As we at CFIF often highlight, strong intellectual property (IP) rights - including patent rights -…
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Senate Must Support Strong Patent Rights, Not Erode Them

As we at CFIF often highlight, strong intellectual property (IP) rights - including patent rights - constitute a core element of "American Exceptionalism" and explain how we became the most inventive, prosperous, technologically advanced nation in human history.  Our Founding Fathers considered IP so important that they explicitly protected it in the text of Article I of the United States Constitution.

Strong patent rights also explain how the U.S. accounts for an incredible two-thirds of all new lifesaving drugs introduced worldwide.

Elected officials must therefore work to protect strong IP and patent rights, not undermine them.   Unfortunately, several anti-patent bills currently before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee this week threaten to do exactly…[more]

April 02, 2025 • 08:29 PM

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Thursday, February 02 2012

As part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit against Apple, some iTunes customers are eligible to receive $3.25 in iTunes Store credit.  Also as part of the settlement, Apple has agreed not to oppose the Class Counsel's request of attorneys’ fees and expenses of up to $2,117,500. 

According to news reports, plaintiff Gabriel Johnson filed a class action lawsuit alleging that Apple overcharged customers by advertising and distributing $0.99 gift cards before subsequently raising prices for certain songs to $1.29. Johnson’s suit claimed Apple moved from the $0.99 model to a higher-quality track for $1.29 but during the transition continued to promote $0.99 songs.

Although Apple denied the allegations, in order to avoid the cost of litigation, both parties agreed to a settlement in which some customers will get a $3.25 credit -- and the lawyers will get millions.

—Source: forums.appleinsider.com

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