The tech giant is slapped with a class action suit, which alleges it knowingly sold users iPhone 4 smartphones with power buttons that broke shortly after the 1-year warranty expired. [Read more]
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Apple looks to add Galaxy S4 to Samsung lawsuit
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on May 14, 2013
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The company says that it has evaluated Samsung’s handset and has found it to be in violation of its patents. [Read more]
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Bitcoin exchange partnership dissolves with lawsuit
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on May 3, 2013
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CoinLab files lawsuit against key Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox alleging breach of contract in deal to manage North America operations. [Read more]
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Warner Bros. hit with lawsuit over Keyboard Cat and Nyan Cat use
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on May 3, 2013
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If you’ve never seen Keyboard Cat or Nyan Cat, welcome to your first day on the Internet. That aside, both videos, one lovable and the other maddening in a good way, are the source of a lawsuit against Warner Brothers due to its use of them without permission, credit, or compensation to their creators. Game
Sega and Gearbox hit with lawsuit over false advertisement
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on May 2, 2013
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Aliens: Colonial Marines popped up in the news a few times last year, perhaps most notably last summer when word had it the game wouldn’t have any female characters, a rumor that was squashed a couple months later. Now that the game has finally released, gamers have discovered a different area that has proved disappointing:
Judge Throws Out Craigslist’s Copyright Lawsuit, But It Can Still Sue 3Taps Over Data Use
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on May 1, 2013
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A California federal judge has ruled that Craigslist can’t sue real estate listings platforms 3Taps, PadMapper, and Discover Home Network for copyright infringement. But the judgement isn’t a complete victory for the developers of 3Taps because Craigslist is still allowed to sue the startup for gaining unauthorized access to data on its Web site. Critics of Craiglist’s actions have said that they stifle innovation and competition.
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Update: Opera slaps former designer with $3.4M lawsuit for spilling secrets
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on April 30, 2013
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Opera Software has sued a former designer, claiming that work he did for the company ended up in a project at rival Mozilla, according to Norwegian press reports today.
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Carfax suffers antitrust lawsuit from auto dealerships across the nation
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on April 27, 2013
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Carfax is a service that allows users to essentially perform a background check on cars, getting a look into their history and whether they’ve been in any reported wrecks, been salvaged, or any other details that could drastically reduce the asking price. While some consumers swear by the service, some dealerships aren’t happy with it,
iPhone warranty lawsuit prompts $53 million settlement, according to leak
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on April 12, 2013
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Some Apple iPhone and iPod Touch consumers have been up in arms, claiming that the Cupertino company has consistently refused to properly honor warranties and fix faulty devices. It would seem Apple has dealt with the issue, according to Wired, which got its hands on a PDF of the alleged settlement that will be filed
Fisker Automotive hit with lawsuit due to last-minute layoffs
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on April 9, 2013
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Fisker, maker of the beautiful Karma hybrid luxury vehicle, had a rough time last year, reportedly having fire issues with some of its cars and then losing hundreds of them during Hurricane Sandy. On April 5, we reported that the company had laid off about 75-percent of its workforce in what seemed to be a
Judge Denies Class Action Status In Tech Workers’ Lawsuit
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on April 6, 2013
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We’ve mentioned a few times the “gentleman’s agreements” which some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley used to reduce the risk of employee poaching. walterbyrd writes “This comes from the same judge who awarded Apple $ 1 billion from Samsung. ‘A federal judge on Friday struck down an effort to form a class action lawsuit to go after Apple, Google and five other technology companies for allegedly forming an illegal cartel to tamp down workers’ wages and prevent the loss of their best engineers during a multiyear conspiracy broken up by government regulators.’” The lawsuit itself is ongoing (thanks to a ruling last year by the same judge); it’s just that the plaintiff’s claims cannot be combined.
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Judge awards class action status in privacy lawsuit vs. comScore
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on April 4, 2013
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A federal court in Chicago this week granted class action status to a lawsuit accusing comScore, one of the Internet’s largest user tracking firms, of secretly collecting and selling Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords and other personal data collected from consumer systems.
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Ford hit with class action lawsuit over spontaneous acceleration
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on March 30, 2013
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Ford has been hit with a class action lawsuit by its customers across fourteen states due to an issue with certain models subject to spontaneous acceleration with no way to stop. The lawsuit specifically concerns Ford cars from 2002 to 2010, with claims that the manufacturer deliberately hid the issue from buyers, resulting in the
US censorship lawsuit against Baidu dismissed
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on March 26, 2013
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A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit that sought to punish Chinese Internet company Baidu for blocking pro-democracy works on its search engine. One legal expert said the case was more of a publicity stunt than an actual legal challenge to China’s online censorship.
