| 101 Business News - Legal Resources |
| Adobe sued by RPost over EchoSign technology |
| The day after acquiring EchoSign for its electronic signature technology, Adobe Systems and EchoSign are being sued by a company that claims EchoSign's technology infringes on five of its patents. |
| July 19, 2011 |
| Amazon: Actress lawsuit over age revelation bogus |
| Frivolous and selfish is how lawyers for Amazon.com Inc. describe a lawsuit brought by an actress upset that her advanced age - 40 - was revealed on an Internet database. |
| November 15, 2011 |
| Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in serious trouble |
| Late yesterday an ITC judge ruled that smartphone maker HTC has infringed two Apple patents, and it seems likely that every single Android device out there infringes the same patents. |
| July 16, 2011 |
| Apple faces Germany ban after court no-show |
| Sales of iPhones and iPads are on the brink of being banned in Germany as a result of a court battle over Apple's alleged infringement of Motorola patents - but the fruity fondleslab maker reckons it can get the injunction suspended even though it failed to turn up. |
| November 7, 2011 |
| Apple files to keep Samsung from seeing iPhone 5 and iPad 3 |
| A request by Samsung to see Apple's upcoming versions of the iPhone and iPad as part of a lawsuit has been sternly responded to by Apple. CNet's News.com reports that Apple has filed a request in the District Court for the Northern District of California earlier this week asking the court to deny Samsung's request to see the designs for the iPad 3 and iPhone 5. In its response, Apple stated that Samsung's request was simply "a transparent and improper attempt to harass Apple by demanding extremely sensitive trade secrets that have no relevance to Apple's infringement claims or to Samsung's defenses to a preliminary injunction." The judge will make his decision on this matter on Friday, according to the story. |
| June 15, 2011 |
| Apple is a patent bully |
| "Patents were meant to encourage innovation, but lately they are being used as a weapon to stop it", David Drummond, Google chief legal officer, writes in a blog post late yesterday afternoon. He's absolutely right. |
| August 4, 2011 |
| Apple lawsuit is not targeting Galaxy Nexus unlock screen |
| The Korea Herald today is reporting that the unlocking mechanism on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is not the subject of a new legal complaint filed by Apple. |
| January 25, 2012 |
| Apple loses 'iPad' trademark in China |
| A Chinese court has ruled against Apple in an ongoing legal battle over the 'iPad' trademark, which could lead to Apple marketing the highly coveted product under a new name. |
| December 6, 2011 |
| Apple Offers Flawed Evidence in Lawsuit against Samsung |
| Apple and its lawyers have, perhaps inadvertently, misled the judge of a Düsseldorf court by filing flawed evidence of the similarity between the iPad 2 and Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets based on an inaccurate picture, an investigation by Webwereld.nl, a Dutch IDG publication, has found. |
| August 15, 2011 |
| Apple v Samsung: Jobs strikes back |
| Last week Samsung went to the International Trade Commission to try to ban the import of Apple's phones into the US. In response Apple has now tried to stop the sale of four specified Samsung handsets on claims that they infringe Apple patents. |
| July 4, 2011 |
| Adobe, Apple, Google hit by wage-fixing case |
| Six of Silicon Valley's largest companies have been named in a class action suit seeking compensation for anti-competitive employment practices to which the companies have already admitted. |
| May 4, 2011 |
| Apple, Google, Adobe sued for allegedly fixing salaries |
| In an attempt to stave off multi-million dollar bidding wars, several high-tech companies entered into agreements that the Department of Justice now says violated anti-trust laws. |
| May 16, 2011 |
| AT&T responds to Justice Department's lawsuit |
| AT&T is striking back against the US Department of Justice. Back on August 31, the government agency filed a lawsuit against the wireless phone carrier, claiming that its proposed $39 billion merger with rival T-Mobile "would remove a significant competitive force from the market." Now Bloomberg reports that AT&T has filed its formal response to the Justice Department lawsuit, saying that the agency has yet to prove that there would be any reduction in wireless competition if the merger is approved. |
