Neowin News Feed for: Infringement

OnlyOffice invokes AGPLv3, says Nextcloud must restore removed logos in Euro-Office fork

David Uzondu — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:02:01 +0000

The fight between OnlyOffice and Nextcloud is not over, as OnlyOffice has now published an open letter with its demands. Read more...

OpenAI takes down all traces of Jony Ive "io" deal following court order

David Uzondu — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:10:01 +0000

A Google-adjacent company's trademark lawsuit over the name "io" has forced OpenAI to pull all promo materials for its Jony Ive hardware deal. Read more...

Samsung hit with hefty $117 million fine in patent infringement case

David Uzondu — Fri, 30 May 2025 21:02:02 +0000

Samsung faces fresh legal setback as the South Korean tech giant is ordered to pay $117 million over patent infringement. Read more...

Dutch watchdogs slap Uber with a $10.8 million fine for violating data privacy laws

Anushe Fawaz — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 13:32:01 +0000

The Dutch Data Protection Authority has charged a $10.8 million fine on Uber for infringing data privacy regulations. It suggests that users are unaware of how their data is being used and shared. Read more...

Meta is being sued by META for “stealing” the brand name

Paul Hill — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 03:32:01 +0000

Meta is being sued by META for infringing on its brand name. The two companies had previously been negotiating, but Meta has so far refused to come to the table to settle the matter. Read more...

27-year-old arrested for selling modified save data for Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Usama Jawad — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 07:50:02 +0000

A 27-year-old has been arrested for selling altered save data for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The item had a price tag of $32 and included any perks and stats desired by the buyer. Read more...

Facebook launches new tool to let creators claim ownership of their images

Jay Bonggolto — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 21:06:01 +0000

Facebook has introduced a new update to its rights management tool that will let content creators protect their original images from infringement by controlling how and where they appear. Read more...

Blizzard is suing an alleged Overwatch clone in China

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 06:26:01 +0000

Blizzard and its Chinese operator for Overwatch are taking Heroes of Warfare, a mobile game that looks eerily similar to Blizzard's own team-based shooter, to court in China over copyright concerns. 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...

Microsoft files lawsuit against Kyocera citing patent infringements

Usama Jawad — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 13:37:33 +0000

Microsoft has sued Kyocera, a company which showed some interest in the Windows Phone OS at the Mobile World Congress 2015. The lawsuit cites patent infringement as the cause of the lawsuit. Read more...

Apple seeks US sales ban on nine Samsung handsets

Andy Weir — Sun, 25 May 2014 06:00:00 +0000

Apple has submitted a proposal for an injunction that would see a permanent ban on sales of nine Samsung handsets in the United States, claiming that it would otherwise suffer "irreparable harm". Read more...

Demonoid returns after nearly two years, popular Bittorrent tracker is back online

Shreyas Gandhe — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 22:34:11 +0000

Community based BitTorrent tracker and website, Demonoid, has made a comeback after being down for nearly two years due to various copyright infringement complaints from governments around the world. Read more...

Federal judge rules IP address alone not proof of copyright infringement

Andy Weir — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:37:59 +0000

A federal judge has ruled that an IP address alone is not sufficient to prove that an account holder is guilty of copyright infringement, dismissing a case which accused hundreds of illegal downloads. Read more...

Hotfile to shutdown, pay $80 million to settle MPAA lawsuit

Shreyas Gandhe — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 05:14:33 +0000

Popular cloud-based file sharing website, Hotfile, has been ordered to pay about $80 million and shutdown to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the Motion Picture Association of America. Read more...

Patent infringement, this time Apple is guilty

Andrew Stevenson — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:14:42 +0000

It's been very quiet on the Patent Wars front the past few weeks, with very little noise made since the Apple/HTC deal. But now Apple has been found guilty of infringing three MobileMedia patents. Read more...

Four years in jail for Surfthechannel owner

Andrew Stevenson — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:06:51 +0000

The owner of one of the most popular sources of pirated material in the UK, Surfthechannel.com, has been sentenced to 4 years in jail after being found guilty of facilitating copyright infrigment. Read more...

India blocks The Pirate Bay and Vimeo

Paul Ferson — Sun, 06 May 2012 22:31:45 +0000

Indian internet providers have taken steps to reduce the amount of piracy ongoing in the country, blocking sites such as The Pirate Bay, as well as Vimeo, for seemingly no discernible reason. Read more...

HTC files another lawsuit against Apple over patent infringement

Paul Ferson — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:57:38 +0000

HTC has filed a second lawsuit against Apple, alleging patent infringement. The company claims Apple willingly infringed on their patents with many of their devices, and seek compensation. Read more...

Grooveshark faces another lawsuit

Paul Ferson — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:33:16 +0000

Grooveshark has been served another lawsuit, to continue its ongoing copyright issues. The lawsuit was issued on July 15th in the state of Tennessee. As CNET reports, the lawsuit comes with the backing of song... Read more...

Apple sued by iCloud Communications

Denis Wong — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:25:49 +0000

Following this Monday's WWDC revelation of iOS 5 and iCloud, it turned out that the iCloud name, which Apple purchased from Xcerion (who renamed their product to CloudMe) towards the end of April, was intended... Read more...

