When I was an Assistant District Attorney at the Bronx District Attorney's Office I was assigned to the Citizen Complaint Unit.  While occasionally someone with a real complaint would walk through the door, the CCU was essentially a clearing house for all the wackos of the Bronx. 

CNet reports that Apple has begun refusing to give developers promo codes for iPhone applications rated 17+. Apple allows its iPhone developers to request up to 50 promotional codes for their apps when they are uploaded to the App Store.

A change in terms to the Amazon.com Product Advertising API License Agreement is forcing mobile applications developers to discontinue offering iPhone apps that use Amazon's data.

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has advocated that "social networking on the iPhone is a huge opportunity, and the fact that the big guys are ignoring it for now leaves the door open for a newcomer to get long term market share."

Video game maker EDGE GAMES has convinced Apple to remove iPhone puzzle game Edge from the App Store based upon claims of trademark infringement.  To read the article, click here.

According to Fierce Mobile Content, a recent trademark filing suggests Microsoft may be planning to launch a second application storefront in addition to its forthcoming Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

Attention copywriters. The FDA has taken out a bright red pen and is poised to mark up your product statements. The green shades (an antiquated description of newspaper copyeditors)  signaled much closer review of health claims with a warning to General Mills about oat cereal.

GetJar, an independent app store, yesterday announced 1.5 billion app downloads in its first year of operation. GetJar has been around since 2004. It features close to 50,000 applications — such as Google Maps and the Opera browser — and works on all major platforms.

Some smart tips from BlackberryCool to help sell your app: Constantly experiment with price points Getting featured is your top priority Choose the right time to launch your product Choosing the right category Searching optimization through branding To read the article, click here.

Apple announced Tuesday that after a year in existence, its App Store has counted 1.5 billion downloaded applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Some stats:  In April, Apple announced 1 billion apps had been downloaded from its store, after just 9 months of being open.

Three New Jersey companies that manufacture and sell nutritional supplements and protein powders have just learned what happens when you do not follow health directives from the Food and Drug Administration.

Interesting piece in today's WSJ entitled "Seeking Fame in Apple's Sea of Apps." The article notes that Apple gets 30% of any third-party app sales, and that as of today customers had downloaded more than 1.5 billion free and paid apps.

Legal filings aggregator Justia tags cases filed in federal court with relevant keywords including "iTunes."  This makes finding new filings related to whatever keyword interests you quite simple.

Welcome to our new blog, published by lawyers Kevin Houchin and Joel Rothman.  Houchin and Rothman are better known as the attorneys who filed the now infamous iFart v.

GUEST BLOG by David A. Mark The Institute of Medicine is currently reviewing the Dietary Reference Intake value for vitamin D that last changed in 1997.

A recent study by LegalMetrics, a litigation analysis firm, named the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida among the top five districts for speed to resolution in patent infringement cases.  

Calvin Pace of the New York Jets will be sitting out the first four games of the 2009 season because he violated the National Football League's policy on doping.

Following up on a post from June 30, the question of consumer confidence in nutritional supplements arises again. The Times-Herald reports that many supplements have quality problems. 

Anne Hart has lots of questions about the quality and safety of nutritional supplements, 19 questions to be exact. They revolve around product integrity, contamination, mislabeling (think sibutramine), FDA oversight and so on. 

Manufacturers beware. Your regulatory problems may not be over when you pull a product from the store shelves. Matrixx Initiatives Inc. recalled its Zicam products on June 16 and three days later the Securities & Exchange Commission sent a letter of inquiry.