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Amazon scores partial win over Apple in trademark lawsuit
Apple alleges Amazon’s “Appstore” name is too close to its own “App Store”. A US federal judge ruled Wednesday that Amazon.com did not mislead consumers by calling its own applications marketplace the...
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Salesforce.com faces lawsuit over support service
An upgrade to Premier Support came with a higher price tag but “proved unworkable,” customer Bray International contends. Salesforce.com is being sued by a customer who claims the CRM software vendor’s...
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Craigslist wins early legal victory against PadMapper, 3Taps
Nearly all of Craigslist’s allegations of unlawful activities, including trespass and copyright violations, survive a motion to dismiss before a federal judge in San Francisco. Craigslist has won the...
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Apple wins trademark lawsuit over use of ‘iBooks’ term
A federal judge in New York has dismissed a trademark lawsuit against Apple over its use of the term “iBooks.” Black Tower Press sued Apple in 2011, claiming that Apple’s use of the term to describe...
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Nokia files cases against HTC One in the US
Nokia is targeting HTC’s latest slate of smartphones, including the HTC One, with new legal action in the U.S. that demands the Taiwanese company cease the alleged patent infringement. Nokia is...
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Dutch Supreme Court rules Samsung’s Galaxy Tab doesn’t infringe on iPad
The highest court in the Netherlands handed down a disappointing verdict for Apple on Friday, finding its claims that Samsung had infringed on the design of its iPad to be invalid. The court’s ruling...
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TiVo settles patent lawsuits with Motorola, Time Warner and Cisco, enters...
TiVo, best known for its range of digital video recorders (DVRs) that let users save cable television and content distributed through streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu Plus, settled a pending...
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Apple hit by patent suit from Boston University
The suit alleges that Apple has violated a patent held by one of the school’s computer engineering professors. Apple is on the receiving end of a patent lawsuit from one of the country’s top...
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Samsung faces Brazilian government lawsuit over poor working conditions
While Apple and Samsung do have their differences, they unfortunately share at least one similarity: labor violation allegations. The latter now faces yet another labor-related charge, not about its...
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Oracle wins, Google loses in copyright ruling on Java APIs
Google was dealt a blow Friday in the multibillion dollar lawsuit alleging its Android operating system infringes on intellectual property owned by Oracle. A federal appeals court granted Oracle’s...
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Google Worried That Oracle Lawsuit Victory Could Be Bad For The Industry
In the battle against Oracle over the use of java within Android, Google was originally the victor in a ruling that stated APIs could not be subject to copyright. After years of battling it out that...
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LinkedIn’s Latest Lawsuit Is A Great Reminder Of How We Give Up Our Own Privacy
On Friday, a judge ruled that LinkedIn must face a lawsuit brought by customerswho claim LinkedIn accessed their external email accounts like Gmail and Yahoo in order to bombard their contacts with...
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Rockstar Consortium sells patents for $900 million, ending Android lawsuits
The patent wars are cooling down. Rockstar Consortium’s litigation against numerous Android handset manufacturers has come to an end after the group sold 4,000 patents to RPX Corp. The intellectual...
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Airbnb beats big property landlord’s lawsuit in California
A California judge has dismissed Apartment Investment & Management Company’s lawsuit against Airbnb. Last February, Aimco, which owns or manages about 50,000 properties, sued Airbnb, saying that...
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