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Steve Jobs action figure is eerily realistic and unlicensed
- Chinese toy manufacturer, In Icons, has unveiled a remarkably striking "action" figure which will both pay homage to and attempt to cash-in on the legendary Apple CEO. According to In Icons, their goal is to "honor the American icon and…
Hurt Locker lawsuit targeting pirates comes to a halt
- Refusing a request for an extension by prosecutors, Judge Beryl Howell has effectively put an abrupt end to one of the largest anti-piracy lawsuits in history. Interestingly this decision comes from a Judge who is a former RIAA lobbyist.
Sony is immune to class-action suits? One PS3 owner begs to differ
- Sony's had a tough year. After a series of humiliating security breaches, the Japanese firm stood as a punching bag for the tech community, disproving the old adage that any publicity is good publicity. The company reportedly spent $171 million…
BT sues Google over six key Android patent infringements
- This year has been without a doubt the year of lawsuits, with many high profile companies battling it out in courtrooms throughout the world over intellectual property and patent disputes. Barely a day goes by without Apple or Samsung hitting…
Witcher 2 devs suing pirates, claim to be sure who downloaded illegally
- The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings was very well received last May, gathering mostly positive reviews with an aggregate critics' score of 90/100 according to our Product Finder. The game was made exclusively for the PC -- and unlike many…
Judge rules Twitter "cyberstalker" not stalker after all
- A federal judge ruled today that William Cassidy, a man who has tweeted nearly 8,000 times about female Buddhist leader Alyce Zeoli, is protected under constitutional free speech.
Megaupload sues Universal and joins fight against SOPA
- The file-hosting service Megaupload and Universal Music Group (UMG) have locked horns, after a video released by the former was removed on Friday from the popular video sharing site YouTube over Universal's claim that it violated the Digital Millennium Copyright…
HP sued over LaserJet printer security flaw
- Last week researchers at Columbia University demonstrated a security flaw in certain Hewlett Packard LaserJet printers that, if exploited, could lead to them catching fire. The team also pointed out that the flaw might not be limited to just HP branded…
Texting while driving up 50 percent despite state bans
- A new study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that texting while driving increased 50 percent last year. 20 percent of drivers say they have sent texts or emails while in command of a vehicle.
Samsung victorious, tablet ban finally lifted in Australia
- Apple lost its final appeal today against the lifting of an injunction put in place in Australia by Justice Bennett. Samsung had appealed the October ruling before the country's Federal Court of Appeals, which unanimously agreed to lift the sales injunction…
Judge OKs private domain seizures, orders search engine filtering
- Chanel, a luxury goods company, has gone after roughly 700 websites thought to be selling counterfeit, Chanel-branded goods. As a result, a federal judge in Nevada has given the company authority to seize domains and has ordered search engines and…
HTC faces ban in Germany over alleged patent infringement
- HTC could suffer a very ill timed sales ban in Germany, after it withdrew its appeal to a patent claim over 3G/UMTS standards won by German firm IPCom in February 2009 in a Mannheim court. HTC said the appeal was…
S3 Graphics' ITC case against Apple collapses
- Yesterday marked the final nail in the coffin for S3 Graphics in its U.S. International Trade Commission case against Apple for its alleged violation of patents. The report (PDF) stated, "having examined the record of this investigation, including the ALJ’s final…
Rambus loses $4 billion antitrust lawsuit against Micron, Hynix
- Rambus was dealt a major defeat on Wednesday as a San Francisco jury rejected its claims in a $4 billion antitrust lawsuit against Micron Technology and Hynix Semiconductor. The IP licensing company, which has become widely known for its litigious…
RIM faces lawsuits in U.S. and Canada over service outage
- Users of RIM's BlackBerry devices are suing the company for its days-long service outage that spread across much of the world earlier in the month. The catastrophic system-wide failure left millions of BlackBerry users in five different continents without email,…
Apple must show patents valid in Samsung case, says judge
- In the latest courtroom fight between Apple and Samsung, US District Judge Lucy Koh has said that Galaxy tablets have indeed copied Apple's iPad, but added that Apple has a problem establishing the validity of its patents. The company is…
Apple wins temporary ban of Samsung tablets in Australia
- Apple has secured a temporary ban on the sale of Samsung tablets in Australia after launching legal action against the Korean company for allegedly copying the iPad too closely. In the federal court of New South Wales, Justice Annabelle Bennett…
Facebook sued over Timeline trademark, delays public launch
- Facebook is being sued by Chicago-based website Timelines.com for trademark infringement and redirection of the aforementioned company’s Facebook page to the social network’s new Timeline feature.
S3 targets Apple in latest patent infringement complaint
- S3 Graphics, the VIA subsidiary being bought by HTC, filed a complaint against Apple with the US International Trade Commission and US District Court of Delaware for patent infringement. This is a separate complaint from the one its current parent…
Weekend tech reading: EA's user agreement forbids lawsuits
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Electronic Arts has updated its Terms of Service Agreement for the Origin platform. Following Sony's lead, and taking it even further, EA has added a new clause that prevents users from suing them in both class action and jury trial forms...
VIA sues Apple for patent infringement
- In the latest round of patent lawsuits, Taiwanese chipmaker VIA announced on Wednesday that it has taken legal action against Apple, filling a complaint with the US International Trade Commission and US District Court of Delaware for patent infringement.
Sony changes PSN terms to block class action lawsuits
- This is interesting. In a mandatory PlayStation 3 update, Sony has slipped a change to the terms of service for the PlayStation Network so that users who accept it are basically giving up the right to take part in a…
LG and Sony withdraw patent suits under cross-licensing deal
- LG and Sony have agreed to settle an ongoing patent dispute involving much of the companies' electronics portfolios. The lawsuits began last December when Sony filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission and a federal court, claiming that…
Over 200,000 BitTorrent users sued for file sharing in the U.S.
- The number of copyright infringement lawsuits in the United States against BitTorrent users seems to be accelerating at a phenomenal pace. In January we reported that almost 100,000 users were being targeted using the pay-up-or-else scheme, but a new statistic…
Bethesda hassles Minecraft studio over "Scrolls" game
- Bethesda has threatened to sue Mojang, the folks behind Minecraft, for using the word "Scrolls" in the title of a new game. In a blog post today, Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson said he received a 15-page letter from a…
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