| September 10, 2011 |
| Australian court clears sale of Samsung Galaxy tab |
| Samsung Electronics Co. is closer to selling its new Galaxy tablet computer in Australia after a court on Wednesday overturned a ruling that sided with Apple's allegations Samsung had copied its iPad and iPhone. |
| November 30, 2011 |
| B |
| BofA's Countrywide to pay $335 million over bias case |
| Bank of America Corp's Countrywide Financial unit agreed on Wednesday to pay a record $335 million to settle civil charges that it discriminated against minority homebuyers, an historic settlement for the Obama administration in the wake of the subprime mortgage morass. |
| December 21, 2011 |
| C |
| Can Apple really sue Google or Microsoft for using its patented sliding on/off switch? |
| In last week's episode of "Can you top this dumb patent?" we discovered that Apple had patented the design element of sliding to unlock a device. Gosh, and I recall my grandpa's front gate having a slide-to-unlock device in the 60s! Boy those Apple guys had to get up early in the morning to invent that one |
| November 1, 2011 |
| Citi Fined $770,000 for Hong Kong Employee's Ponzi Scheme |
| Hong Kong's securities regulator has fined Citigroup HK$6 million ($770,000) for failing to report a Ponzi scheme involving one of its former employees. |
| October 03, 2011 |
| Citi Smith Barney Customer Sues Over 2008 Failure to Sell Lehman Shares |
| In a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) Arbitration Statement of Claim filed in July 2010, Claimant Lucchese sought $100,000 in compensatory damages plus treble damages, attorneys’ fee, interest, and cost in connection with various causes of action arising out of his claim that Respondents failed to sell his position of Brothers, Inc. (“Lehman”) preferred stock. In the Matter of the FINRA Arbitration Between Alphonse M. Lucchese, Claimant, v. Citi Smith Barney, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Robert Joseph Malenfant, and Alfred George Weaver, Respondents (FINRA Arbitration 10-03334, October 12, 2011). |
| October 18, 2011 |
| Closing Arguments Set for Wednesday in Historic Insider Trading Case |
| Closing arguments begin Wednesday in the insider trading trial of Raj Rajaratnam, the Galleon hedge fund owner at the center of the government's largest crackdown of insider trading in U.S. history. |
| April 19, 2011 |
| Court defies Apple demand to ban Samsung tablet |
| The Munich Regional Court has chucked out an Apple request to impose a ban on the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet and on the South Korean giant's Galaxy Nexus smartphone. |
| February 1, 2012 |
| Court rules in favor of Apple, upholds ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales in Germany |
| In another blow for Samsung, a German court has ruled in favor of Apple, upholding its ban on sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the country. Samsung had appealed the original Aug. 9 ruling, which ordered the company to remove the German retail edition of the tablet from shelves across the European Union. Judge Johanna Brueckner-Hofmann denied this appeal on grounds of infringement on intellectual property: The Galaxy Tab 10.1's front, the court ruled, is too close in appearance to that of the iPad 2, and Apple's "minimalistic design isn't the only technical solution to make a tablet computer." |
| September 9, 2011 |
| Court Tells Samsung to Show Apple Five of Its Unreleased Phones |
| Is there any danger of Apple cribbing ideas from Samsung, who was ordered in the patent-infringement case to show them five unreleased phones and tablets? Nah, I doubt it—but it's a strike against Samsung, for sure. |
| May 24, 2011 |
| D |
| Dealpolitik: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Class Actions |
| This is a story about class action lawyers who sued on behalf of millions of people who bought Dell, Apple and H-P computers with a faulty chip. Nvidia, the chip maker, took $509 million in reserves to pay for the defects. And when Nvidia finally settled, it said the litigation was a "causative factor" in pushing computer makers to extend their warranties on PCs. That is the good part of the story. |
| May 4, 2011 |
| Delaware Court upholds original ruling in favor of PharmAthene |
