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Google Wins Domain Name Dispute

In a decision issued on September 7, 2009, the National Arbitration Forum decided to transfer ownership rights over the googlewebmarketing.com domain name from Absolutee Corp. Ltd. c/o DNS Manager to Google Inc. After all domain name disputes have been moved by ICANN to the National Arbitration Forum (there is also t...

11 September 2009
02:42 GMT

US District Court Rules Against McAfee-Owned Company

The US District Court of Delaware has issued a verdict in the case between Finjan Inc. and Secure Computing Corporation for several patent infringements. The court also permitted and ruled an injunction against the retail of McAfee-owned products Webwasher and TSP. The above-mentioned products, according to the Dist...

20 August 2009
10:16 GMT

Content-Filtering Companies Granted Immunity from Lawsuits

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled (PDF) that companies providing content-filtering software, such as antivirus vendors, are protected from liability, under the Communications Decency Act of 1996. The decision comes in the case of Zango vs. Kaspersky, but the court expresses concern that, in a more gener...

29 June 2009
04:01 GMT

Romanian Telecoms Regulator Shuffles Being Illegal by EU

The European Commission is reported to have opened an infringement proceeding against Romania as a result of the confusion created with the telecoms regulator. Last year, the Romanian government decided to remove the President of the national telecoms regulator, going on with restructuring and renaming this authority...

31 January 2009
07:20 GMT

Herbal King Spammer Forced to Pay Serious Fine

Lance Atkinson, one of the individuals involved in the major Herbal King spam operation, has been fined with $NZ100,000 (US $57,000), after pleading guilty. He still faces charges in the United States, where he is named as one of the defendants in a lawsuit brought forward by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The H...

22 December 2008
10:20 GMT

Top Court Dismisses Allegations Against the Tobacco Industry

After 40 years of smoking approximately one pack of cigarettes per day, Norma Rose sued the tobacco industry, filing a product liability claim, which argued that producers should use less tar and nicotine in their products. A lower New York State Court ruled in favor of Rose and her husband a while back, but now the ...

17 December 2008
08:00 GMT


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