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The past few days have mostly been dominated by news coming from the IFA trade show, but there seem to be other things going on, not all of them pleasant, as made clear by WiLAN, or at least its lawyers.
Lawsuits are, ironically, a fairly common occurrence in the IT industry, especially because of the nature of t... |
5 September 2011
08:51 GMT |
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Cupertino-based company Apple reportedly filed a new patent infringement lawsuit against Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation. According to Apple, HTC infringes some more of its patents related to the user interface on its mobile devices. The suit was filed with the Delaware Court, the same as the first law ... |
24 June 2010
03:21 GMT |
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Generally, lawsuits filed on patent grounds claim that parts of a product infringe on one or more inventions. Not the suit filed by NetAirus Technologies against Apple Inc., in which the former claims the entire iPhone concept is infringing on one of its patents. Frankly, pretty much every smartphone out there fits t... |
5 May 2010
05:38 GMT |
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Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak) has recently announced that it has filed lawsuits against Apple and BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Limited (RIM), alleging the infringement of digital imaging technology invented by the company specializing in photography. Kodak claims to have licensed digital imaging technology to... |
15 January 2010
05:07 GMT |
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Palo Alto, CA-based OPTi Inc. has announced that a jury from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled in the company's favor in the patent-infringement trial between it and Apple Inc., originally filed in 2007. The suit relates to OPTi’s U.S. patent No. 6,405,291, entitled &... |
27 April 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Word on the web has it that Psystar's EULA (that's right, they have one) is all you need to convince yourself that the Mac cloner is a phony all the way. The company doesn't actually want to free the world of proprietary software (you didn't honestly think that was true, did you?), but just needs ... |
5 December 2008
04:25 GMT |
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EMG Technology, a Los Angeles real estate developer, is suing Apple for patent infringement over iPhone web browsing. EMG Technology claims it was the first to invent an “apparatus and method of manipulating a region on a wireless device screen for viewing, zooming and scrolling internet content.” The su... |
26 November 2008
05:00 GMT |
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Google has decided to fall back from a partnership with an eco-friendly startup. A week ago, Google partnered with Forestle, a Germany-based search engine whose purpose is saving the rainforest. All the income originated from ad clicking, except for 5% in administrative costs, was to be delivered to the Nature C... |
2 September 2008
05:53 GMT |
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Clear With Computers (CWC), a Texas-based company, has filed a patent suit against Apple and HP alleging that they are infringing its 1994 patent related to a system that says customers can sign in electronically and "build a list of products or parts from a form." The patent also includes the provider's ability... |
25 June 2008
16:11 GMT |
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If the European Parliament's initiative to criminalize copyright infringement is going to happen, it will most definitely make Internet users think twice about downloading something off the web. Member states of the EU have been asked to press ahead with the plan and ministers from each country were advised to a... |
22 February 2008
09:06 GMT |
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I knew such a thing had to happen, because there's no video sharing service on the web that managed to escape without any single lawsuit filed for copyright infringement. But, I must admit that today's legal dispute is pretty attractive, since it includes two let's say 'special' companies foc... |
11 December 2007
02:56 GMT |
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IBM today made it public that the company is filing a patent infringement lawsuit against the Taiwanese Asustek corporation. The complaint states that Asustek is currently using IBM's patented products and components to build their computers. IBM has already requested an exclusion order that is meant to restrict... |
7 December 2007
02:59 GMT |
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This is the second dismissed lawsuit of the day, after a court has decided to put the case between LimeWire and several label companies out of judicial consideration. If the first lawsuit was dismissed because LimeWire didn't manage to prove that the label companies harmed the company, the Supreme Court said the... |
4 December 2007
04:45 GMT |
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It's a well-known fact that YouTube has serious problems with copyright infringement clips because the users are free to upload any clip they want. Pele, Daniela Cicarelli, Prince, the English soccer association, Viacom and many others were all involved into copyright cases with Google's YouTube after the ... |
16 October 2007
15:46 GMT |
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YouTube is the top service when it comes to online video sharing technologies, numerous users uploading clips every day. But the recent reports revealed that it is not so safe to post a clip on YouTube as a simple copyright lawsuit might send you to court. So think about it, you're an ordinary YouTube user and y... |
18 September 2007
11:05 GMT |
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Since its acquisition in October 2006, YouTube was continuously kept in the spotlights due to numerous copyright infringement complaints made by other media companies on the Internet. Today, The New York Times reports that several Japanese firms are again criticizing the video sharing platform because YouTube doesn&#... |
10 August 2007
10:51 GMT |