| PharmAthene, Inc. today announced that the Delaware Court of Chancery has denied SIGA Technologies' motion for reargument filed on October 4, 2011, upholding the Court's original September 22, 2011 decision awarding PharmAthene 50% of the net profits over ten years from all sales of SIGA's smallpox antiviral therapeutic, ST-246, and related products, after SIGA receives the first $40 million in net profits. |
| December 19, 2011 |
| Dell Posts Mixed 2Q Results, Shares Pull Back |
| The Round Rock, Texas-based company weighed in with net income that rose 71% to $890 million, or 48 cents a share, compared with year-ago profit of $545 million, or 28 cents a share. |
| August 16, 2011 |
| Dell, Nvidia insider traders nabbed by Feds |
| Crusading US Attorney Preet Bharara, famous for bringing down two insider-trading rings associated with the hedge fund Galleon Group, has worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Securities and Exchange Commission to bring down another insider-trading ring, this one comprised of analysts and hedge fund employees who illegally profited or avoided losses to the tune of $61.8m. |
| January 19, 2012 |
| Democrats Want Obama to Approve AT&T Merger |
| House Democrats urged the Obama administration to approve AT&T's merger with T-Mobile citing its potential to create jobs, highlighting how the country's economy may impact the deal's approval. |
| September 16, 2011 |
| Detroit Pension Funds Hit BNY Mellon With $1 Billion Class Action Suit |
| In a lawsuit filed yesterday in Manhattan the pension group says its custodian, BNY Mellon, gambled and lost more than $ 1 billion of its money in investments tied to failing Lehman Brothers. BNY continued to keep the pension funds' money invested in Lehman notes during 2007 and 2008 even as it became apparent that the investment bank was in trouble, the group says. |
| September 13, 2011 |
| Dolby files patent infringement lawsuit against RIM |
| Dolby Laboratories said Wednesday it has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Research In Motion in the United States and Germany and is seeking to halt sales of devices made by the Blackberry maker. |
| June 15, 2011 |
| Dolby lawsuit against RIM dropped |
| Dolby Laboratories says Research in Motion has agreed to license its audio technologies that were the subject of two recent lawsuits against the BlackBerry maker. |
| September 12, 2011 |
| DOJ forces changes in Novell patent deal |
| A partnership that includes Microsoft and Apple agreed to modify the terms of its acquisition of some Novell patents in order to satisfy antitrust regulators worried about the impact on open-source software. |
| April 20, 2011 |
| Dutch court refuses to ban iPhone, iPad sales |
| A Dutch court refused Friday to grant Samsung an injunction banning Apple from selling iPhones and iPad tablets in the Netherlands, dealing the South Korean electronics giant a defeat in its global patent battle with its American rival. |
| October 14, 2011 |
| F |
| Facebook Offers Court 'Smoking Gun' Against Paul Ceglia |
| Facebook knows how to fend off lawsuits. After vanquishing the Winklevoss twins, the company's lawyers turned their full attention to Paul Ceglia, the New York man who claimed to have signed a contract with Mark Zuckerberg in 2003 that entitled him to half of the social media behemoth. Zuckerberg claimed the real contract was just for computer consultant work on Ceglia's "StreetFax" project, and had nothing to do with Facebook. |
| August 16, 2011 |
| FedEx to Pay $8 Million in Whistleblower Suit |
| FedEx has agreed to deliver $8 million to the federal government to settle a lawsuit alleging that the company repeatedly blamed late deliveries on security measures in government buildings. The suit claimed that the deliveries were delayed because of traffic or parking problems, and the company used security as a way to avoid penalties for missing deadline, The Washington Post reported. |
| May 5, 2011 |
| Finra Fines Citigroup $725,000 For Alleged Research Violations |
| The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or Finra, said it fined the capital markets unit of Citigroup Inc. $725,000, alleging that it failed to disclose some conflicts of interest in research reports and public appearances by its research analysts. |
| January 18, 2012 |
| Former Goldman Sachs Programmer Sentenced in Federal Criminal Case |
