Neowin News Feed for: Suit

Apple sued for poaching auto engineers and battery experts

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:18:01 +0000

Apple is being sued by A123 for poaching some of its most important engineers, which seemingly violates their non-compete clause. The engineers are helping Apple build a large battery division. Read more...

Microsoft, Samsung settle legal disputes; raise hopes for new devices

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 08:20:01 +0000

Microsoft and Samsung have finally settled their legal disputes over Android patent royalties and are now ready to work together again. The deal raises hopes for new Windows phones from Samsung. Read more...

Apple's iPod 'deleted music' trial may be dropped due to lack of plaintiffs

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:28:01 +0000

The big trial related to Apple's alleged anti-competitive practices against its rivals in the music downloading industry may simply be dropped after the plaintiffs failed to qualify. Read more...

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...

Apple sues to halt sale of third party power adapters

Chris Carera — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:51:59 +0000

In a patent case filed by the Cupertino-based company on Monday, representatives for Apple claim that another company is selling third party Macbook power adapters based on an infringing design. Media Solutions Holdings, through three... 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 07:22:43 +0000

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

Tue, 27 May 2008 10:08:50 +0000

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:03:29 +0000

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

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:39:11 +0000

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

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:21:25 +0000

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

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:44:20 +0000

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

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

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

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...

Judge rules for Microsoft in Alcatel-Lucent suit

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

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...

Belgian Papers Win Google Copyright Suit

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:45:49 +0000

Google has lost in court, but already plans to appeal, against Copiepresse, a copyright protection group representing 18 newspapers in Belgium, which claimed Google News was infringing copyrighted laws. The Mountain View, California-based company insists... Read more...

MySpace Files Law Suit Against 'Spam King'

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:52:24 +0000

MySpace.com, which is owned by News Corp., has filed a lawsuit Friday in Los Angeles against the self-proclaimed "Spam King" for allegedly blasting the portal with spam between July and December 2006. The suit alleges... Read more...

Judge Won't Dismiss Suit Against XM

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:19:06 +0000

U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts in New York has refused to throw out a record-industry lawsuit against XM Satellite Radio. XM was accused last May by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) of... Read more...

Suit calls on Dell Canada to replace notebooks

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:55:09 +0000

Dell Canada Inc. faces a lawsuit filed by an Ontario man on behalf of Canadians who own certain models of Inspiron notebook computers with purported defects that cause complete system failure, the plaintiff's lawyer announced... Read more...

Sony BMG settles suit over CDs

Tom Warren — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:41:58 +0000

Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million and kick in thousands more in customer refunds to settle lawsuits brought by California and Texas over music CDs that installed a hidden anti-piracy program on consumers'... Read more...

Judge tosses part of AMD suit against Intel

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:18:40 +0000

Judge Joseph Farnan, of the U.S. District Court in Delaware, has dismissed a large portion of AMD's antitrust lawsuit against Intel, saying that U.S. law does not cover many of AMD's claims. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD... Read more...

Adobe Planning Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft?

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:23:12 +0000

The Wall Street Journal reported on June 2 that Adobe is poised to launch an antitrust suit in Europe against Microsoft, following the break-down of four-month-long talks over Microsoft's Office 2007 PDF plans. Microsoft announced... Read more...

Suit Levels Spyware, Typosquatting Allegations at Yahoo

Wed, 03 May 2006 14:28:33 +0000

A class-action lawsuit filed Monday against Yahoo! Inc. and group of unnamed third-parties accuses the company of engaging in "syndication fraud" against advertisers who pay Yahoo to display their ads on search results and on... Read more...

Google Settles 'Click Fraud' Suit

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 05:18:35 +0000

Google has agreed to pay up to settle a law suit whichalleged that customers of their ad program were being billed falsely forclick-throughs that never occurred. The suit focused on Google benefitting, anddoing next to... Read more...

Computer Maker Files Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:47:37 +0000

Computer maker Tangent has filed a federal antitrust suit against Microsoft, accusing the software maker of anticompetitive behavior that forced it to overpay for the Windows operating system. The suit, filed last... Read more...

Judge Gives Green Light to Monopolization Suit Against Apple

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:47:21 +0000

With all the hoopla of the video iPod and speculation that Apple was going to release a media center-style PC and switch to Intel chips, it seems that the media last September inadvertently – or... Read more...

Suit filed over Nano scratches

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:16:25 +0000

Claiming that the iPod Nano has a widespread propensity for scratching easily, lawyers this week filed a class action suit against Apple Computer on behalf of those who have purchased the diminutive music player. The... Read more...

AMD Subpoenas 15 in Intel Suit

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:26:22 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices stated today that 15 companies have been served subpoenas in its antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corporation. On the list were computer makers and a dozen distributors and retailers such as Dell,... Read more...

Microsoft files suit against European Commission

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 07:35:53 +0000

Microsoft has filed a new lawsuit against the European Commission, the latest move in its long-running battle against antitrust sanctions imposed by the Commission for abuse of its dominant Windows software. The lawsuit before the... Read more...

Microsoft wins Right to Appeal Novell Suit

Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:10:00 +0000

A federal judge in Baltimore has accepted Microsoft's request for an appeal against the remaining charges in its antitrust suit with Novell. U.S. District Court Judge J. Frederick Motz ruled that there... Read more...

Intel Denies Wrongdoing In AMD Suit

Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:24:45 +0000

Responding to an antitrust lawsuit filed by a rival computer chip maker, Intel on Thursday denied its business practices broke any laws and dismissed the claims as "factually incorrect and contradictory.'' In a 63-page... Read more...