File-sharing website Hotfile agreed on Tuesday to pay $80 million to settle its copyright infringement case with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The website also agreed to cease operations until it effectively implements "digital fingerprinting" -- a copyright filtering…

What's wrong with the patent system? Most people cite problems with patent trolls or low patent quality. But a recent study by the Government Accountability Office makes it clear that the real problem is more specific: Patents on software don't work. Of course, the GAO doesn't quite...

Google has donated 79 additional patents to a list of “safe” patents in an effort to accelerate the pace of innovation in computing which could ultimately lead to better products and services at lower cost. The new patents cover a…

Grooveshark is expected to announce that it has signed a licensing agreement with EMI Music Publishing, according to The Verge. This comes after EMI accused the music streaming service of copyright violations in September of last year.

Zynga isn’t going down without a fight, especially when they feel someone is infringing on their trademark. The social games provider recently filed a lawsuit in a California district court against the developers of “Bang With Friends,” a service that…

Microsoft is being forced to rename its cloud storage service following an unfavorable ruling in the English High Court which found SkyDrive infringed on a trademark owned by BSkyB. Microsoft planned to appeal the decision which was handed down last…

Madden NFL is perhaps the most recognizable title in Electronic Arts’ long list of sports games. The football simulator officially debuted in 1988 for the Apple II series of computers, and quickly gained recognition for its ties to Hall of…

Seven years is a long time to fight a battle in court but if your name is Jammie Thomas-Rasset, that’s the reality you’ve faced for close to a decade. Thomas-Rasset was accused of illegally sharing 24 songs online back in…

A federal judge on Wednesday found Apple guilty of conspiring to raise the retail price of e-books. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote issued a 160-page document outlining the ruling and said a trial for damages will soon follow. The decision…

Amazon and Apple have agreed to settle a long-standing trademark infringement lawsuit over the use of the term “app store.” US District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland, California, ordered to dismiss the case after Apple said they would no…

An unlikely source has filed a lawsuit against Apple for patent infringement – Boston University. The educational institution previously associated with being a pioneer in social media and an outspoken critic of patent troll litigation claims Apple is actively infringing…

For a few years now Newegg.com has made it policy never to settle with patent trolls. Following up from their victory over Soverain Software in January, who claimed to have invented the online shopping cart, now the retailer has scored…

Pioneering streaming television service Aereo has filed a declaratory judgment action in New York against CBS in an effort to prevent the network from filing another lawsuit against them just ahead of a planned launch in Boston on May 15.

Browser maker Opera has filed a lawsuit against a former employee, alleging he shared trade secrets with rival Mozilla. Designer and musician Trond Werner Hansen is on the hook for 20 million Norwegian Krone, or about $3.4 million in damages…

IT hosting company Rackspace is going after what they describe as the most notorious patent troll in America. The company filed a lawsuit against Parallel Iron and IP Nav, patent assertion entities (PAE) that make money by licensing patents to…

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently denied a preliminary injunction motion that would have prevented Aereo from streaming recorded broadcast television over the Internet to subscribers. It’s a huge victory for the budding service and a…

THX has filed a lawsuit against Apple alleging the company’s iPhones, iPads and iMacs infringe on one of their patents. Specifically, the privately held audio standards assurance company lays claim to a patent issued in 2008 for narrow profile speaker…

A Manhattan district court jury heard opening arguments on Monday about a 2011 patent infringement complaint filed by a former Sony engineer against Nintendo over the 3DS' display technology. Seijiro Tomita, a 30-year Sony veteran who retired in 2002 to…

Apple has agreed to shell out more than $100 million in iTunes store credits in order to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged children were able to make app purchases on the iPhone and iPad without parental consent. The…

Microsoft scored a victory against Google-owned Motorola Mobility this week after a judge scrapped 13 of the latter party's patent claims in a years-long dispute over H.264-related royalties. Waged in US and German courts, the battle involves three patents (7,310,374,…

AMD is taking four ex-employees to court for allegedly stealing sensitive documents before jumping ship to work at competing graphics chip maker Nvidia. The number of files transferred exceeds 100,000, according to the company, and contain trade secret materials relating…

A California federal judge has dismissed part of an Apple complaint that accused Amazon of violating a trademark on the name "App Store." The iPhone-maker filed suit in March 2011 following the launch of Amazon's "Appstore," alleging that the similar…

Instagram garnered a ton of negative publicity last week when the photo sharing service changed their terms of service to allow them to sell users’ pictures without notification or payment. The Facebook-owned property quickly changed their tune but things are…

Samsung has hit LG with another lawsuit, this time for purportedly infringing on LCD patents. Filed with the Seoul Central District Court, the complaint aims to invalidate seven LG patents that allegedly copy a plane-to-line switching (PLS) design that Samsung…

A jury has convicted 22-year old Anonymous hacktivist Christopher Weatherhead for playing a lead role in organizing a series of distributed denial of service attacks against PayPal (and others) in 2010. Weatherhead's cohorts, Peter Gibson, Jake Bichall and Ashley Rhodes,…