A U.S. judge has put a stamp of approval on a US$20 million fund for Facebook to settle a class-action advertising suit, despite objections from groups representing minors on the site. The ruling was issued Monday in the U.S. District ...
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Samsung Electronics claims that Ericsson demanded billions more for patent licenses after their license agreement expired in 2007. The company made its claim in a document filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on ...
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Google chairman Eric Schmidt has spoken publicly about his company's court battle with Oracle, stating Google didn't "steal" an application programming interface (API) from the rival company. The two are locked in a long-running dispute ...
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Five U.S. privacy groups have opposed a proposed US$8.5 million settlement with Google in a class action lawsuit over search privacy, as it fails to require Google to change its business practices, they said. Google was sued in October ...
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Samsung Electronics was denied Thursday a retrial over the "overscroll bounce" patent in its dispute with Apple in a federal court in California. The South Korean company had in a filing asked for a retrial as it said that Apple had ...
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M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which manufactures semiconductors, components, and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has filed a patent infringement suit in the US District Court for the ...
Law firm Ryan & Maniskas has filed a class action lawsuit against officers and directors of Meadowbrook Insurance Group (MIG) for violation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the ...
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and McCarthy Building Cos. might soon reach a negotiated settlement in their dispute over the allegedly defective windows the building contractor had installed five years ago. The Federal Reserve Bank ...
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Avanir Pharmaceuticals has settled pending patent litigation concerning Sandoz's abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) to market generic versions of Avanir's Nuedexta (dextromethorphan hydrobromide/quinidine sulfate) capsules. Under the ...
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Warrants are not required by the U.S. government to access historical cell site information, an appeals court ruled in an order. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects only reasonable expectations of privacy, the U.S. ...
In the wake of a settlement to resolve violations of the federal Clean Air Act, a spokeswoman for Holcim, which operates a cement manufacturing plant east of Hagerstown, said the company is weighing its options on how to proceed. "There ...
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected claims of an Apple patent that figures prominently in a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, according to documents filed by the South Korean company in a U.S. federal ...
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Honda has filed a response to an amended class action complaint, which alleges some of the automaker's vehicles have defective window regulators. In the case, Grodzitsky versus American Honda Motor Co., the plaintiffs argue the window ...
A court's decision not to prevent multiple Samsung handsets from being sold in the U.S. despite their being found to infringe Apple patents will go before an appeal's court in early August. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal ...
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The individual owners of Michigan-based glove manufacturer Glove Coaters Inc. deny that their gloves had anything to do with the glass accident involving a Houston glass employee last year, and are asking a federal judge to deny him any ...
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