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Texas Woman Fined $830,000 for Selling Counterfeit iPhone Battery Cases

iPhone accessory maker mophie was awarded an $830,000 judgment against a Texas woman who was found guilty of selling counterfeit versions of the mophie Juice Pack Plus rechargeable external battery case for iPhones. According to the court filings, Sidrah Qadeer of Spring, TX was advertising and selling counterfeit b...

31 January 2012
11:02 GMT

Italian Judge Rules in Favor of Apple in Patent Case with Samsung

The Italian news agency ANSA has revealed that Judge Marina Tavassi of Tribunale di Milano, Italy, has rejected Samsung’s request for a preliminary injunction against the sale of Apple’s iPhone 4S in the country.The decision of the Milan-based Italian first-instance court for patent cases comes as a resul...

6 January 2012
04:24 GMT

Judge: Apple 'Likely Not to Prevail' in Spat with Amazon over AppStore Name

After alleging on countless occasions that ‘App Store’ should be allowed its own trademark, Apple is now facing difficulty in convincing even the judge presiding over its case against Amazon, who uses the term to market its own digital downloads storefront.Apple sued Amazon in March claiming its newly-lau...

23 June 2011
05:00 GMT

Judge Orders Jon Gosselin to Pay $180,000

The Gosselin drama over financial matters has closed one chapter, as a judge ordered Jon to return $180,000 of the money he secretly took from the joint bank account he had set up with soon to be ex-wife Kate Gosselin and that she reportedly used to pay the bills. At the first hearing to settle the matter, the judge ...

14 October 2009
09:00 GMT

Psystar Ordered to Pay $5,000 in Attorneys' Fees

By filing a motion found to be completely baseless, Judge Alsup ordered Florida-based Mac clone maker Psystar to pay Apple $5,000 in attorneys' fees, Edible Apple reports. But even now, walking on ice that’s thinner than ever, Psystar continues to introduce new systems pre-installed with Leopard, in what l...

27 August 2009
04:20 GMT

Michael Jackson’s Mother No Longer Executor of the Estate

Katherine Jackson, Michael’s mother, has been stripped of her temporary executor of the estate title following a court hearing that took place yesterday, X17 Online informs. The co-executors of the estate are now attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain, as Michael himself expressed his desire in a...

7 July 2009
08:42 GMT

Protective Order Sought in Apple vs. Psystar Case

Apple and Psystar seek to restrict access to certain trade secrets and software code in order to avoid any information leaks as they approach the discovery process that will precede a formal trial. The material in question may consist of documents, software code, interrogatories, deposition testimony, and other infor...

2 March 2009
05:33 GMT

Psystar Gets 'First Hit' Bonus in Legal Fight with Apple

Similar to a fighting video game scenario, Psystar has won its first round in the legal battle with Apple. Inc. Psystar is now being offered the possibility to continue its countersuit against the original Mac maker. The judge allegedly hinted that others like Psystar might also be allowed to sell regular PCs with Le...

9 February 2009
05:56 GMT

Judge Rules: Apple Can't Have Papermaster

U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Karas seems to have had his final say in the Papermaster case, ruling that Apple's new VP could indeed cause "irreparable harm" to IBM, just like the Big Blue alleged when suing its ex staffer for running off to Apple.IBM sued Papermaster in October, claiming that a non-competit...

26 November 2008
10:14 GMT

Judge Dismisses Psystar's Case Against Apple

Judge William Alsup of the U.S. Federal Court for the Northern District of California dismissed Psystar's counterclaims against Apple alleging that the Cupertino-based Mac maker engages in anticompetitive practices to prevent companies from selling computers that run Mac OS X. Court documents spotted by AppleIn...

21 November 2008
05:57 GMT

Judge Orders Apple's Newly Hired VP to Cease Work

Days after it was revealed that IBM was holding a grudge against its former blade server guru, Apple issued an official announcement saying that Mark Papermaster was joining the company as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering. Soon after these events had unfolded, a federal judge ordered the former I...

10 November 2008
02:45 GMT

Apple Dismisses Psystar's 'Monopoly' Claims

Apple is not lowering its guard in the legal dispute with Miami-based Mac cloner, Psystar. A 23-page motion that dismisses Psystar’s antitrust claims has been filed by Apple, which has decided not to issue a response to the company's counterclaim.Psystar first started making profits using Apple's OS w...

2 October 2008
02:58 GMT

Apple Settles Shareholder Lawsuit

Court documents reveal that a federal judge in San Jose has given preliminary approval to a $14 million settlement of shareholder claims over backdating of stock options against several of Apple's current and former execs.According to a Reuters report, Chief Executive Steve Jobs is among the enlisted Apple high-...

11 September 2008
15:31 GMT

Heather Mills' Boobs Booed on Miss USA Pageant

Freshly divorced Heather Mills put in her first major U.S. public appearance this weekend, when she stepped onto the red carpet as part of the panel of ten judges that helped choose the winner of Donald Trump's Miss U.S.A beauty pageant. The contest took place at the Theater for the Performing Arts in the Planet...

14 April 2008
08:02 GMT

Paris Hilton Is a Bad Belly Dancer

Bad news for Americans everywhere: Paris Hilton abandoned the land of the stars and stripes and is now intent on conquering other nations and continents. The starlet is currently accompanying her new beau, Benji Madden, and his band Good Charlotte on a world tour that has already taken them to Africa. The happy duo -...

28 March 2008
06:01 GMT

Alan Ralsky and His Friends Got Indicted for Spamming

The famous spammer Alan Ralsky and 10 other persons have been finally indicted by a federal jury, in Detroit, that accused the 11-person group for spamming. Besides Alan Ralsky, his son and several Californian spammers, people from Russia, Canada, and Arizona were also involved into the case, a statement published on...

4 January 2008
13:26 GMT

TorrentSpy Loses Legal Dispute against MPAA

Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, terminated the TorrentSpy case, ruling that the BitTorrent search engine infringed the MPAA copyright. In addition, TorrentSpy was criticized for destroying evidence which could be used in court. According to MPAA, the jud...

19 December 2007
09:10 GMT

The Virtual Sex Beds Get People to Court

Although it was known that the famous Second Life has a big impact in the real life for numerous registered members, it seems like the things are going to take a crazy direction. A Second Life member, Kevin Alderman, is suing another user of the famous platform, Volkov Catteneo, for copyright infringement. Let me exp...

4 July 2007
05:50 GMT

TorrentSpy Forced to Spy Users and Offer Private Information

A federal judge demanded TorrentSpy, one of the most popular BitTorrent websites on the Internet, to provide private information about its users and present it to the authorities. Jacqueline Chooljian, the judge from the Central District of California in Los Angeles, required detailed logs to analyze the users' ...

11 June 2007
06:19 GMT

YouTube Sends Teens to Court

Two teenagers from Hastings were sent to the judge after a video showing them assaulting a third teen was posted on YouTube. It seems like the two attackers are brothers and were sent to the Hastings Youth Court for attacking a person in one of the city's parks. According to Newstalk ZB, the two brothers were re...

2 May 2007
14:56 GMT


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