Neowin News Feed for: Litigation

Facebook sues BlackBerry for stealing its voice-messaging tech

Sharath Ravishankar — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 06:58:01 +0000

In apparent retaliation to BlackBerry's lawsuits in March, Facebook is now suing BlackBerry. It accuses the company of infringing six patents, one of which bolsters its voice-messaging services. Read more...

BlackBerry accuses Facebook, WhatsApp of patent infringement, files lawsuit

Sharath Ravishankar — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:14:01 +0000

Canadian smartphone brand BlackBerry has filed a lawsuit against Facebook for using a number of its patented security and user interface features in the latter's messaging services. Read more...

Intel might use AMD Radeon graphics in its upcoming processors

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 09:02:01 +0000

Intel and AMD might be entering into a patent licensing agreement, according to a credible industry watcher. If true, we may end up seeing Radeon graphics tech integrated into Intel's chips. Read more...

Rockstar Games is suing the BBC over its Grand Theft Auto TV drama

Andy Weir — Thu, 21 May 2015 14:00:01 +0000

The developers of GTA have filed a lawsuit against the BBC for trademark infringement related to its upcoming TV drama about the gaming series, which Rockstar says it's "had no involvement with". 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 tried to license iOS patents to Samsung back in 2010

Tyler Holman — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:06:05 +0000

For all their rhetoric against Android, Apple was open to licensing its iOS patents to Samsung as far back as 2010, according to new evidence from the patent trial between the two tech giants. Read more...

Jury issues partial verdict in favor of Oracle against Google

Anthony Tosie — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:04:09 +0000

In a controversial ruling in the Oracle v. Google Java lawsuit, the jury issued a partial verdict in favor of Oracle. The jury's results have prompted Google to motion for a mistrial. Read more...

Nokia sued by investor for using Windows Phone

Anthony Tosie — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:37:25 +0000

An investor is suing the company because its choice of Windows Phone has not turned the company around as initially promised. Read more...

EU court rules programming languages can't be copyrighted

Anthony Tosie — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:19:44 +0000

The highest court in the European Union ruled yesterday that programming languages cannot be copyrighted, although original works created from programming languages can be. Read more...

Judge: "I've had my fill of frivolous filings by Apple"

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:47:45 +0000

Judge Richard A. Posner had harsh words for Apple's recent motions against Motorola, saying he's fed up with Apple's frivolous filings. Read more...

ITC judge finds Microsoft's Xbox infringes on Motorola patents

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:39:02 +0000

A U.S. International Trade Commission judge issued a ruling today which found Microsoft's Xbox 360 infringes on four of Motorola's patents relating to H.264 video encoding. Read more...

Motorola found to be violating one of Microsoft's patents in preliminary ruling

Brad Sams — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:20:23 +0000

The US ITC has issued a preliminary ruling in the Microsoft/Motorola patent complaint. As it stands, Motorola has been found to be violating one of Microsoft's mobile patents. Read more...

Litigation is a great investment

Sat, 24 Apr 2004 13:24:47 +0000

Baystar, a group that recently invested (and even more recently un-invested) in SCO, have conceeded that the reason why they invested in SCO was because they banked on getting a good return from the litigation... Read more...

Roxio mulls Easy litigation

Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:53:57 +0000

Roxio told us today it hasn't decided if it is to pursue litigation against a one-man Finnish developer for trademark infringement. Jukka Poikolanien has been selling Easy CD-DA Extractor since 1998, but... Read more...