| Goldman Sachs' high-frequency trading system generates millions of dollars in annual profits for the firm. Obtained in 1999 as part of Goldman's $500 million acquisition of Hull Trading Company, the high-frequency trading system has since been modified and maintained, and Goldman Sachs took significant measures to protect the confidentiality of the system's computer programs (including firewalls to limit access to the firm's computer network, and limiting internal access to the high-frequency trading program). Several measures were taken to protect the system's source code, including requiring all Goldman Sachs employees to agree to a confidentiality agreement. |
| March 22, 2011 |
| G |
| Google and Barnes & Noble get serious about Android patent lawsuits |
| It looks like Google, is going to start defending its allies from Android patent lawsuits, while Barnes & Nobles' is upping the stakes in its own Android intellectual property battle with Microsoft |
| November 9, 2011 |
| Google and DOJ close to ITA settlement |
| Google and the U.S. Department of Justice are said to be close to reaching a legal settlement over Google's intended $700 million acquisition of travel data company ITA Software, which was has been under scrutiny since the deal was announced last July. |
| April 7, 2011 |
| Google gets antitrust OK for Nortel patents, report says |
| The Justice Department's antitrust authorities have approved Google's $900 million bid for 6,000 Nortel patents and patent applications, the Wall Street Journal reported today. |
| June 15, 2011 |
| Google guilty of copyright wrong |
| A French court has found Google guilty of copyright infringement and ordered it to pay half a million euros compensation to rights holders. |
| March 9, 2011 |
| Google seeks sanction against Microsoft expert in ITC case |
| Google has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to keep one of Microsoft's expert witnesses from testifying in the software giant's ongoing legal fracas with Motorola, alleging that the witness has seen the source code for its Android operating system. |
| August 11, 2011 |
| Google settles FTC charges over Buzz |
| Google has agreed to establish a "comprehensive privacy program" to settle allegations that last year's launch of Google Buzz, a foray by the Web giant into social networking, initially shared more information than users reasonably expected. |
| March 30, 2011 |
| Google Wants Judge to Dismiss Four Charges in Oracle Suit |
| Google is hoping to head off some of the complaints Oracle has made against it by asking a California judge for permission to file summary judgment on four issues. |
| August 17, 2011 |
| Google, Oracle Android settlement talks heat up Ellison, Page to duke it out |
| Oh what joy it would be to listen as Larry Ellison and Larry Page duke it out as Oracle and Google wrestle over an Android settlement. |
| September 12, 2011 |
| Google, Oracle settlement talks: Scrum over damages remains |
| The two Larrys from Oracle and Google continue to talk about an Android settlement, but confusion over damages indicates the two sides are far apart. |
| September 22, 2011 |
| H |
| Hasbro Sues Asus Over the Name Transformer Prime |
| I don't know about you, but I often get confused between fictional robots that can assume the form of everyday objects, and fancy new Android tablets. Fortunately, toymaker Hasbro feels my pain. |
| December 22, 2011 |
| HP files lawsuit against Oracle over Intel server chip |
| HP and Oracle are fighting in court again over a dispute about the processor chip inside one of HP's servers. The BBC reports that HP has filed a lawsuit claiming that Oracle has used "strong-arm tactics" in order to force customers to purchase servers from Oracle's Sun division rather than from HP. |
| June 16, 2011 |
| HTC sues Apple for patent infringement |
| HTC has sued Apple for infringing on three patents owned by the Taiwanese handset maker. HTC has traditionally played the victim as both Apple and Microsoft have both sued the company for patent infringement. |
| August 16, 2011 |
| Huawei accused of racial discrimination against non-Chinese workers |
| A former employee of Chinese telecommunications hardware company Huawei is taking the company to court in the UK on charges of racial discrimination. The former fiber optics specialist claims Huawei has unfairly replaced British employees with Chinese. |
| November 15, 2011 |
| I |
| ICANN responds to smut portal antitrust lawsuit |
| ICANN and .xxx manager ICM Registry want a California judge to throw out an antitrust lawsuit, saying plaintiff Manwin Licensing is just miffed that it missed out on the juiciest domain names. |
