Apple won a tidy victory in a California court last week when a judge approved an injunction to ban the sale of Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets in the U.S. Samsung filed an appeal of the ban within hours, but the same judge has now rejected Samsung's request to reconsider her decision on the tablet case, Reuters reports, and the ban stays. Later in the week, the judge also approved a ban on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus phone.
Though it is presently winning points against Samsung, Apple continues to face challenges in its broader patent fights. In another case, this time against Taiwan phone maker HTC, another judge has shot down Apple's request for an emergency ban on the import of HTC smartphones including the premium One X and EVO 4G LTE. Apple claimed HTC continues to violate a patent, but the court thought otherwise, Bloomberg reports.
Chinese Chemical Manufacturer Sues Apple Over "Snow Leopard" Trademark
After fending off a trademark suit from Chinese company Proview over the name of the iPad (and parting with $60 million), Apple is being plied with yet another trademark suit over the Chinese translation of the name of its Snow Leopard OS, formally labelled OS X 10.6. MICgadget reports that a Shanghai court has accepted a claim from a chemicals manufacturer in China called Jiangsu Xuebao, whose name translates to "Snow Leopard," and has scheduled a hearing for July 10.
Facebook, GM Back In Talks About Ads
Days before Facebook's IPO in May, GM said it would remove its ads from the social network with executives complaining that the placements were ineffective in driving sales. Recently, however, the two companies seem to be mending their relationship the Wall Street Journal reports. High ups at both companies are sitting down to hash things out. According to theJournal, Facebook execs have proposed giving GM better data on how ads are faring, and how they could translate into product purchases--a service Facebook is offering other companies that pay to post ads on the social network. GM has yet to officially return as a paid advertiser.
Microsoft Facing Quarterly Loss On Failed Ad Business
Microsoft is writing down $6.2 billion on its 2007 purchase of aQuantive, an online ad serving system. According to the Guardian this places the software giant at risk of an accounting-based quarterly loss (when its sales and profitability had aimed it at a profit of around $5 billion), and demonstrates the catastrophic fail of one of Microsoft's biggest ever purchases, and came a the same time as Google spent $3.1 billion to buy DoubleClick. The online advertising game is notoriously tricky to get right, and has recently resulted in technical difficulties even for Facebook--which is used regularly by nearly one in seven people on the planet.
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