(Bloomberg)

No less than former Apple CEO Steve Jobs tried to get Samsung to check itself before it wrecked itself. As the two companies engage in their legal patent wrangling in Australia, it has come to light that Jobs had initiated contact with Samsung before Apple launched legal proceedings, apparently in an effort to give the Apple rival and supplier "a chance to do the right thing." This was a step up from Apple's previous effort, which consisted of FedEx-ing Samsung's entire executive team and board of directors DVDs of .

(CNet)

To continue on a legal bent, Apple this week won a decision in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals over Psystar (?). In an initial district court case, the Mac clone-maker was ruled to have infringed upon Apple's trademarks, and this week's judgment upholds that earlier decision. Allow me to be the first to say: onara, suckers.

(Pigs, Gourds, And Wikis)