Neowin News Feed for: Damages

Systems paralyzed by CrowdStrike within 78 minutes to cause $15 billion in losses worldwide

Martin Hodás — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:10:01 +0000

Even though the massive CrowdStrike outage caused billions in damages, insurance companies will cover only a fraction of the losses. A third of the total cost comes from the Fortune 500 businesses. Read more...

Nintendo hacker Bowser released from prison, will pay off fine for the rest of his life

Usama Jawad — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 13:04:01 +0000

Hacker Gary Bowser from the infamous Team-Xecuter Nintendo piracy group has been released early from prison. However, he will likely be paying off fines to Nintendo for the rest of his life. Read more...

The EU is making it easier to sue for damages when it comes to AI systems

Usama Jawad — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 22:58:01 +0000

The European Union is set to announce the AI Liability Directive that will make it easier for individuals to sue the manufacturer of an AI product or its user through "presumption of causality". Read more...

Blackberry sues Nokia for "willful and deliberate" infringement of patents

Usama Jawad — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:32:02 +0000

Blackberry has sued Nokia for intentionally infringing its patents, demanding tha the Finnish company pay damages. This isn't the first time the two companies have clashed in a patent row. Read more...

Apple is seeking an additional $180 million from Samsung

Steven Johns — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 15:28:01 +0000

Samsung paid Apple $548 million this month alone for patent infringement, but Apple isn't done yet and is filing to receive an additional $180 million in supplemental damages. Read more...

Apple infringed upon University of Wisconsin's patent, faces damages totaling $862 million

Adrian Potoroaca — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 06:52:01 +0000

When developing processors for its highly popular devices, Apple was found to have infringed upon a University of Wisconsin patent, and now the trial is moving on to determine the damages. Read more...

Uber sued again, by Canadian taxi drivers

Andrew Stevenson — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 10:28:01 +0000

Uber is being sued following its recent expansions in Canada. Following the city of Toronto's failed lawsuit, it's the taxi drivers in Toronto looking for up to C$400m in damages. Read more...

Apple ordered to pay half a billion dollars for patent infringement

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:56:55 +0000

Apple has lost a case and was found to infringe upon the patents held by a Texas company. The iPhone maker was ordered to pay damages in excess of $500 million. Read more...

Apple vs Samsung jury foreman: 'Ultimately, the consumer is the loser'

Max Slater-Robins — Tue, 06 May 2014 17:39:44 +0000

The jury foreman in the latest round of Samsung v Apple has come out and said that "Ultimately, the consumer is the loser in all this" after Apple won $120 million in damages on Friday. Read more...

Jury awards Apple a further $4 million in damages in Samsung case, leaves previous $119m ruling intact

Max Slater-Robins — Mon, 05 May 2014 20:23:40 +0000

A further $4 million has been awared to Apple in the latest patent dispute onto their $119.4 million win from Saturday, in the latest court battle between the two. Read more...

Nokia and Apple team up against Samsung

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:55:30 +0000

Apple and Nokia have teamed up against Samsung. The Finnish company is trying to help Apple get an injunction against Samsung devices that were found to be infringing on Apple's patents and copyrights Read more...

Apple asking for $3 billion from Samsung

Andrew Stevenson — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:13:45 +0000

Apple challengers, beware! Samsung may have been hit with a $1.05 billion fine, but there's a chance the fine could be increased to $3 billion after Apple moved to have the figure trebled. Read more...

Alcatel to receive $70 million in patent ruling

Paul Ferson — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:29:14 +0000

Microsoft has been ordered to pay over a sum of $70,000,000 to the French company Alcatel-Lucent, over a patent infringement that dates back to 2003. The patent was originally filed by engineers at AT&T, and... Read more...

Spammer ordered to pay Facebook $711m

Matthew Hopson — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:10:11 +0000

Facebook has been awarded damages of $711 million against Sanford Wallace, who spammed the social network with fake messages. Wallace was sued in February, alongside Adam Arzoomanian, for obtaining login details for accounts and using... Read more...

Facebook awarded $873 million in damages after spam lawsuit

Damien Reynolds — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:34:23 +0000

There is spam in the world everywhere you look, whether it be in newspapers in the form of adverts or in your inbox as emails offering enhancements to your body or cheap priced software. But... Read more...

SCO Ordered To Explain Damages In Novell Suit

Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:22:39 +0000

A federal judge has basically told SCO to "put up or shut up" in regards to it's claim that it has suffered damages from Novell in the form of slander and hampering SCO's efforts to... Read more...

Microsoft Faces Damages Over NetMeeting Patent

Tom Warren — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 15:46:43 +0000

Microsoft faces $62.3 million in damages after a jury's decision that the software giant willfully infringed on a patent held by printing software player Imagexpo, LLC, in its NetMeeting whiteboarding feature. The... Read more...

EasyInternet to cough up damages for MP3 Downloads

Sun, 13 Apr 2003 09:36:04 +0000

I can see a bad trend starting here... Internet cafÃ© chain EasyInternet has dropped its appeal against a High Court ruling that found it guilty of copyright infringement for downloading music. ... Read more...