Neowin News Feed for: Sued

Microsoft sued for ending Windows 10 support and 'knowingly' "jeopardizing" your data

Sayan Sen — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 07:40:01 +0000

Microsoft has been sued for ending Windows 10 support this year and for "jeopardizing" your data while being "well aware" of it. Read more...

Reddit takes legal action, says Anthropic trained Claude on Reddit posts without permission

David Uzondu — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:20:02 +0000

Reddit has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind Claude, accusing it of using Reddit data to train its AI models without permission. Read more...

Authors sue Microsoft and OpenAI alleging copyright infringement over AI training models

Mehrotra A — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 17:24:01 +0000

Microsoft and OpenAI have been sued by two authors claiming that the companies infringed their copyright by using their work to train OpenAI's Large Language Model without explicit permission. Read more...

Elon Musk sues law firm over huge fee Twitter paid hours before he took over

Paul Hill — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 22:42:01 +0000

X Corp has filed a complaint against law firm Wachtell Lipton over an excessive "success fee". The fee payment was approved by Twitter's board hours before Elon Musk took over the company. Read more...

Samsung sued for offering H.265 support even after its HEVC license had expired

Sayan Sen — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 08:26:01 +0000

Samsung has been sued for infringing HEVC patents as the South Korean giant has been continuing to offer products that come with HEVC or H.266 support, even after its license has long expired. Read more...

Apple is suing NSO Group for spying on its customers

Paul Hill — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:56:01 +0000

Apple has decided to sue NSO Group and its parent company for using exploits to spy on Apple users. The number of people targeted by NSO Group was small but they held sensitive occupations. Read more...

Canon slapped with lawsuit for disabling scans when printers are out of ink

Sayan Sen — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 19:00:01 +0000

Canon has been sued by one of its customers for selling seemingly misleading All-in-One printers that claim to also scan, and do more, but are only fully functional when ink cartridges are full. Read more...

New Mexico man sues Microsoft for $600 million after botched Windows 10 upgrade

Dreyer Smit — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:50:01 +0000

Lots of people complained during the Windows 10 blitz back in 2015, that Microsoft was attempting to force users to upgrade, however, now it is being sued for $600 million after a botched upgrade. Read more...

Microsoft sued over Windows 10 'destroying user data and damaging PCs'

Muhammad Zaid Tariq — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 07:16:01 +0000

Three people have sued Microsoft over claims that Windows 10 destroyed their data and damaged their PC's hardware as well. The company has dismissed the case as being "without merit". Read more...

Amazon sues three sellers for fake reviews

Paul Hill — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 03:54:01 +0000

Amazon has sued three sellers which artificially boosted their products by posting reviews from fake accounts. The firm is seeking compensation from the sellers including damages of over $25,000. Read more...

Microsoft sues recycling company for the unauthorized sales of 70,000 copies of Office 2010

Usama Jawad — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 05:06:01 +0000

Microsoft has sued recycling company, GER, for the unauthorized sales of 70,000 unused product keys of its Office 2010 software, which had been entrusted to the firm for safe disposal. 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 sued over use of 'iWatch' trademark in ads

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:56:01 +0000

Apple is being sued by a Dublin-based company, which legally owns the trademark 'iWatch'. Apple uses this name in some of its online ads that appear on Google's search engine. Read more...

Monster sues Apple's Beats Electronics and its founders because of "sham" acquisition

Adrian Potoroaca — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 08:15:07 +0000

Apple's Beats is being sued again. Co-founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre are accused by Monster of "fraudulently acquiring" the headphone line by exploiting a loophole in the 2011 contract with HTC. Read more...

Apple has been sued for iOS eating the space on your iPhone after the iOS 8 upgrade

Adrian Potoroaca — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:22:01 +0000

Apple's legal team enters the new year full of joy as they face a class action lawsuit with accusations of engaging in unfair, deceptive, and fraudulent business and advertising. Read more...

Apple sued for causing a man's porn addiction (yes, really.)

Andrew Stevenson — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:49:40 +0000

While it's not uncommon for people with problems to blame others before accepting and dealing with their issues, who would have thought that Apple would be accused of making a person addicted to porn? Read more...

Google gets sued over “cynical manipulation of search results”

Andy Weir — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:15:21 +0000

Google faces allegations of anti-competitive behaviour yet again, as a UK mapping company says its products are now "harder to find" due to Google's "cynical manipulation of search results". 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...

No Doubt sues Activision over use in Band Hero

Matthew Hopson — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:04:21 +0000

Rock group "No Doubt" have filed a law-suit over the band's appearance in Band Hero, Activision's latest spin-off of the Guitar Hero video game franchise. The group contend that the game has transformed them into... Read more...

