I always thought Palm would have a lawsuit or two to deal with when it launched the Palm Pre, I also always thought that Apple would be the other party and multi-touch on webOS the case being brought to court. However it doesn’t really matter what I think as Palm has indeed has two lawsuits filed against it but not from Apple. The two companies in question are Artifex Software Inc and Jason Standiford who isn’t a company but a user of the Palm Pre.
The two lawsuits are for entirely different reasons the first filed by Artifex Software Inc is in reference to the PDF software called muPDF which webOS uses to render PDF documents , there is some confusion as to the type of licence Palm needed to use this software, without going into too much more detail you can read a better explanation here.
The second lawsuit is filed by Jason Standiford et al. all of whom have suffered at the hands of Palm’s disappearing Palm Profile trick. Jason Standiford is not the only Palm user to have lost data as we reported on this site a lot of people have suffered some kind of loss, this can be put down to older versions of webOS or just problems with the Palm cloud. However we don’t all go around suing Palm , although it is interesting to see if Jason was to win compensation how many other people would see fit to follow suit and file their own lawsuits.
For further information on the Jason Standiford read it here.
The lawyers at Palm will be working long hours to resolve these two issues.