Citi: Microsoft gets $5 per HTC Android handset thanks to settlement

Denis Wong — Fri, 27 May 2011 23:35:31 +0000

Android is free? Not if you ask the currently fourth-place player in the mobile market: Microsoft. Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer hinted at this notion last October, stating at Android had "patent fees." Yes, just as... Read more...

Oracle forced to throw out 129 of 132 patent infringement claims against Google

Denis Wong — Sat, 07 May 2011 03:03:16 +0000

You may recall the lawsuit Oracle filed against Google towards the end of last summer over what Oracle alleges are bits of intellectual property Google lifted from Sun Microsystems, of which Oracle acquired in 2009.... Read more...

Motorola sues Apple over patent infringement

Joshua Seed — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:21:34 +0000

Motorola, one of the major telephone handset makers, has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission accusing Apple of violating 18 patents. In an announcement on the Motorola website, the company said that... Read more...

HTC counter-sues Apple; wants all infringing imports halted

Benjamin Rubenstein — Wed, 12 May 2010 23:36:07 +0000

Back in March, Apple sued Taiwanese company, HTC for infringing on 20 of their iPhone patents. Today, according to Fortune, HTC has issued their formal response--a counter-suit. The suit involves five patents, which according to... Read more...

'Googlle' opens technology certification school in India

Sam Symons — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:39:54 +0000

You didn't misread that title; a company calling itself 'Googlle' has opened up a technology school in India, relying heavily on the branding of the actual company, Google. It aims to offer certifications (of questionable... Read more...

RIAA awarded $80,000 for each file-shared song

James Hall — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:34:10 +0000

In her second, but almost certainly not final, trial, Jammie Thomas-Rasset (nÃ©e Thomas) has now been ordered by a federal jury to pay $1.92 million to the RIAA for the 24 songs she is charged... Read more...

Microsoft told to pay $200m for XML patent infringement

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:05:39 +0000

A federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has ordered Microsoft to pay $200 million in damages to Toronto, Canada based software company i4i Ltd, for patent infringement. According... Read more...

'Piracy': Why the Cure's Robert Smith doesn't get it

James Hall — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:44:59 +0000

In what some have called a stubborn refusal to recognise that business models must adapt with the times, Robert Smith of the Cure has repeated a common refrain--one we are well used to hearing from... Read more...

RIAA laying off staff, 'it's a bloodbath' says source

James Hall — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:16:04 +0000

Hypebot reports that the RIAA is in the midst of laying off a significant portion of their staff. They quote one anonymous source as saying, "It is about 90-100+ people across the US and global... Read more...

The Pirate Bay trial and a tough new Swedish law

James Hall — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:33:30 +0000

According to the Local, various members of the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) have taken the stand in the ongoing trial against the Pirate Bay now unfolding in Sweden. At one point, John... Read more...

U2 album leaks despite unprecedented secrecy campaign

James Hall — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:06:35 +0000

U2's latest album, No Line on the Horizon, has joined the thousands of releases each year that find their way onto file-sharing sites before they make it to the shops--this despite an unprecedented secrecy campaign... Read more...

Intel sued for Core 2 Duo patent infringement by University

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:41:27 +0000

Although Intel's mighty proud of the Core 2 Duo, it looks like the chip wasn't all home-grown - a lawsuit filed today by the University of Wisconsin claims that the processor infringes on patented technology... Read more...

SanDisk Accuses 25 Companies of Patent Infringement

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:01:18 +0000

SanDisk has filed two separate lawsuits in the U.S. District Court in Wisconsin, seeking unspecified damages and a permanent ban on three patent infringements accusing a total of 25 companies of using SanDisk technology in... Read more...

Cops pull TV-links, claim facilitation of infringement

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:20:55 +0000

Last week's arrest of a 26-year-old Cheltenham man, and the related closure of the TV-links website, has prompted a flurry of speculation that the very foundations of the internet (linking to stuff) might be under... Read more...

Red Hat, Novell sued for patent infringement

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:38:54 +0000

In this sue-happy world, it was only a matter of time before Linux became a target. A company has dared to declare a patent infringement against not one, but two Linux vendors. IP Innovation and... Read more...

Microsoft, IBM Sued over Patent Infringement

Tom Warren — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:00:21 +0000

JuxtaComm alleges that its data integration patents are being infringed by companies that include Microsoft and IBM. Data integration software vendor JuxtaComm Technologies has filed suit in a Texas court alleging patent... Read more...

Apple Sued for Artistic Copyright Infringement

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:28:00 +0000

Apple may be in trouble with its Apple TV set top player and the iTunes store in regards to two separate lawsuits filed this week. The first claims that Apple knowingly infringed on copyrights belonging... Read more...

Toshiba attacks alleged infringement of DVD patents

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:48:37 +0000

Toshiba Corporation has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission seeking to block imports of DVDs and related technology into the U.S. from 17 companies breaching its patents on DVD technology. The Tokyo-based... Read more...

Sirius and XM Slapped With Patent Infringement Suit

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

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...

OPTi Initiates Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Apple

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:08:56 +0000

Apple is hiring. You don't need any knowledge in computers or technology. A law degree is required however. Apple is in court fairly often; I'm sure almost everyone is aware of the recent Cisco... Read more...