| January 27, 2012 |
| If Android Violates Patents, Shouldn't Microsoft Sue Google? |
| Microsoft has claimed for some time now that Google's Android operating system violates various Microsoft patents. Microsoft has entered into licensing agreements with HTC, Amazon, and others. It has sued Motorola for patent infringement, and yesterday took legal action against Barnes and Noble. One thing Microsoft hasn't done, though, is challenge Google directly. |
| March 22, 2011 |
| Integran Files Patent Infringement Claims Against Modumetal, Inc. |
| On March 15, 2011, Toronto-based Integran Technologies, Inc. filed claims for patent infringement against Modumetal, Inc. in the United States District Court, Western District of Washington in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Integran, a world leader in advanced metallurgical nano-technologies, has made and continues to make significant investments in nanocrystalline and fine-grained metals technologies relating to alloys and metal matrix composites. Integran also owns intellectual property rights for the cost-effective production of metallurgical nano-structures. |
| March 22, 2011 |
| Intel claims full ownership of Thunderbolt trademark |
| Apple's Macbook Pro laptops and its new iMac models may be the first products to have the new and super fast Thunderbolt port installed. However, Intel wants to make sure people know that it still owns the trademark to the Thunderbolt name, free and clear. 9to5Mac.com reports that it has a statement from a Intel rep saying that while Apple did file for the original Thunderbolt trademark, the company "is now transferring that trademark to Intel." |
| May 20, 2011 |
| ITC says it won't review Apple-Kodak patent decision |
| The ITC said on Monday that it decided not to review a May 12 ruling by an ITC administrative law judge that Kodak did not infringe Apple's patents. |
| July 19, 2011 |
| J |
| Jobs ordered to testify in FairPlay antitrust case |
| Apple CEO Steve Jobs was ordered by a judge yesterday to answer questions in a deposition related to an antitrust suit filed against the company in 2005 over its FairPlay DRM software. |
| March 22, 2011 |
| JPMorgan to Pay $228M in Muni Bid-Rigging Case |
| The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday said JPMorgan has agreed to pay $228 million to settle allegations of rigging municipal bond deals. |
| July 6, 2011 |
| Judge declines Samsung request to see the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 |
| A judge working on an infringement case between both Apple and Samsung has denied a Samsung request to see Apple's iPhone 5 and iPad 3 devices, saying that the company is not required to hand over any of its future iOS hardware to Samsung's lawyers |
| June 22, 2011 |
| Judge denies Google bid to bar Microsoft witness |
| Microsoft has accused Motorola of infringing on its patents with its phones that run on Google's Android mobile device operating system. Google alleged in a filing last week, that Microsoft improperly shared Android source code, which is supposed to remain confidential, with an expert witness it hired for the case. Google sought to prevent the expert witness from testifying, based on the alleged breach. |
| August 17, 2011 |
| Judge in Oracle-Google case gets a lesson in Java |
| Lawyers for Oracle and Google gave the judge overseeing their Java patent dispute a tutorial on Wednesday that underscored the complexity of the case between the two companies. |
| April 7, 2011 |
| Judge rules Sprint, C Spire can sue AT&T |
| A federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that Sprint Nextel Corp. and a regional cellphone company can sue AT&T Inc. over its acquisition of rival T-Mobile USA. |
| November 3, 2011 |
| Judge: It's 'possible' Google Knew of Java Violation |
| It "appears possible" that Google knew that its Android mobile operating system would violate Java patents held by Oracle, but decided to go ahead with the effort anyway, the judge overseeing the companies' intellectual property lawsuit said in a letter filed Tuesday. |
| July 12, 2011 |
| K |
| Kodak Wins Important $1 Billion Victory Against Apple, RIM |
| A picture may be worth a 1000 words, but for Eastman Kodak the preview of a picture might be worth $1 billion in a patent battle against Apple and Research in Motion. The U.S. International Trade Commission on Friday agreed to review a claim that Apple and RIM devices infringe on a Kodak patent for image previewing. |
