A New Yorker named Avi Koschitzki has filed a lawsuit against Apple regarding a series of hairline cracks in their third gen iPhone. Mr. Koschitzki claims a series of cracks have presented themselves on the casing of the phone. This holds true with a series of other complaints by other consumers, however Avi is the only one filing a lawsuit. The suit claims that Apple knowingly and willingly sold the phones knowing that the cracks were not only possible, but inevitable. More on this as it develops.

An Ohio man bought a battery from Shentech for his ThinkPad and ended up with a fire and damaged laptop. After reporting this to Lenovo, IBM discovered that the battery was not the genuine IBM article it was made out to be. It then purchased 12 batteries from Shentech only to discover that all were fakes.

Enter the lawyers – IBM has filed suit against said company and has asked the court to force Shentech to hand over all of its batteries for destruction, profits it made from selling the fakes and US$1 million per counterfeit mark per type of item sold.

It’s about time someone took these profiteers of fake merchandise to task.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the Australian Government’s consumer watchdog, is suing Google Inc, Google Australia and Google Ireland for misleading and deceptive conduct because of deceptive Adwords ads presented next to Google search results.

The ACCC says that car ads on Google took users to the website of The Trading Post, a weekly classifieds newspaper owned by Australia’s largest telecommunications company Telstra.

This isn’t the first case worldwide where Google has had to defend itself against allegations such as these. So far Google has been successful in its defense against individual actions in the United States, however, this would likely be the first case where Google has been challenged at this level by a Government body. Trade practices laws in Australia are stronger than similar laws in the United States, so this isn’t a case in which Google will be assured a win.

Colorado photographer Louis Psihoyos claims that Apple stole his image of a wall of videos (seen above) for its own use in promoting Apple TV. According to Psihoyos’ attorney, Apple had actually been negotiating with the photographer for the rights to use the image but backed out of the deal and went ahead and used the imagery without permission.

The second lawsuit is from songwriters James Gangwer and Tommy Dunbar, who claim that Avril Lavigne’s song "Girlfriend" is a bit too similar to their song, "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend." Apple is being sued because it is selling the song on iTunes, which the duo says makes them "guilty of allowing the infringement to continue."

Apple is heading to court.