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Kodak Sues Apple, RIM

January 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Failing to reach a licensing agreement with either Apple or Research In Motion for certain imaging technology, Eastman Kodak seeks relief from the U.S. International Trade Commission and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. The infringement claims cover Apple’s iPhones and RIM’s camera-enabled BlackBerry devices.
– Eastman Kodak filed lawsuits Jan. 14 claiming Apple and Research In Motion
are infringing on Kodak’s patents for digital imaging technology. In a
complaint to the U.S. International Trade Commission, Kodak alleged that quot;Apple’s
iPhones and RIM’s camera-enabled BlackBerry devices infringe a K…


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Former US Army captain jailed for stealing $400,000 in Afghanistan

January 13th, 2010 | No Comments

A former Army captain has been sentenced to four years and two months in federal prison for stealing $400,000 from the US government while stationed at Kandahar Air Base in Afghanistan. U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor on Tuesday also ordered David Gilliam to pay about $450,000 in

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Nokia, Apple Fight Continues with New Patent Lawsuit

January 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Nokia, after filing a complaint against Apple with the International Trade Commission on Dec. 29, files a lawsuit with the Delaware district court. The lawsuit echoes the ITC complaint in that it alleges that Apple is infringing on seven Nokia patents with products such as the iPhone 3G and MacBook Air.
– Nokia filed yet another patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple on Dec.
29, alleging that Apple has infringed on seven of its patents.
The lawsuit, filed with the U.S. District Court in Delaware,
is similar to the complaint Nokia made to the International Trade
Commission concerning the same …


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Spring Design Fails to Stop Sales of Barnes and Noble’s Nook E-Reader

December 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

Spring Design suffered a legal defeat on Dec. 1 when the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California turned down their request to halt sales of Barnes Nobles Nook e-reader. Both the Nook and Spring Design’s Alex e-reader feature dual screens and the Google Android operating system, leading Spring Design to allege that the Nook’s designers copied their design. The Nook is encountering delays in shipping to customers, a problem that Barnes Noble insists is due to high demand.
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Spring Design, creator of the upcoming Alex e-reader, found themselves
suffering a legal defeat on Dec. 1 when the U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of California turned turn their injunction to halt sales of Barnes
amp; Nobles Nook e-reader. Spring Design alleges that the Nook, wh…


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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Plagiarism Suit Dismissed

November 17th, 2009 | No Comments

A federal judge in Massachusetts has dismissed a lawsuit accusing The View’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck of plagiarism, The Boston Herald reports.

A federal lawsuit filed last June accused the conservative daytime commentator of lifting content from a book written by self-published Cape Cod author Susan Hassett on the digestive disorder celiac disease. Hasselbeck’s book, The G-Free Diet: [...]

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Beyonce to testify in court over copyright dispute?

November 11th, 2009 | No Comments

R ‘n’ B singer Beyonce Knowles is reportedly set to testify in court in connection with a copyright dispute, after a man alleged that Destiny’s Child claimed his song as their own.
Singer/songwriter Rickey Allen had filed a lawsuit against the girl group in 2006, claiming their 2004 track Cater 2 U was inspired by a [...]

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Facebook Awarded $711 Million in Spam Case

October 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Facebook won a victory against spammers Oct. 29 when a judge in California awarded the site some $711 million in damages in relation to an anti-spam case.
– Facebook scored a win
against a notorious spammer in federal court.
The social networking site was awarded $711 million in damages Oct. 29 by a
U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif.
The judge found spammer Sanford
Wallace guilty of violating the Can-Spam Act as well as a temporary
restrai…


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Facebook Awarded $711 Million in Spam Case

October 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Facebook won a victory against spammers Oct. 29 when a judge in California awarded the site some $711 million in damages in relation to an anti-spam case.
– Facebook scored a win
against a notorious spammer in federal court.
The social networking site was awarded $711 million in damages Oct. 29 by a
U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif.
The judge found spammer Sanford
Wallace guilty of violating the Can-Spam Act as well as a temporary
restrai…


