple reveal a lack of a company document retention plan or policy that could be a problem for the company. The policy in place at Apple leaves ultimate...... [Tags: apple, clone maker, court documents, document retention, mac clone]

'Nipplegate' could reach high court — The US government has asked the Supreme Court to reimpose a half-million-dollar fine slapped on CBS television for a 2004 broadcast of live images of pop star Janet Jackson's breast, court documents obtained by AFP show...... [Tags: breast, broadcast, cbs, cbs television, court documents]

Microsoft Was Worried About Mac Besting Vista in '05 — According to some newly released court documents in the "Vista Capable" class-action lawsuit, Microsoft was worried about...... [Tags: class action lawsuit, court documents, microsoft]

Microsoft was worried about Mac besting Vista back in ‘05 — According to some newly released court documents in the “Vista Capable” class-action lawsuit, Microsoft was worried about comparisons between its newest OS and the Mac OS before Vista was even out, and before Apple starting joking about it.... [Tags: apple, class action lawsuit, court documents, mac os, microsoft]

Judge delays trial of accused Palin e-mail hacker — David Kernell, the Tennessee college student indicted a month ago for allegedly breaking into the e-mail account of then-Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will face trial in May 2009, according to court documents.... [Tags: court documents, e mail account, judge delays, kernell, mail hacker]

More dirt in Vista Capable case surfaces — Unfortunate business decisions are made every, but rarely do we get insight in the background of those decisions and answers to the when, why and who. New court documents relating the Vista marketing confusion problem that flooded the PC market with “Vista Capable” computer systems that were not really able to run Windows Vista and support vista’s new driver, reveal more about what was discussed between Microsoft, PC vendors and Intel. There seems to be no doubt that Microsoft knew a decision to allow certain Intel...... [Tags: business decisions, capable computer, computer systems, confusion, court documents]

Report: Allchin tried to stop Microsoft Vista-Certifying computers that couldn't run it properly — According to court documents, Microsoft not only knew that it was lying when it issued "Vista Capable" certification to computers with puny Intel 915 chipsets that had no such capability, but was thanked for it directly by Intel CEO Paul Ottelini. Imagine being someone who mattered at Microsoft having to listen to fellow executive Jim Allchin go on and on and on: "We are going to be misleading customers with the Capable program. OEMs (computer makers) will say a machine is Capable and customers will believe that it will run all the core Vista features. The fact that aero won't... [Tags: allchin, capability, capable program, chipsets, computer makers]

Microsoft nobbled ‘Vista-Capable’ for Intel — Unlocked court papers show email trail High-ranking Microsoft and Intel executives were involved in a plan to re-write the Windows Vista Capable program to save both companies - and OEMs - millions of dollars, according to unsealed court documents.…... [Tags: capable program, court documents, intel, intel executives, microsoft]

Apple's Papermaster countersues IBM — According to court documents, lawyers for Papermaster plan to claim that Big Blue's noncompete agreement is too broad and shouldn't apply to a consumer electronics company.... [Tags: apple, consumer electronics company, court documents, lawyers, noncompete agreement]

Apple's Papermaster countersues IBM — Apple's iPhone man-in-waiting, Mark Papermaster, has filed a countersuit against his former employer in a dispute over a noncompete agreement. InformationWeek spotted the court documents filed late Thursday in federal court in New York claiming that IBM's noncompete agreement with Papermaster shouldn't apply to his potential employment ...... [Tags: apple, countersuit, court documents, iphone, noncompete agreement]

IBM must put up $3 million in Papermaster case — IBM only had to pay a $350 filing fee to sue Mark Papermaster, the 25-year IBM (IBM) veteran hired by Steve Jobs last month to run Apple’s (AAPL) iPod and iPhone division. It’s going to cost the company a lot more to pursue the case. Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas granted Big Blue the preliminary injunction it sought — based on a noncompetition clause signed in 2006 — and ordered Papermaster to stop working for Apple immediately. See The Papermaster chronicles. On Tuesday, the judge ordered IBM to put up a bond to cover any costs or damages... [Tags: 17 years, aapl, apple, court documents, court finds that]

Almost iPod chief countersues IBM — Mark Papermaster, the ex-IBM executive recruited by Apple to succeed iPod creator Tony Fadell and lead the company’s devices engineering unit, has filed a countersuit against his former employer yesterday. Court documents reveal that Papermaster is challenging his non-compete agreement as being unjust since it blocks him from working for any tech company in the world for one year. The surprising move comes on the heels of a bond set earlier this week, which would allow the executive to...... [Tags: apple, countersuit, court documents, non compete agreement, papermaster]

Attorneys for Palin email hacker: 'Don't call him hacker' — The semantics of electronic intrusion Attorneys for the University of Tennessee student accused of breaking into Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's email account have filed a small forest's worth of court documents in defense of the high-profile suspect. Among them is a motion to prohibit prosecutors from referring to their client as a hacker.…... [Tags: alaska governor sarah palin, attorneys, court documents, electronic intrusion, email account]

The Papermaster Chase: IBM exec was not Apple's first pick — Court documents reveal that Mark Papermaster was not Apple's first pick to replace iPod VP Tony Fadell, and that his experience with POWER was not critical to Apple's decision to offer him a job.Read More...... [Tags: apple, chase, court documents, exec, job]

Circuit City Owes HP, Samsung, Sony $294 Million — Circuit City (CC) is filing for bankruptcy, so who's owed money? WSJ: Circuit City Stores Inc., which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, owes Hewlett-Packard Co. more than $118 million, according to court documents filed Monday by the retail chain. H-P, which sells personal computers and printers at Circuit City, is the store's largest unsecured creditor. H-P ranks ahead of Samsung Electronics Co.--to which Circuit City owes nearly $116 million--and Sony Corp., which is owed $60 million. HP people had no immediate comment on whether they were still shipping goods to the troubled franchise. See Also: Circuit City Files... [Tags: 60 million, chapter 11 bankruptcy, chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, circuit city, circuit city stores]

Judge orders newly hired Apple VP to stop work — A federal judge has ordered a one-time IBM executive who was recently hired by Apple Inc. to stop working for the Cupertino, Calif. company, according to court documents.... [Tags: apple vp, court documents, cupertino calif, federal judge, judge orders]