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YouTube has always been a controversial service because the users were allowed to upload any type of content on the official page while any other visitor was able to access it in a matter of seconds. That's why the real owner of the videos often sued Google for copyright infringement, accusing the Mountain View ... |
10 August 2007
10:26 GMT |
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YouTube is a huge website that hosts all kinds of clips starting with cat videos and ending with guitar lessons. Speaking of this type of tutorials, YouTube just lost a valuable resource of videos for numerous guitar students after the online video sharing service was forced to remove approximately 100 clips from the... |
9 July 2007
15:36 GMT |
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Numerous French sports groups filed a complaint against the search giant Google, accusing the company for copyright infringement after several clips were published on the online video sharing service YouTube. The French national tennis organization and Ligue 1, the soccer league, claims that YouTube posted clips on t... |
6 June 2007
16:06 GMT |
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The Mountain View based company was recently sued by iLor, LLC, a Kentucky software company that claim Google infringed their patent entitled "method for adding a user selectable function to a hyperlink." As Google Watch reported, the patent was granted on April 17, the same day the lawsuit was filed, a coincidence ... |
20 April 2007
04:09 GMT |
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Google Video, the service that was almost abandoned by the parent company, allows users to view, upload and share clips with other members of the community. Although the product is meant to show only small videos or homemade content, Google Video is now offering full-length movies straight from the online interface.... |
19 April 2007
05:27 GMT |
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Although it might sound a little impossible for a 15-year-old boy to manage to convince YouTube that he represents Australian Broadcasting Corporation and forced them to remove 200 clips from the page, the Google product was recently involved in a funny case. It seems like the West Australian boy wrote a subpoena, ac... |
16 April 2007
03:44 GMT |
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If you didn't know, Google has an interesting motto: "Don't be evil". Since the debut of the company, Google tried to promote a calm atmosphere for every of its products but, only one of them infringes it. YouTube is the only service owned by Google that created a lot of trouble for the parent company, brin... |
12 April 2007
10:30 GMT |
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Daniela Cicarelli, Viacom, Thailand, Turkey and Brazil are only some of the persons, companies or countries that sued or banned YouTube in the past. Why? Because the service was often accused for copyright infringement after its users uploaded videos without authorization. Today, I'll add another name on the lis... |
29 March 2007
08:51 GMT |
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At this time, YouTube is surely the single service that is continuously present in the court because Google is really assaulted with a huge number of copyright complaints. Today, new accusations for copyright infringement are launched against the video service after YouTube published numerous videos from the Cricket ... |
27 March 2007
09:30 GMT |
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Let met tell you the short story so far and then I'll present you the opinion of Viacom concerning the lawsuit against YouTube. Some time ago, Viacom demanded YouTube to remove almost 100.000 clips from the page because the company receives praises and money for the content offered by other publishers. Viacom, t... |
27 March 2007
04:18 GMT |
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Oh my God, I admit that YouTube is continuously infringing the copyrights, but this is already too much! It seems like a new organization is looking to sue the company after they published videos without authorization. Same reason, same complaints, different actors. Mashable reports that British boxing entrepreneur R... |
26 March 2007
09:15 GMT |
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YouTube, the video service owned by Google, recorded one more market hit today after a Brazilian court ordered the company to remove all the videos from the "Pele Forever" film, Journal Peru reported. Pele Eterno, the original title of the film, is a movie that contains an impressive number of goals scored by the foo... |
15 March 2007
11:46 GMT |
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The short story: journalist Shi Tao from Hong Kong received a 10 year in prison sentence after he was found guilty for stealing and publishing some state secrets. It seems like the Chinese reporter from Dangdai Shangbao or Contemporary Business Newspaper leaked an important memo concerning the media restrictions and ... |
15 March 2007
06:41 GMT |
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Viacom, the owner of Comedy Central and MTV, announced today that it filed a lawsuit against the online video service YouTube for copyright infringement. The company sustained YouTube used its content without authorization and is now requiring $1 billion in damages. Viacom filed the lawsuit at the U.S. District Court... |
13 March 2007
10:19 GMT |
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The two Internet giants, the software and the search one, are challenging one another with many products such as search technologies and Office suites. Although it might look like a fair competition, Microsoft is now preparing a harsh attack against Google. Tom Rubin, associate general counsel for the software giant,... |
6 March 2007
03:43 GMT |
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Yahoo and Google are probably the most sued companies on the Internet because they are continuously attacked for copyright infringement and use of the content without authorization. This time it's Yahoo's turn, the giant portal being sued by an Ohio woman for using her photograph without approval. She susta... |
2 March 2007
05:25 GMT |
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