Theres hardly a phone maker not keeping the ITC busy. Staff have ruled in favor of Nokia over Apple, and it has agreed to hear Motorolas complaints against Apple. – Mobile phone makers and their finger-pointing over potential patent
infringements are keeping the U.S. International Trade Commission busy.
On Nov. 3, some good news came for Nokia, following the kick off of
an ITC trial looking into complaints Apple made against the global
handset leader, acc…
News Analysis: You need a copy of Cliff Notes to sort out all the claims and counterclaims in the lawsuits involving Apple, Motorola Android and Microsoft, but not directly involving Google so far. – You’d think this would be an easy story to write. You
start off with a leading paragraph that says, basically, that everybody
is suing everybody else. You could describe it as a sort of a rugby scrum,
but with suits and briefcases. And believe it or not, it seems there are even
more players than…
Facebook is taking accused spammers to court. – Facebook announced it filed three separate lawsuits against spammers this week.
The lawsuits, filed in federal court in San Jose, accuse Steven Richter, Jason Swan, and Max Bounty Inc. of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the CAN-SPAM Act and other state and federal laws. Facebook is seek…
Nasty legal spats between tech giants may be here to stay
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HISTORY buffs still wax poetic about the brutal patent battles a century ago between the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, another aviation pioneer. The current smart-phone patent war does not quite have the same romance, but it could be as important. …
It has become known that a class action lawsuit was sued by two Maryland residents against AT&T and Apple concerning the design of iPhone 4 antenna. That inbuilt antenna caused signal loss and dropped calls for a number of iPhone users. These plaintiffs are claiming to be financially compensated for their inconveniences and intend to [...]
Apple was sued in a San Francisco District Court, and again, along with AT&T, in a Maryland District Court, for allegedly “perpetuating a massive fraud upon hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting customers” by releasing a phone with known antenna issues. – Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ alleged e-mail
response to the iPhone 4 owner who asked how Apple planned to remedy the signal
issues plaguing the phone quot;Non issue. Just avoid holding it in that way. quot; apparently
doesn’t cut it for everyone.
Frustrated over service issues that Apple appeared to…
Microsoft files lawsuits accusing a Web publishing company as well as unnamed defendants of taking part in an emerging type of click fraud known as click laundering. – Microsoft filed two separate lawsuits the week of May 17& describing an
emerging& form of fraud affecting online advertising.
The lawsuits, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of
Washington, accuse a company called RedOrbit and unnamed defendants of being
involved in click …
In the most chuckle-worthy lawsuit to hit Hollywood’s Legal Circuit since Hohan sued E-Trade for allegedly calling her a milk lush, Bruce Willis has reportedly been slapped with a $27,700 claim over a rug! Mansour, an LA based rug store has filed suit against the Academy Award-nominated actor in Los Angeles County Superior Court for [...]
The presidents of Croatia and Serbia met yesterday informally and said the countries’ mutual genocide lawsuits could be settled out of court. Boris Tadić told reporters after the meeting that it would be good for the matter to end in a settlement, “which does not mean the end of court proceedings against those who have committed crimes”.
Microsoft’s week involved the MIX 10 conference in Las Vegas and the detailing of its upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series smartphone platform for developers, along with an announced virtualization partnership with Citrix Systems. While Windows Phone 7 Series will lack backward compatibility with Windows Mobile, Microsoft feels the upcoming devices’ application-development platform and consumer sheen will attract developers and consumers in equal measure. In addition to Microsofts advances in those areas, the company also faces two patent-infringement lawsuits in the same East Texas court that gave it so much trouble in 2009.
– Microsofts week centered on the MIX 10 conference in Las Vegas and more revelations about the Windows Phone 7 Series, as Microsoft seeks to draw developers to the upcoming smartphone platform.
If nothing else, Windows Phone 7 Series represents a clean break from Microsofts past in the smartphone ar…
Tibor Varadi says the ICJ will “probably consider Croatia’s genocide lawsuit against Serbia and Serbia’s countersuit in the same proceedingsâ€. “I think the most rational and logical thing is to have joint proceedings, because the suits deal with the same period and the same series of events that are best viewed together,†the international law expert told B92.
The genocide lawsuits between Serbia and Croatia are counterproductive and senseless, international law professor Radoslav Stojanović said. He said that the two countries must work more on the process of reconciliation.
Microsoft saw quite a bit of legal and governmental action the week of Dec.14. In addition to resolving issues related to Internet Explorer and Windows with the European Commission, Microsoft also had to deal with a lawsuit over the name Bing, and faces another possible suit from a Taiwanese company after a third-party contractor reportedly plagiarized code for a MSN China microblogging application. Microsoft has declined to tell eWEEK how it internally vets code for its software, a question inspired by two incidences of code plagiarism by Microsoft subcontractors in November and December.
– Microsoft and the European Commission, the law enforcement body of the
European Union responsible for antitrust initiatives, wrapped up at least one
part of their sometimes-contentious relationship this week. On Dec. 16,
Microsoft agreed to install an automatic quot;ballot screen quot; that woul…
AT T and Verizon Wireless have dropped their lawsuits against each other regarding the 3G coverage maps Verizon used in its ads and that AT T called misleading. Verizon will continue to air the ads.
– AT amp;T and Verizon appear to have agreed to disagree.
The rival mobile carriers have dropped the lawsuits they had filed against
each other, according to reporting from Reuters
and The Associated Press. Both news
sources state that neither company is commenting on the matter, though Verizon
s…
Microsoft has filed five lawsuits in Superior Court in Seattle to combat malicious advertising. The problem of attackers using malicious ads to ensnare users has been in the spotlight recently after a malicious ad was discovered on The New York Times Website.
– Microsoft has filed five lawsuits targeting malicious online advertisers.
The company filed the suits in King County Superior Court in
Seattle. The suits allege that a group of individuals using the business names
“Soft Solutions,” “Direct Ad,” “qiweroqw.com,” “ITmeter INC.” and
“ote2008.in…
There’s some double counting and other problems with a spreadsheet outlining $1.9 million in state costs for ethics complaints, public records requests and lawsuits directed at Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