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Ericsson targets Micromax in patent lawsuit
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on March 26, 2013
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Ericsson has sued Indian mobile handset vendor Micromax in an Indian court, alleging infringement of eight of its patents without payment of any consideration.
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Apple may face fines over documents in privacy lawsuit
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on March 20, 2013
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Judge notes dramatic increase in document discovery as a result of court’s review, suggesting sanctions may be in order. [Read more]
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Retailer faces uphill battle in $13M lawsuit against Visa, analyst says
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on March 15, 2013
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Specialty retailer Genesco faces an uphill battle in its precedent-setting $ 13.3 million lawsuit against Visa USA Inc., a Garner analyst said.
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Government orders Tim Cook to testify in price-fixing lawsuit
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on March 13, 2013
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Apple CEO Tim Cook will be required to testify for 4 hours on the eBook price-fixing scandal the company was accused of. Apple is the last company, out of 6, to be testifying in this case. The other companies, which include Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin, and Macmillan have all reached a settlement with
Apple Bringing Second Lawsuit To Samsung, Won’t Wait For Appeal
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on March 11, 2013
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sl4shd0rk writes “Hot on the heels of last year’s Apple win over Samsung, Apple is geared up for it’s second attempt at knocking Samsung’s alleged copy-cat products off the store shelves. District Judge Lucy Koh asked both parties if they could stay the new case while the first one goes up on Appeal. Apple denied citing a delay would “seriously and irreparably prejudice Apple.” The company “will likely suffer a long-term loss of market share and of downstream sales”. Samsung replied with a statement saying “Apple will be unable to meet its burden of proving infringement without resorting to the same improper ‘representative product’ strategy,” [that shouldn't have been allowed in the first case.] Although some may think this is a good move for business on Apple’s part, some claim the litigation is responsible for Apple’s dipping sales and stock prices as well as Increased visibility of Samsung. In the end however, all this litigation is most likely going to be shouldered on the pocketbook of the consumer’”
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Apple gets greenlight for Siri patent lawsuit against Samsung
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on March 9, 2013
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Today, Judge Lucy Koh, a familiar name to those who have been keeping up on the Apple/Samsung patent war, has just ruled that she will not suspend Apple’s lawsuit against Samsung that involves its Siri digital assistant. This lawsuit, which differs from the one that went to trial in 2012, concerns patents that Apple uses
Facebook served new lawsuit over bungled IPO
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on March 5, 2013
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An early investor files a new case against the social network saying, “The defendants were unjustly enriched because they realized enormous profits and financial benefits from the IPO.” [Read more]
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Cablevision files antitrust lawsuit against Viacom over package deals
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on February 27, 2013
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Cablevision Systems has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Viacom for allegedly making the company carry 14 channels that it deems as “lesser watched” than the rest. Viacom doesn’t agree, however, stating that the channels are part of a contact signed two months ago, and that Cablevision is trying to alter that contract by going through
Samsung patent lawsuit would have left blind iPhone users in the dark
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on February 22, 2013
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Wikimedia and Internet Brands reach a settlement over Wikivoyage lawsuit
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on February 16, 2013
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The Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Brands(IB) has finally reached a settlement over the site, Wikivoyage. The two companies have been battling each other for several months now, and the battles have finally come to an end. The lawsuit began in September of 2012, when Internet Brands filed a lawsuit against two volunteers that worked on
Instagram seeks dismissal of lawsuit over TOS change
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on February 14, 2013
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Facebook-owned photo-sharing service says plaintiff could have deleted her account before the change but didn’t and continued to use the service. [Read more]
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Macmillan settles e-book lawsuit, leaving Apple as lone defendant
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on February 8, 2013
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CEA backs Dish in Hopper copyright lawsuit
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on January 26, 2013
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The Consumer Electronics Association says “AutoHop” technology is “clearly protected” under a Supreme Court ruling over Betamax recordings. [Read more]
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Execs’ e-mails key in employee no-poaching lawsuit, judge says
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on January 18, 2013
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E-mails between executives at Apple and Google reveal a shared belief that there was substantial financial benefit in agreements not to recruit each other’s employees, the judge in the case says. [Read more]
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Texas High School Student Loses Lawsuit Challenging RFID Tracking Requirement
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on January 9, 2013
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Chris453 writes “Earlier today, a Texas High School student named Andrea Hernandez and her family lost the first round of the lawsuit filed to prevent her school district from forcing its students to wear RFID badges for tracking purposes. The judge in the case declared that the district’s compromise for the student (a badge without the battery) was sufficient and dismissed any First Amendment issues. The badges are RFIDs powered by built-in batteries and one of the concerns was that the badges would be used to track students off-campus. Interestingly enough, the school district claims in court documents that ‘The badges do not work off campus (PDF).’ However, on their website, the school district confirms that it is conceivable that an off-campus RFID reader could access badge serial numbers, but tries to downplay the significance: ‘Therefore, an intruder or “hacker” can only learn that the tag serial number is, for example, #69872331, but that does not provide any useful information. Has the district committed perjury by claiming that the active RFIDs magically deactivate themselves when off school property?”
