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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Will Supreme Court Consider Whether to Allow an Alternative to In-App Purchasing on the App Store?

App developers who pay 30% commission fee to Apple via In-App Purchasing should take note of an important legal decision recently presented to the Supreme Court for possible review. The Supreme Court’s decision whether to...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

Second Bite at the Apple: Apple’s Account Deletion Requirement Finally Goes into Effect. Is Your Mobile App Compliant?

On June 30, after a 5-month delay from the originally-scheduled effective date (to give app developers more time to comply), Apple’s new account deletion requirement went into effect. As a result, companies with mobile apps...more

Locke Lord LLP

Market Definition Is Front and Center in Recent Decision ‎‎Dismissing App Developers’ Antitrust ‎Claims Against Apple

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A recent decision from Judge Edward M. Chen in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California focuses on the sufficiency of allegations of market definition to state a claim for federal antitrust...more

Alston & Bird

Antitrust Spotlight: Epic v. Apple #3

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In this third installment of the Antitrust Spotlight on the Epic v. Apple trial, we cover key issues identified by the court during closing arguments and post-trial briefing, as well as the arguments highlighted by the...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Summary of the United States Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights Hearing

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On April 21, 2021, the United States Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights held a hearing to discuss Google and Apple’s role in the mobile app ecosystem and their effect on third-party app...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Apple’s App Tracking Transparency Now In Effect

As of this week, Apple’s requirements for apps to follow its AppTrackingTransparency are now in effect. These requirements went hand-in-hand with the iOS 14.5 launch, and impacts how an app can track users and access their...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Apple’s iOS 14 Privacy Changes: Five Practical Tips for App Developers

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When Apple announced that one of the major focuses of iOS 14 would be enhancing user privacy, many in the tech community had questions. How would these changes be rolled out? How would they affect not only the mobile...more

Kidon IP

The ACT | APPLE Association Charade

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Apple and the Fearsome five are doing it again.   The same people who pushed the fallacious “troll bogeyman”; engaged in PTAB proxy warfare, seemingly immunized by the “real party in interest doctrine”;  invented  the...more

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Epic Battles Apple: I Missed a Spot

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On Tuesday I wrote about how Epic Games’ CEO Tim Sweeney was engaging Apple on at least three battlefronts. I missed a battlefront and I’m here today to rectify that mistake. I mentioned Epic’s groundbreaking and lucrative...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Tech Anti-Trust Fight is More Than a Game

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Tim Sweeney, the Colossus of Cary, is fighting even bigger foes – Apple and Google. The multibillionaire chief executive of Epic Games has opened a multi-front war on the tribute that app developers are forced to pay to reach...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Apple Announces Enhanced Privacy Features for All iOS Apps

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New tracking and privacy-related features will apply to all iOS apps when iOS 14 is released in September 2020. Key Points: ..During Apple’s WWDC 2020 keynote address on June 22, 2020, Apple announced two key privacy...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Gambling, Tracking Restricted in New App Store Rules

Changes to Apple’s App Store Review Guidelines are facing backlash from developers across a variety of industries. In changes to Guidelines 1.3 and 5.1.4, Apple placed limits on third-party tracking in child-centric apps....more

Burns & Levinson LLP

The Continuing Challenge of Cybersecurity Hygiene in Digital Health and Life Sciences

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A recent issue of MIT’s Technology Review magazine is titled, “Look how far precision medicine has come.“ At least part of the premise is that personalized medicine or precision medicine is not perceived as having made the...more

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Apple Removes VPN Apps from China App Store

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Apple’s removal of VPN apps from its app store in China could signal a difficult road ahead for companies doing business there. In March 2017, we posted a summary of China’s new cyber security law (Law) that went into effect...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Court Finds Apple is a Distributor of iPhone Apps, Allows Antitrust Suit

In a significant Illinois Brick decision, the Ninth Circuit recently issued an opinion concluding that consumers who purchase apps from Apple’s “app store” directly purchase those apps from Apple, which acts as a distributor....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Mobile App Legal Terms & Conditions: Six Key Considerations

For corporations, the mobile app is today’s website. Back in the late 1990s, no self-respecting company, no matter how stodgy and old-fashioned, wanted to be without a website....more

Holland & Knight LLP

Lab Tuesday - How Not to Use Apple’s Identifier for Advertising (IDFA/IFA)

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Recently, the mobile platforms have played an important role in improving end-user privacy. Along these lines, Apple, in or around iOS version 6.0, created a new, unique identifier that could be used in place of the UDID and...more

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