Oracle and Hewlett-Packard's ongoing legal battle over software for Itanium has run into another delay, and this time there's no telling how long it will last. HP sued Oracle in 2011 after the database company announced it would stop ...
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A court in California declined to certify as class action a lawsuit by workers alleging an illegal cartel formed by seven technology companies including Apple, Google and Intel. The judge, however, raised the possibility that she may ...
A privacy watchdog has filed a lawsuit contending the FBI has failed to provide requested technical information about a biometric identification database expected to be the largest in the world. The Electronic Privacy Information Center ...
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On March 19, 2013, Nichia has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Tokyo District Court to enjoin Tsannkuen Japan (Sankun Nihon Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, hereinafter “Tsann Kuen”), a subsidiary of a Taiwanese company, from ...
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Luxury plug-in hybrid car company Fisker Automotive is facing a US lawsuit after laying off 160 workers at the end of last week. Industry journal Automotive News reports that a federal lawsuit has been filed against Fisker, accusing the ...
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A handful of Samsung smartphones infringe an Apple patent on text selection, according to the initial determination of a U.S. International Trade Commission judge. The patent in question concerns the selection of text on the browser of a ...
Facebook has posted a Q&A on its website about the privacy implications of its new Facebook Home software for Android phones, though it was unclear if it has addressed all the concerns raised. In a blog post Friday, the company said it ...
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Cloud computing company Rackspace has sued two companies it describes as 'patent trolls' for breach of contract, and asked a federal court for a declaratory judgment that it did not infringe three patents owned by one of the companies, ...
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Furniture retailer and inventor Billy Joe Griggs has sued multinational giant Li & Fung in U.S. District Court here, claiming the company is illegally producing sofas in China that incorporate his proprietary ready-to-assemble technology. ...
LELO has confirmed today that Standard Innovation Corporation's "We-Vibe 3" product has been named in a lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District of California for infringement of LELO's intellectual property rights (Case No. ...
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A German court has invalidated an Apple patent for the slide-to-unlock feature on mobile phones, according to a published report. The Thursday ruling by Bundespatentgericht, Germany's federal patent court, is a victory for Samsung ...
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It's no secret that Samsung is up against Apple in many ways, in products, sales and innovation. However, even in the face of Apple's patent infringement lawsuits, Samsung is still climbing the charts. The electronics giant sold ...
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A federal court in Chicago this week granted class action status to a lawsuit accusing comScore, one of the Internet's largest user tracking firms, of secretly collecting and selling Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords ...
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Ford could face a class-action lawsuit over claims of unintended acceleration in its vehicles after a complaint was filed in the US federal court on Thursday. Bloomberg reports the plaintiffs – representing owners of Ford Motor ...
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Networking and telecom equipment vendor Huawei has lost a patent lawsuit it filed in France against ZTE over a USB connector patent, ZTE said on Friday. The Paris court decided on Thursday to reject all of Huawei’s claims over a ...
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