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Congressmen Grayson and Paul Ask Senate Banking to Delay Confirmation of Bernanke Until Fed Releases Information on Secret Bailouts

October 8th, 2009 | No Comments

Below is letter text, and attached is the letter that was faxed to every member of the Senate Banking Committee. 10/07/09 Chairman Chris DoddU.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs534 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingWas…

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Microsoft Scores Win in Uniloc Patent Case

September 30th, 2009 | No Comments

In the latest twist in a six-year legal battle, a federal judge overrules a jury’s finding that Microsoft violated a Uniloc patent with its anti-piracy technology. The judge also throws out the jury’s decision to award $388 million to Uniloc in damages.
– A federal
judge has tossed out a $388 million damage award against Microsoft in a patent
case that pitted the software giant against a security company called Uniloc.
The judge
vacated the jurys verdict Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for

Rhode Island, marking another twist in a case
that…


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Former Enron Broadband Chief Sentenced to 16 Months

September 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Joseph Hirko, former co-CEO of Enron Broadband Services, gets 16 months in prison and is ordered to pay $7 million in restitution after pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud.
– Joseph Hirko, former co-CEO of Enron
Broadband Services, was sentenced Sept. 28 to 16 months in prison, according to
the Department of Justice. quot;In addition to the prison term, U.S. District
Court Judge Vanessa Gilmore ordered Hirko … to forfeit approximately $7
million in restitution to …


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Abercrombie & Fitch Sue Beyonce After Fragrance Foul-Up

September 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Preppy retail giant Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) and R&B songstress Beyonce may be heading to court in a trademark dispute over the star’s new perfume.

A&F filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday to stop the platinum-selling singer from launching a perfume under the name of her sultry alter ego, [...]

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Ellen DeGeneres” talkshow in copyright lawsuit

September 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Ellen DeGeneres” daily U.S. talkshow has been hit with controversy as many record companies have filed a suit against the producers of the show for using popular songs without prior permission.
The suit is filed at Nashville’’s U.S. District Court, in which record companies including Arista, Capitol Records, Sony and Warner Bros. Records are named as [...]

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Microsoft Files Brief in Google Book Search Settlement

September 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft filed a Sept. 8 brief, objecting to the increasingly contested Google Book Search deal. The brief, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, argues that Googles attempt to digitize books would be an anti-competitive violation that would harm Microsoft not only as a publisher, but also its new search engine, Bing. Microsoft, Yahoo and other companies have joined the Open Book Alliance in asking the Department of Justice to examine Googles deal.
– Microsoft filed a brief on Sept. 8 objecting to the controversial Google Book Search deal,
arguing that Googles settlement with authors and publishers has the potential
to violate antitrust laws.

quot;The proposed settlementÂ…confers on Google a new monopoly by
authorizing Google (and Googl…


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Google Bows to FTC, Creates Privacy Policy for Google Books

September 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Google, which had refused to create a privacy policy for Google Book Search unless and until it was approved by a court, bowed to public pressure from the FTC. Meanwhile, Denny Chin, the judge weighing whether to approve the Google Book Search settlement for a U.S. District Court in New York, has extended the deadline for parties to support or oppose the deal from Sept. 4 to Sept. 8 because of computer maintenance in the court.
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Where privacy advocates failed to achieve, the Federal
Trade Commission succeeded. Google Sept. 3 bowed to public pressure from the FTC,
creating a formal privacy policy for its Google Books service before its Google
Book Search settlement with authors and publishers is even approve…


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Microsoft, Open-Source Community Could Both Avoid Lawsuit Damage

August 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft found itself ordered to stop selling current versions of Word, as well as pay millions in fines, to a small Canadian company, i4i, over an XML-related patent violation. However, Microsoft has both legal appeals and code-based workarounds that could prevent it from being damaged by the ruling. An analyst suggested that the relevance of i4i’s XML patent may prove short-lived.
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When a U.S. District Court judge in Texas ruled that Microsoft had violated an XML-related patent held by i4i, a small Canadian company, the verdict seemed to potentially threaten both Microsoft and the open-source community.

As part of the verdict, Microsoft was banned from “selling, offeri…



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