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Lawsuit alleges that stolen ideas underpin Pinterest
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on December 29, 2012
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A New Jersey man says that ideas he formulated for a site called RendezVoo wrongly wound up as integral parts of the wildly successful interest-sharing site. [Read more]
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Lawsuit Alleges That Early Pinterest Investor Stole The Idea, Pinterest Says Suit Is ‘Baseless’
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on December 29, 2012
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A lawsuit filed yesterday by Theodore F. Schroeder claims that Pinterest investor Brian S. Cohen stole the idea for the social sharing service.
The suit, which was first reported in AllThingsD, claims that Schroeder “originated the ideas that led to the popular, ever-growing Pinterest website.” It presents a fairly detailed account of the development of a site called Redezvoo.com, and its spinoff, Skoopwire.com. The products were developed by Schroeder and two of his Columbia Law School classmates, who eventually brought on Cohen as the company’s chairman and CEO, according to the suit.
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Apple drops bid to add Samsung Galaxy S III Mini to patent lawsuit
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on December 29, 2012
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Apple has dropped its patent-infringement accusations against the Galaxy S III Mini, a mid-market Android smartphone that Samsung Electronics says it is not selling in the U.S.
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Instagram faces lawsuit for terms of service changes
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on December 26, 2012
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A class action lawsuit has been filed against Instagram over the company's controversial update to its terms of service last week.
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Class-Action Lawsuit Goes After Instagram Terms of Service Changes
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on December 26, 2012
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New submitter Alex Belits writes “Users of the Instagram image sharing service owned by Facebook filed a class action against Facebook for the recent change in Terms of Service.” The changes that were supposed to take effect on January 16, 2013 declared for Facebook an unlimited right to use and license users’ photos, added an arbitration requirement for legal disputes, and more. Guess the lawyers involved here weren’t impressed enough by Facebook’s hasty back-pedaling on this front; the company did explicitly disclaim ownership interest in the uploaded photos after a wave of complaints, but left in place certain other clauses in the new terms.
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Instagram hit with proposed class-action lawsuit
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on December 25, 2012
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Suit claims that not only is Instagram making a “grab for customer property rights” with tweaks to its terms of service, it’s also attempting to cover its tail by prohibiting users from seeking legal relief. [Read more]
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Instagram Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Related To Last Week’s Change Of Service Terms
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on December 25, 2012
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Instagram just got a lump of coal in its stocking: a class action lawsuit, which was filed in response to its change of service terms last week. Reuters reports that a California Instagram user has leveled breach of contract and other claims against Instagram owner Facebook. In response, Facebook told Reuters “we believe this complaint is without merit and we will fight it vigorously.”
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Yelp Reviewer Gets SLAPPed With 750K Lawsuit And Takedown Order
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on December 8, 2012
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A woman is facing a $ 750,000 defamation lawsuit and has been ordered to take down a negative Yelp review of a home contractor after police found no evidence for her allegations of shoddy workmanship and jewelry theft.
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Yahoo “Loses” $2.7B In Mysterious Mexican Yellow Pages Lawsuit
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on December 4, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes “CNN reports that a Mexico City court has ordered Yahoo to pay $ 2.7 billion to Worldwide Directories and Ideas Interactivas. The classified directory publisher sued Yahoo, claiming various losses and breaches involving ‘contracts related to a yellow pages listings service.’ Yahoo announced its intention to appeal but is saying little else about the case.”
