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Judge invalidates 13 Motorola patent claims against Microsoft
- 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 accuses former employees of taking confidential files to Nvidia
- 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…
Judge rejects Apple's trademark complaint over Amazon's Appstore
- 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 hit with class-action lawsuit following terms of service snafu
- 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 sues LG for allegedly copying PLS display technology
- 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…
Anonymous member convicted for DDoS against PayPal, others
- 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,…
Nokia files suit against RIM to enforce Stockholm patent ruling
- Nokia has decided to take legal action against Research In Motion in hopes of settling a longstanding dispute between the two handset makers with regards to patent licensing. The Finnish phone maker says they are seeking to enforce an arbitration…
Apple must share HTC settlement details with Samsung
- A few days ago Apple and HTC settled a longstanding patent dispute that resolved all current lawsuits between them and resulted in a 10-year licensing deal to share existing and future patents. Financial details were kept under wraps, and though…
LA lawyer files suit against Microsoft over Surface storage capacity
- Los Angeles-based lawyer Andrew Sokolowski has filed a suit against Microsoft due to the fact the company’s Surface RT tablet ships with less free space than advertised. The attorney believes Microsoft intentionally buried details about the actual amount of usable…
Pandora files lawsuit against ASCAP in search of lower licensing fees
- Pandora has filed a lawsuit against the American Society of Composers, Author and Publishers (ASCAP) in an effort to receive a lower licensing fee to use their music. The world’s largest Internet radio service specifically asked a federal court in…
Judge dismisses Apple's patent licensing fee lawsuit against Motorola
- Wisconsin US District Court Judge Barbara Crabb has dismissed Apple’s lawsuit against Motorola with prejudice. A spokesperson for Apple declined to comment following the dismissal but they are seeking to have the dismissal made without prejudice. That would allow the…
Federal court: If users don't click, your terms of service is invalid
- A Federal court in Nevada has ruled that because users weren't forced to click through Zappos' terms of service agreement, the company's terms are invalid. The ruling is the result of a lawsuit regarding an unfortunate security breach at Zappos…
Judge largely dismisses suit against Sony over PSN breach
- US District Judge Anthony J. Battaglia has largely dismissed (PDF) a class action suit over Sony's 2011 hacking fiasco. Shortly after Sony revealed that hackers had swiped the personal details of tens of millions of PlayStation customers in a massive security…
Amazon to issue e-book refunds per antitrust settlement
- If you’ve purchased an Amazon Kindle e-book within the past couple of years, you might be eligible to receive a credit as part of an antitrust settlement reached in April. Yes, this is the same settlement that was reached between…
Americans could lose the right to resell their own possessions
- This fall, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could drastically affect your ability to resell everyday items like artwork, books, CDs / DVDs, electronics and even furniture. If a certain book publisher has their way, American consumers would…
Samsung alleges jury foreman tainted patent trial with Apple
- Samsung has requested that a judge toss out a recent verdict awarded to Apple as part of an ongoing patent dispute. The Korean company claims jury foreman Velvin Hogan failed to disclose the fact that he filed for bankruptcy in…
Samsung adds iPhone 5 to patent lawsuit, Galaxy Tab 10.1 ban lifted
- As promised last month, Samsung has filed a motion against Apple claiming the iPhone 5 infringes on several patents owned by the South Korean company. Cupertino’s latest handset will be added to a pending lawsuit against previous iPhone, iPad and…
Valve has until October 10 to resolve EULA dispute in Germany
- Valve is facing legal action from the Federation of German Consumer Organizations regarding recent changes made to their end-user license agreement (EULA). A representative for the organization says the developer has until October 10 to respond to their desist order…
Twitter hands over Occupy protestor data to avoid hefty fines
- Twitter was given until September 15 to either give up tweets belonging to Occupy Wall Street protestor Malcolm Harris or face stiff financial penalties from a New York State Supreme Court judge. The microblogging service elected to avoid any further…
Twitter ordered to identify protester, argues users own their data
- A New York State Supreme Court judge ordered Twitter to hand over the account information of Occupy Wall Street protester Malcolm Harris, Bloomberg reports. Twitter has until September 15 to comply with the court order to face an undisclosed fine…
Book publishers reach $69M settlement in e-book price-fixing case
- Three book publishers have agreed to an anti-trust settlement that will see them collectively pay more than $69 million in order to resolve charges that they collaborated with Apple to raise the prices of digitally-distributed books. Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins…
Weekend tech reading: Inconsistencies in Apple v. Samsung ruling
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Late in the process yesterday at the Apple v. Samsung trial, when the parties and the judge were reviewing the jury verdict form, Samsung noticed that there were, indeed, inconsistencies in the jury's verdict form, a possibility Samsung anticipated. In two instances, results were crazily contradictory...
Samsung, Apple face small fines in South Korea, but ruling could have major implications
- A South Korean court has delivered a split decision in its piece of the patent infringement battle between Apple and Samsung. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the three-judge panel declared Apple infringed two Samsung technology patents,…
Apple calls e-book settlement "unfair, unlawful, and unprecedented"
- In a statement issued yesterday, Apple lambasted the Department of Justice over supporting a government-proposed settlement intended to resolve possible e-book price-fixing practices. The company criticized the settlement as "fundamentally unfair, unlawful and unprecedented", accusing the DOJ of attempting to…
Apple and Samsung US sales figures unearthed in court documents
- More news continues to flow from the Apple vs. Samsung trial as Cupertino seeks a $2.5 billion judgment against the Korean tech giant over claims that they copied the design of the iPhone and iPad when developing some of their…
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