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Apple may face damages of $25.5 million in Korean suit
- Earlier today we reported that Apple and Samsung were tangled in a legal battle in Australia where Cupertino had prevented the Korean company from releasing their Galaxy Tab 10.1 in that country. In an unrelated story, the tides have turned…
High Court orders major ISP to block usenet site due to piracy
- On Thusrday, the British High Court ruled that British Telecommunications, one of the largest ISPs in the world, must block public access to Newzbin2, a popular source for downloading illegitimate copies of television shows and other media. The ruling is…
Samsung wants to ban iPhone, iPad and iPod sales in U.S.
- Samsung is escalating its legal tussle with Apple with an ITC complaint aimed at barring the iPhone, iPad and iPod from being imported and sold in the U.S. The move comes about two months after Apple sued Samsung for copying…
Microsoft loses U.S. Supreme Court patent case against i4i
- Microsoft has lost its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in a long running legal battle against i4i, the small Canadian company that sued them claiming willful infringement of its patents in Word 2003 and 2007. Specifically, the dispute centered…
PayPal sues Google, former execs over Google Wallet
- Just hours after Google announced their entry into mobile payments the company has been slapped with a lawsuit from none other than PayPal, alleging that the search giant misappropriated trade secrets when it hired away PayPal mobile executives. The suit…
Microsoft appeals €899 million EU antitrust fine
- Microsoft is back in court today to challenge an €899 million ($1.3 billion) antitrust fine issued by the European Court of Justice in 2008. The fine was a record high at the time and penalized the software giant for failing…
Lawsuit accuses AT&T of inflating iPhone, iPad data usage
- A new class action lawsuit accuses AT&T of "systematically overcharging" iPhone and iPad users for data usage. Suspecting foul play, AT&T customer Patrick Hendricks and his lawyers hired an independent tech consultant who conducted a four-month study that determined AT&T…
Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, others sued for wage fixing
- Siddharth Hariharan, a former software engineer at Lucasfilm, has filed a class action lawsuit in California Superior Court in Alameda County, charging that several leading technology companies in the US violated antitrust laws by conspiring to fix the pay of…
Customers get shafted in Nvidia class action suit
- Many Nvidia customers have been shafted by a cunningly worded settlement. In 2008, laptop owners sued the GPU-maker for defective graphics chips sold in Apple, Dell and HP notebooks. Following a two-year legal skirmish, the class action suit came to…
Lawsuit finds that EMI distributed music illegally on Rapidshare
- EMI and MP3tunes are currently in a three year legal battle over illegal distribution of copyright music. Michael Robertson, the owner of MP3tunes, was able to get hold of secret EMI e-mails, in which representatives of the group admitted to…
Lawsuit: Apple broke iPhone 3Gs to boost iPhone 4 sales
- In a new class-action lawsuit, angry iPhone owner Biana Wofford is accusing Apple of using the iOS 4 upgrade to maliciously cripple the iPhone 3G to boost sales of the iPhone 4, according to Ars Technica. Earlier this year, when…
Lawmakers seek to seize domains in anti-piracy war
- The Obama administration released its plans last June to take a tougher stance against Internet piracy, and Monday US lawmakers released their contribution: legislation that could allow the Department of Justice to seize the domain names of websites that promote…
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