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Apple fined $165,000 in China for copyright violation

, Dec 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Apple always seems to be embroiled in a suit of one sort or another around the world. Back in March of this year 22 authors in China sued Apple over copyright violations. The writers claim that Apple published 59 different books on its iBooks bookstore without permission of the authors. Read The Full Story

HP shareholder lawsuit names audit firms that worked on the Autonomy deal

, Nov 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

HP is currently fighting a massive shareholder backlash over the huge $8.8 billion write-down it was forced to take on its acquisition of Autonomy. HP has alleged that there were "serious accounting improprieties" that led it to overpay massively for the company. HP's shareholders have filed suit in the matter and named the major auditing firms that worked on the deal for HP as defendants. Read The Full Story

Patent suits targeting Google, Intel and others for encrypting web traffic filed

, Nov 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

The technology world is no stranger to patent suits from companies dubbed "patent trolls" who simply buy up patents and offer no products using the intellectual property they claim to own. Another massive suit is brewing from a company sure to be labeled a patent troll by the name of TQP Development. The company is based in Marshall, Texas and the suits reference US patent number 5,412,730. Read The Full Story

BitTorrent porn sharer hit with whacky $1.5 million fine

, Nov 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

A federal court in Illinois has handed down the largest fine ever levied against a file sharer in a BitTorrent piracy case. The judgment was placed against defendant Kywan Fisher and orders the man to pay $1.5 million to an adult film company called Flava Works. The man was found guilty of sharing 10 of the company's films via BitTorrent. Read The Full Story

Automotive dealers associations file suit against Tesla

, Oct 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

Tesla is one of the most successful electric vehicle companies out there. It also happens to offer some of the most interesting electric vehicles on the market with its Model S and the Roadster. Tesla has been disruptive in the automotive industry because it sells directly to customers rather than exclusively through dealer networks. Read The Full Story

Class-action suit filed against Apple over iPhones locked to AT&T network

, Oct 22nd 2012 Discuss [0]

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Apple by two individuals named Zach Ward and Thomas Buchar. The suit was filed against Apple over locking consumers to the AT&T network without receiving the consent of the consumers to have their iPhones locked. The duo and their legal counsel are seeking to force Apple to provide consumers with unlock codes for the iPhone. Read The Full Story

Jammie Thomas loses appeal as court upholds $222,000 fine for music sharing

, Sep 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

For me, the Jammie Thomas case illustrates all that is broken and loathsome about the RIAA and our legal system today. The Thomas case has been ongoing for many years now, as the woman was found guilty of sharing copyrighted songs in 2007. RIAA originally accused the woman of sharing 1700 copyrighted tunes and later chopped the number to 24. Read The Full Story

Patent suit loss could hurt Kodak’s auction

, Jul 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

With Kodak's bankruptcy, the company is attempting to sell off two large patent bundles. The company has had difficulty raising the interest in its patent auction that had originally hoped. Kodak's chances of making a big payday on its patent auctions are now even less likely after the photography giant lost a key patent suit in court. Read The Full Story

HTC is happy about victory over Apple in UK

, Jul 5th 2012 Discuss [7]

Yesterday we mentioned that a UK court had ruled HTC wasn't infringing on a key Apple patent in the patent infringement row between the two companies. The UK court did uphold the Apple patent was valid, but found HTC didn't infringe on said patent. The High Court in London came to the ruling yesterday and deemed three other Apple patents invalid covering slide to unlock, multitouch, and a multilingual keyboard. Read The Full Story

LinkedIn gets sued over exposed passwords

, Jun 20th 2012 Discuss [1]

I don't think anyone will be surprised that LinkedIn has been sued over the hack that exposed as many as 6 million user passwords to the professional social network. The security breach occurred in early June and LinkedIn is now hit with a class-action suit seeking at least $5 million in restitution for the stolen passwords. The complaint was filed in San Jose and sites a "troubling lack of security measures." Read The Full Story

Facebook offers $10 million to settle suit with five users

, Jun 18th 2012 Discuss [3]

Facebook has paid out $10 million to settle a lawsuit brought against it by five angry users whose profiles were used in advertisements on the site. The users were angry that their names were used in sponsored stories and bought suit against the social network last year. The names of the Facebook users were associated with sponsored stories after the users "liked" the brand on the social network. Read The Full Story

New Zealand Court asks US for all Megaupload evidence

, May 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

It has been a while since we've heard anything in the case against Megaupload and its managers brought by the United States. The US has been trying to extradite Megaupload owner Kim Dotcom and other managers to stand trial over alleged copyright infringement among other things. Dotcom and the other Megaupload principles are still in New Zealand and have yet to be extradited. Read The Full Story
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