Coke has been joined by Schweppes, Lion Nathan, and the Australian Food and Grocery Council in the Federal Court trying to stop the NT scheme. “Coca Cola is now notorious in Australia for being the driving force behind misleading ...
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Attorneys from a Florida-based law firm have filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit in federal court on behalf of music legend Chubby Checker, best known for his hit record, "The Twist." The lawsuit was filed today against Hewlett Packard ...
Instagram has asked a court to dismiss a class-action lawsuit against changes in its terms of use, holding that the petitioner had the option to terminate her account if she disagreed with the new terms. The photo-sharing service, ...
Australia's High Court cleared Google on Wednesday of violating fair trade laws by allowing companies to publish advertisements containing their competitors' names, handing a defeat to the country's fair trade regulator. The High Court ...
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For the first time, a major botnet take-down has included direct victim notification that warns users their PCs are infected and shows them how to scrub clean their machines. Yesterday's take-down of the Bamital botnet by Microsoft and ...
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Oracle is once again attempting to prove that Google illegally copied unlicensed software code in its Android mobile operating system, but this time the Java developer is invoking the spirit of Harry Potter to push its claim through the ...
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The global law firm Fish & Richardson has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in a Virginia federal court on behalf of Rembrandt Social Media LP based on claims that Facebook Inc. and Add This Inc. used two Rembrandt patents without ...
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DuPont filed a trademark infringement suit against Easton-Bell Sports in Delaware federal court this week. The suit claims Easton-Bell Sports use of trademarks “DuPont” and “Kevlar” on packaging for its bicycle ...
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Tennessee Gas Pipeline and the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Wednesday pushed back against environmentalists' efforts to get a federal court to block construction of the Northeast Upgrade Project. "Riverkeepers have ...
Hackers working under the name of the Anonymous hacktivist collective hit a U.S. government website on Saturday, replacing its home page with a 1,340 word text detailing its frustrations with the way the American legal system works and a ...
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Cisco Systems has been sued in a federal court by East Carolina University (ECU) for the "Tomorrow Starts Here" tagline it adopted in December. ECU in Greenville, North Carolina, has used the mark 'Tomorrow Starts Here' for over a decade, ...
Aaron Swartz, 26, hanged himself in his flat weeks before he was to go on trial on accusations that he stole millions of articles from an electronic archive to make them freely available. If convicted he faced decades in prison and a ...
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Reuters reported that US regulators have delayed by two months a ruling on BlackRock Inc's plan to launch a copper exchange traded fund backed by physical metal,a week after giving the go ahead to a similar product proposed by JPMorgan ...
Driller Transocean has agreed to pay $1.4 billion in fines and penalties and to plead guilty to one count of violating the Clean Water Act in connection with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the US ...
A man from Michigan was arraigned in a U.S. federal court on Thursday on charges of mail fraud and selling counterfeit software worth over US$1.2 million that he purchased from China and Singapore, the U.S Department of Justice said ...
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