Google being sued over the 'Android' brand name

Sam Symons — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:59:04 +0000

Another day, another lawsuit. Under fire this time is the glorious search giant Google, being sued by one Erich Specht, for use of the name 'Android'... which he legally owns. Yep, it turns out that... Read more...

Microsoft sued for charging consumers to downgrade to XP

Sean Bradford — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:34:04 +0000

When Windows Vista was released to market on January 30th, 2007, Microsoft gave consumers the option to downgrade to Windows XP if they were not satisfied with the new operating system. However charging consumers $59.25... Read more...

Google to be sued for $3 Billion

Damien Reynolds — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:33:35 +0000

Google have had their fair share of lawsuits lately. One of the big ones came from Belgian Newspapers when they sued Google in 2007 for linking to news stories without their permission and the... Read more...

Blockbuster Sued For Participating In Facebook's Beacon Program

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:27:44 +0000

A Texas resident has filed a federal lawsuit against Blockbuster for participating in Facebook's Beacon program, which tells members about their friends' e-commerce activity. In the lawsuit, quietly filed last week, Dallas County resident... 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...

Microsoft Sued Over Xbox Outage

Garrett Dodd — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:14:55 +0000

Microsoft now faces a lawsuit over recent problems with its Xbox Live online gaming service. Three Texas residents filed a lawsuit Friday on behalf of themselves and others who have had trouble connecting to Xbox... Read more...

Comcast Sued Over BitTorrent Blocking

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:20:42 +0000

A California man filed suit in state court Tuesday against internet service provider Comcast, arguing that the company's secret use of technology to limit peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent violates federal computer fraud laws, their... Read more...

Apple being sued based on Greenpeace report

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:40:22 +0000

The Center for Environmental Health on Monday said that it is suing Apple based on the report by environmental group Greenpeace. The report, released earlier Monday, found hazardous materials Apple's iPhone. The Greenpeace tests revealed... 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...

Apple Sued Over iPhone Price Cuts

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:41:22 +0000

An owner of Apple's iPhone filed a federal lawsuit against the digital media giant, claiming that the price reduction injured early adopters, like herself, because they cannot resell the product for the same profit as... Read more...

Microsoft sued over WGA spyware allegations in China

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:10:04 +0000

Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage woes aren't likely to end any time soon. Soon after a global WGA failure caused by human error comes word that a privacy suit has been brought against the company in... 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...

Amazon, Google, Yahoo, And Others Sued For Automating E-mail

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:47:44 +0000

Attorneys representing Polaris IP filed a claim of patent infringement in U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas against AOL, Amazon, Borders, Google, IAC, and Yahoo with regards to Texas-based Polaris IP and... Read more...

Apple, Sony sued over faulty batteries

Steven Parker — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:01:53 +0000

Apple and Sony are being sued by a Japanese couple for shipping defective batteries. Sony says this is the first lawsuit regarding its defective batteries. Many vendors were affected by this matter when ten million... 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...

Sony sued over Blu-ray

Fri, 25 May 2007 14:47:42 +0000

Irvine, California-based Target Technology has filed a suit against Sony, seeking damages for alleged patent violations related to the electronics giant’s Blu-ray technology. The suit, which names Sony Computer Entertainment America, Sony Pictures and Sony... Read more...

Apple Sued for Deceptive MacBook and MacBook Pro Advertising

Fri, 18 May 2007 18:55:44 +0000

Apple Incorporated is facing a class action lawsuit alleging the company advertised the LCD screens on its MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops as being superior, but knowingly shipped screens that did not meet its original... Read more...

School Sued Over MySpace Photo Response

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:16:04 +0000

Be careful how you portray yourself on the Internet. One day you may regret it or, alternatively, possibly make some money with a nice lawsuit. Stacy Snyder posted a photo entitled "Drunken Pirate" on... Read more...

Microsoft Sued Over Windows, Office and SQL Products

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:19:22 +0000

James Taylor, a Texas inventor, has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas against Microsoft, claiming that the software giant's Windows operating systems, Office applications, and SQL database technology violate his... Read more...

Apple, Samsung, Sandisk sued over MP3

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:53:22 +0000

Over the weekend it became known that Texas MP3 Technologies plans to take on Apple, Samsung Electronics, and Sandisk with a patent-infringement lawsuit filed on February 16 in Marshall, Texas. In the complaint, Texas MP3... Read more...

Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo Sued Over Joystick Port Patent

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:53:15 +0000

As the latest lawsuit to be leveled against video game hardware manufacturers, Richardson, Texas based Fenner Investments has filed suit against Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo for infringing on the company's patent number 6,297,751 for a... Read more...