Neowin News Feed for: Suit

Surfcast v. Microsoft "live tile" suit date set for September 3rd

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:00:45 +0000

Microsoft is being sued by a company called Surfcast for their use of "live tiles" in Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 . The date of the suit has been set for September 3rd later this year. Read more...

Italian consumer group plans suit against Microsoft

Matthew Hopson — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:49:50 +0000

An Italian consumer group is planning a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over the pre-installation of Windows on computers. According to Reuters, the move comes after a new law was passed, allowing consumer associations to file... Read more...

Mozilla to join EU suit against Microsoft

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:08:38 +0000

On Monday, European Union(EU) granted Mozilla, the right to join its antitrust case against Microsoft. Mozilla has been granted an interested third party status which allows it to submit arguments, to see the confidential statement... Read more...

Google, Yahoo seek to avoid antitrust suit

Tom Warren — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:22:43 +0100

Numerous news outlets are reporting that Google and Yahoo are in talks with the U.S. Justice Department in an effort to head off an antitrust challenge to their proposed advertising agreement. Several advertisers and Microsoft... Read more...

Viacom's YouTube suit threatens freedom

Lasker — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:08:50 +0100

A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner... Read more...

Dell Suit Reveals Lucrative Domain-Name Trade

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:20:27 +0000

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A civil suit filed in Florida by Dell and its Alienware subsidiary is giving insight into the enormous sums of money that can be made by creating Web pages full of advertising links. In October,... Read more...

Crysis New Suit Power - Slow Motion

EL1TE — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:10:58 +0000

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Crytek let the community know about a pretty neat mod that will be coming soon enough that adds a Slow-Down element to the Nanosuit. Have a listen... "Our community member Shajbot is currently developing a... Read more...

Vonage Settles AT&T Suit

Sagittarius — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:57:40 +0000

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Internet phone-company Vonage has settled the last of its patent disputes which have drained much-needed money from the company. In a press release yesterday, Vonage stated simply: "Vonage and AT&T have entered into a definitive... Read more...

MS wins Patent Suit over tech that improves XP Boot Time

Slimy — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:06:31 +0000

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Acacia, a company that buys patents and sues other companies, bought U.S. patent 5933639, which was issued in 1999 to Acceleration Software International Corporation, and formed a company called Computer Acceleration Corporation, which then took... Read more...

"Hot Coffee" Suit Settlement May Cost Take-Two $2.75 Million

mlauzon76 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:35:17 +0000

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Take-Two Interactive just issued a release featuring details on the preliminary settlement of the consumer class action lawsuit filed against it and Rockstar Games over the "sexually explicit" content in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.... Read more...

eBay Wins Trademark Suit

Sagittarius — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:41:27 +0000

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Internet auction site EBay has blocked retailer Perfumebay.com from using a Web site address ending with "ebay" after an appeals court ruled it was trademark infringement. Perfumebay, a seller of designer perfumes over the Internet,... Read more...

Seagate settles suit over disk capacity

Slimy — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:22:15 +0000

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Seagate Technology has agreed to reimburse 5% of the purchase price to people who bought Seagate hard drives in the United States between March 22, 2001, and December 31, 2005 plus pay up to $1.79... Read more...

Epic Games' Motion to Dismiss Silicon Knights Suit Denied

mlauzon76 — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:29:39 +0000

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Epic Games had been looking to get Silicon Knights' lawsuit completely thrown out, but the court has decided to deny the request and the litigation will continue. GameDaily BIZ today received an update on the... Read more...

Vonage Settles Verizon Patent Suit

Sagittarius — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:03:29 +0100

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With the recent security issues and patent infringement suit with AT&T, internet phone company Vonage needs all the good news it can get. The company announced today that it has settled a patent lawsuit brought... Read more...

Vonage Settles Sprint Nextel Patent Suit

Sagittarius — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:39:11 +0100

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It seems like just a few weeks ago when some were predicting the demise of Vonage after an unfriendly verdict awarding Sprint $69.5 million in damages along with a percentage of Vonage's future revenue. Today,... Read more...

Sprint Pays $57 Million in Age Discrimination Suit

Sagittarius — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:21:25 +0100

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Elderly former Sprint employees now have a check to look forward to in the mail as U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum approved a $57 million settlement yesterday resolving a series of lawsuits claiming Sprint Nextel... Read more...

Microsoft hit with patent suit over .Net

Slimy — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:44:20 +0100

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Vertical Computer Systems Incorporated filed a suit on April 18 in a U.S. District Court in Texas against Microsoft Corporation for patent infringement related to Microsoft's .Net framework, used for building Windows-based software. Vertical alleges... Read more...

Judge Throws Out Defamation Suit Against Google

Slimy — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:29:21 +0000

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KinderStart sued Google Incorporated in March 2006 accusing the Mountain View, California-based company of violations of antitrust, free speech, unfair competition and defamation and libel laws. In a ruling issued Friday, Judge Jeremy Fogel of... Read more...

Sirius and XM Slapped With Patent Infringement Suit

Slimy — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:30:33 +0000

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Sirius and XM are under fire from various industry organizations and the public in general for their upcoming merger. Earlier last month, the two companies agreed to merge in a $13 billion deal that would... Read more...

Judge rules for Microsoft in Alcatel-Lucent suit

Slimy — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:05:33 +0000

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On Thursday in San Diego, U.S. District Judge Rudi Brewster dismissed all of Alcatel-Lucent's patent claims against Microsoft Corporation over technology that converts speech into text, meaning that the jury trial set to begin on... Read more...