| March 26, 2011 |
| Kodak wins over Apple in patent infringement lawsuit |
| Kodak has won another battle in its ongoing legal wars with Apple over digital camera patent infringements. |
| May 13, 2011 |
| L |
| Lawsuit claims AT&T is overcharging iPhone users for data |
| A new class action lawsuit claims that AT&T is overcharging its iPhone customers for its data plans. Venture Beat reports that the lawsuit, filed in Oakland, California, alleges that AT&T is boosting data charges by $10 to $15 a month and the rate is sometimes as much as 300 percent off what the company should be charging. |
| May 20, 2011 |
| M |
| Major damages sought in Oracle-Google patent dispute |
| Rewrite of Android virtual machine, affecting thousand of developers, also at stake |
| June 7, 2011 |
| Microsoft Files Antitrust Complaint About Google |
| Oh irony, thy silver thorn strikes like the moonlight through my delicate skin. While this complaint could actually hold merit, the fact it's coming from Microsoft lessens its validity somewhat. Redmond has just filed an antitrust complaint about Google in Europe. |
| March 31, 2011 |
| Microsoft's Xbox 360 memory card lawsuit disputed by EFF |
| Microsoft's recent lawsuit against a third party maker of Xbox 360 memory cards is being disputed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Gamasutra reports that in a brief written last week, the EFF stated that Microsoft's legal case against gaming accessory maker Datel, which Microsoft says is about piracy, is in fact about trying to keep third party competition from moving in on Microsoft's Xbox 360 memory card sales. |
| June 21, 2011 |
| N |
| Nintendo lumbered with lawsuit in 3DS patent row |
| Nintendo has been struck with a lawsuit by an intellectual property owner which claims to hold the rights to viewing glasses-free stereoscopic images. |
| July 8, 2011 |
| O |
| Oracle asks for billions, 15 percent of Android ad revenue, in lawsuit |
| Oracle is suing Google for patent infringement, alleging that Google stole code from the Java programming language in creating aspects of its Android platform. That seems like a reasonable situation — tech companies sue each other all the time. But then there's what Oracle is asking in patent infringement damages: something in the ballpark of, oh, let's say $1.4 billion to $6.1 billion. If you don't mind. |
| June 30, 2011 |
| Oracle looks for Page pyrotechnics in Google Android lawsuit |
| Oracle wants to hear from Google CEO Larry Page in its lawsuit against the search giant over Android. |
| July 15, 2011 |
| Oracle Ordered to Reduce Claims Against Google From 132 to 3 |
| The judge handling the Oracle v. Google patent litigation, Hon. William Alsup, has issued his order [PDF] on how much each side must cut back its claims and/or defenses. He didn't accept either side's numbers but came up with his own, and this case just got a whole lot smaller -- he has ordered Oracle to cut back its claims from 132 down to only 3: |
| May 4, 2011 |
| Oracle to depose Google's CEO in patent lawsuit |
| Google Chief Executive Larry Page has been ordered to testify before the court as part of an ongoing lawsuit in which Oracle has accused the search giant of infringing on its patents for Java. |
| July 22, 2011 |
| Oracle vs. Google Android, Java lawsuit settlement talks will go no-where |
| The judge can order Oracle's Larry Ellison and Google's Larry Page to talk in closed court all he wants, they're not going to settle Oracle's lawsuit over Android and its alleged infringement on Java. |
| September 22, 2011 |
| Oracle wants $1.16 billion in damages from Google |
| Oracle has had trouble pinpointing an estimate of damages it claims to have incurred on Google's part. |
| September 23, 2011 |
| Oracle wants big cut of Android damages as Google's IP headache gets worse |
| Oracle is seeking major damages in its lawsuit against Google over Android in a move that reflects how the search giant's intellectual property headaches may just continue to get worse. Should Google lose this IP battle, Android cuts would go to Oracle and Microsoft. |
| June 8, 2011 |
| Oracle Wants Copyright Claims to Remain in Google Suit |
| Oracle said that no court has ever found that APIs for software like Java are ineligible for copyright protection, in its objection to Google's request that the court make a summary judgment on Oracle's copyright allegations. |
