United States v. Apple Inc. Apple must pay $450 million. In this case, the court applied the per se doctrine to vertical pricing conduct which had not been the doctrine since Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc.. Leegin suggested that vertical conduct be judged independently under the rule of reason even in the presence of both vertical and horizontal parties. This may lead to more stringent antitrust treatment to actors in vertical relationships. United States v. Apple Inc. United States of America v. Apple Inc., et al., 12 Civ. 2862 (DLC), was a US antitrust case in which the Court held that Apple
Apple Inc. litigation Apple Computer Inc." (1986, Australia) (""Computer Edge""), "Apple Computer Inc. v Mackintosh Computers Ltd.", (Canada, 1987) (""Apple v. Mackintosh""), and "IBM v. Computer Imports Ltd." (""IBM v. Computer Imports""), (New Zealand, 1989). In the "Computer Edge" case, the Australian court decided against the then-prevailing opinions in other courts (the U.K., Canada, South Africa, and the U.S.) and ruled object code was not copyrightable, while the Supreme Court of Canada in "Apple v. Mackintosh" reversed its earlier decisions and ruled that because object code was a translation of source code and embodied in a silicon chip, it was therefore a translation