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Ouch! Yahoo ordered to pay $2.7B in Mexican lawsuit
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on November 30, 2012
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The suit, brought by Worldwide Directories S.A. de C.V. and Ideas Interactivas, S.A. de C.V., accused Yahoo of breach of contract related to a yellow-pages listing service. [Read more]
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Lawsuit possible in NASA laptop theft
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on November 29, 2012
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A group of current and former contractors at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are considering whether to file a lawsuit due to the possible exposure of personal information stored on an agency laptop stolen from a locked car, their lawyer said Wednesday.
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Apple hit with patent lawsuit over iPhone’s use of headphones
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on November 28, 2012
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An apparent shell company files $ 3 million lawsuit over a 2008 patent covering an interface for sending and receiving audio signals from a phone. [Read more]
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Apple asks court to include Galaxy S III with Jelly Bean, Galaxy Note II and four more devices in lawsuit
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on November 24, 2012
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As usual, Apple thought Friday night on a holiday weekend was the perfect time to push some more paper through in its ongoing patent lawsuit against Samsung. According to Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents, after Samsung asked to add the latest iPads, iPhones and iPod touches to its list of claims and the court approved the addition of the iPhone 5, Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 10.1, Apple is trying to put six more devices on the list. Listed in the motion are the Galaxy S III running Android Jelly Bean (but not Jelly Bean itself), Galaxy Note II, Galaxy Tab 8.9 WiFi, Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, Rugby Pro and Galaxy S III mini. As usual, the case will proceed, we’ll wait to hear if these requests are approved by the court and in the meantime, iThings and Galaxys alike will continue to fly off the shelves. Given the season, for now it’s time to be thankful we’re not one of the lawyers spending their day working on this. That leaves us plenty of time for more interesting activities, like hand-to-hand combat against fellow shoppers for the right to purchase slightly discounted items.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Mobile, Apple, Samsung
Source: FOSS Patents
Oatmeal Studios Responds To The Oatmeal Lawsuit: “We Are Simply Trying To Protect Our Name”
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on November 22, 2012
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After we asked for clarification this morning, Oatmeal Studios has released a brief statement regarding their lawsuit against The Oatmeal and a chain of card and gift shops, Recycled Greetings, that published his cards. You can read a bit more about the lawsuit here.
Samsung adds new iPad, iPad mini and iPod to lawsuit, will peek at Apple / HTC settlement
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on November 22, 2012
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Ready for some more legal mumbo-jumbo? We’re happy to oblige: Samsung is asking Judge Paul Grewal to amend its patent infringement allegations to include Apple’s latest 4th and 5th generation iPad and iPod Touch, as well as the 7.9-inch iPad mini. Sammy says it’s arguing on the side of efficiency, noting that the new hardware is up against the very same claims as the iPhone 5 it added to the case last week, asserting that their inclusion wouldn’t be a burden to the court. Grewal, who was expecting this motion, is also being asked to decide if older iPod hardware is covered by Samsung’s original infringement contention, which vaguely described “all Apple products including a built-in speaker and an external audio output port,” as violators. The Judge also recently approved Samsung’s request to sneak a peek at HTC and Apple’s recent settlement agreement. The proceedings seem to keep Grewal and his gavel busy, but at least your legalese loving uncle will have something to drone on about over Thanksgiving dinner.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Mobile, Apple, Samsung, HTC
Via: Verge, FOSS Patents, Reuters
Papa John’s pizza up against $250M lawsuit for text spam
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on November 14, 2012
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Former customers claim that the pizza chain used a mass text messaging service to send out hundreds of thousands of text advertisements even though they never opted-in for the messages. [Read more]
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Oracle hit with patent lawsuit over WebLogic Server
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on November 7, 2012
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Oracle is finding itself caught up in another Java-related patent lawsuit, but this time it's the one getting sued.
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Judge throws out Ohio lawsuit over software on vote tabulation machines
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on November 7, 2012
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A federal judge in Ohio today rejected claims by Ohio Green Party co-chairman Bob Fitrakis that software that was recently installed on vote tabulation machines in more than two-dozen counties in the state, posed a threat to the integrity of ballots cast in today’s General Election.
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Update: Lawsuit filed in Ohio over software updates to vote tabulation machines
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on November 5, 2012
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The co-chairman of the Ohio Green Party and editor of FreePress.org, Bob Fitrakis, on Monday filed a federal lawsuit over software that was allegedly installed on central vote tabulation machines in 39 Ohio counties without being tested or certified for use as required by state law.
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AMC programming returns to Dish with lawsuit settlement
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on October 21, 2012
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Dish customers will get their AMC programming back beginning tonight as part of a $ 700 million settlement. [Read more]
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