| August 22, 2011 |
| Oracle-Google Trial Start May Be Delayed |
| The start of the trial in Oracle's lawsuit against Google over alleged Java copyright and patent violations in the Android mobile OS could be delayed, according to a judge's ruling issued Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. |
| August 29, 2011 |
| Oracle, Google Move to Streamline Java Lawsuit |
| Google and Oracle each submitted proposals on Friday to reduce the number of claims in their Java patent infringement lawsuit, which could help bring the case to a speedier conclusion. |
| April 29, 2011 |
| P |
| PayPal, EBay Sue Google Over Mobile Payments Secrets |
| PayPal and parent eBay have filed a suit against Google and two former executives alleging that they have misappropriated their trade secrets in the area of mobile payments and point-of-sale strategies. |
| May 27, 2011 |
| R |
| ratings. guidance. the right lawyer |
| Avvo is a legal website that gives every lawyer a 1-10 rating, and where people can ask free questions on the web, and lawyers/consumers can answer. |
| Provides a Service |
| Renault CEO under pressure after spy case unravels |
| Renault Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn came under pressure after a dramatic climbdown and public apology following the collapse of an investigation into industrial espionage at the French carmaker. |
| March 15, 2011 |
| S |
| "Sleeper" Case Asks Whether Plaintiffs Can Sue Without An Injury |
| A case scheduled to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this fall could determine whether lawyers can file a vast new wave of lawsuits on behalf of consumers who haven't actually suffered any damages. The lawsuit, First American Financial Corp. v. Edwards, involves the mundane business of title insurance. But companies from Facebook to the automobile manufacturers have weighed in with briefs urging the high court to overturn a Ninth Circuit decision that they say would allow lawyers to assemble class actions any time they discover a company has violated a law or regulation. Most federal cases now involve plaintiffs who claim they suffered a specific harm because of something the defendant did. |
| September 26, 2011 |
| "Son of Boss" crackdown lands in Supreme Court |
| A tax shelter case going before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday puts $1 billion in potential government tax revenues at stake and may tackle questions about the enforcement powers of federal agencies that make some businesses nervous. |
| January 13, 2012 |
| Samsung countersues Apple over patents |
| Hit by a lawsuit from Apple last week, Samsung returned the favor yesterday, countersuing the iPhone and iPad maker over claims of patent infringement. |
| April 22, 2011 |
| Samsung files patent complaint against Apple in France |
| South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Monday it had filed a complaint in France against its US rival Apple for infringement of three mobile phone technology patents in its iPhone and iPad tablet computers. |
| September 12, 2011 |
| Samsung's patent infringement case against Apple's iPhone 4S to go ahead in Australia |
| An Australian court will hear Samsung's case to ban sales of Apple's iPhone 4S in the country in March, as part of an ongoing global patent dispute. |
| November 15, 2011 |
| SEC Charges Former WellCare Execs With Fraud, Insider Trading |
| The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission slapped three former executives of WellCare Health Plans Inc. with insider trading and fraud charges, the agency said in a statement. |
| January 11, 2012 |
| Single-patent lawsuit hits Apple, Google, Amazon, Priceline... |
| A Texas-based company known as H-W Technology has sued Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, eBay, Motorola, Nokia, Sony, Verizon, Expedia, Priceline, Hotels.com, and 20 other companies and sister companies, claiming infringement of a single patent. |
| April 1, 2011 |
| Sony Ericsson buyout approved by the European Commission |
| The European Commission has given Sony the OK to take full control of Sony Ericsson, three months after Sony paid €1.05 billion for Ericsson's share of the partnership. Along with the entire company, the hefty sum also earned Sony an IP cross-licensing agreement, as well as ownership of five patent families. If you'll recall, upon announcement of the buyout, Sony said that the acquisition was fueled by the need to integrate SE smartphones into its existing network-connected devices, including TVs and tablets. |
| January 27, 2012 |
| Sony Sued Over PSN Data Breach, Failure to Disclose |
| Sony is now the target of a lawsuit over negligence in protecting users' data. This isn't surprising, considering Sony only just admitted that users' personal data may have been compromised in the recent PlayStation Network hack. |
| April 27, 2011 |
| Sony PSN class-action lawsuit ban prompts. |
| The consumer electronics giant is the subject of a new lawsuit filed with the US District Court for Northern California, Gamespot reports. |
| December 21, 2011 |
| Supreme Court Sides With Wal-Mart in Sex-Bias Case |
| In the largest sexual discrimination lawsuit ever, the Supreme Court sided with retail king Wal-Mart (WMT) on Monday, overturning a ruling that granted class-action status to female employees that had sought billions of dollars. |
| June 20, 2011 |
| T |
| T-Mobile Wants to Prevent US Ban on Samsung Products |
| T-Mobile USA asked a court on Wednesday leave to submit a brief of amicus curiae ("friend of the court") to prevent a preliminary injunction asked by Apple against the sale in the United States of Samsung's Galaxy S 4G smartphone and Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, citing its impact on holiday sales this year. |
| September 29, 2011 |
| Target Corp. To Settle Discrimination Lawsuit |
| Retail giant Target Corp. will pay $160,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit in which the company was accused of failing to provide reasonable accommodations to a cart attendant with cerebral palsy at an Orange County store, it was announced Wednesday. |
| July 5, 2011 |
| TI Sued Over Patent Infringement in OMAP 3 and 4 Series |
| Texas Instruments is facing a patent infringement suit from Cradle IP, which claims that the company is violating three of its patents with its TMS320-series digital signal processors as well as its ARM-based AM389x Sitara and OMAP3 and 4 processors. |
| December 21, 2011 |
| Tesla Motors sues BBC for defamation |
| Back in 2008, we reported how in comparison tests between the electric Tesla Roadster and a Lotus Elise, Jeremy Clarkson and co. falsely declared the Tesla ran out of juice and had to be pushed home. The programme later said it was only showing what would have happened had the Roadster actually ran out of charge. It didn't appear that way in the show itself. |
| March 30, 2011 |
| Toronto law firm files $1 billion lawsuit over Playstation Network attack |
| The pile on by customers and others due to the cyber attacks on Sony's Playstation Network continues. According to Gamasutra, a Toronto law firm has filed a lawsuit against Sony, asking for damages in excess of $1 billion as a result of the attack that exposed the personal info of tens of millions of Playstation Network users. |
| May 4, 2011 |
| Toys R Us to pay $1.3 million for violating FTC order |
| Toys R Us has agreed to pay a $1.3 million penalty for violating a 1998 order that barred it from pushing suppliers to refuse to sell to competitors or from urging limits to those sales, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday. |
| March 29, 2011 |
| U |
| U.S. Regulators Probe India's Infosys Over Visa Misuse |
| U.S. investigators are probing Infosys Technologies to determine whether the Indian software giant violated America visa laws by placing its foreign employees in temporary jobs located in the U.S. |
| May 25, 2011 |
| Universal closes in on EMI. Lawsuits to follow? |
| The world's largest record company, Universal Music, is set to swallow Britain's biggest - EMI – according to reports in the financial press. The most recent rumour sees EMI going two ways: with the profitable music publishing division heading to Sony for $2.2bn, while UMG picks up the recordings for $1.9bn. |
| November 11, 2011 |
| Z |
| Zynga receives lawsuit over FarmVille and other games |
| Zynga Games has been issued a lawsuit today by Segan LLC. Segan LLC alleges that Zynga violated a 2006 patent the company received. According to TechCrunch, the patent is entitled "System for Viewing Content Over A Network and Method Thenrfor". The allegation can be read online, via this PDF link. The document credits Marc Segan and Gene Lewin as the developers of the technology that was patented. A quote from the patent follows: |
| August 1, 2011 |