Apple claims HTC infringes on 20 of its patents
Apple filed a patent infringement lawsuit Tuesday against HTC, claiming that the Taiwanese company is infringing 20 Apple patents.
4-year old lawsuit over backdating stock options hits the networking vendor
Juniper Networks has reportedly agreed to pay $US169 million to settle a 4-year-old lawsuit over backdating stock options, a practice that entrapped and embarrassed many high-tech firms over the past decade.
Decision ends 2006 case over WGA software sent as security update
A federal judge last week dismissed a three-year-old lawsuit that accused Microsoft of duping customers when it fed them company anti-piracy software as a critical security update, court documents show.
The suit alleges Nokia mislead investors when describing its market position
A class action complaint against Nokia alleges the company committed securities fraud when describing its operations in 2008.
The vendor alleges 'massive theft' of IP by the third-party support provider
Oracle has filed a lawsuit against third-party maintenance provider Rimini Street and its CEO Seth Ravin, alleging the parties have been engaged in "massive theft of Oracle's software and related support materials through an illegal business model," according to documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.
The complaint follows a successful one that Kodak recently won against Samsung
Kodak has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission charging Apple and Research In Motion with infringing patents in products with cameras.
Best Buy, Samsung and 12 others violate GPLv2, an open source law firm charges
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has brought a copyright lawsuit against 14 consumer electronics companies for allegedly violating GNU General Public License (GPL) in the use of GPL-licensed software in their products. Among those named in the suit are Best Buy, JVC, Western Digital Technologies and Westinghouse.
Apple accuses its rival of infringing 13 of its patents
Apple has filed a patent lawsuit accusing Nokia of infringing 13 Apple patents, in response to Nokia's patent lawsuit against Apple filed in October.
But Pacific WebWorks will face legal scrutiny after Google alleges it is complicit in work-at-home scams
Pacific WebWorks has had a very profitable year despite a raft of complaints from its customers, a class action suit filed against it in Illinois and now a civil suit from Google filed on Monday.
Pacific WebWorks used Google's brand name to push fraudulent home working schemes, Google alleges
Google filed a lawsuit Monday against a U.S. company it alleges runs work-at-home scams that unnecessarily charge people's credit cards and spoof Google's brand name.
The Palm Pre is using PDF technology without proper licensing, Artifex alleges
Artifex Software is suing Palm over the PDF (Portable Document Format) viewer in Palm's Pre smartphone, it said on Thursday.
The final hearing on the controversial settlement proposal will be in mid-February
The judge in the copyright infringement case pitting the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) against Google and its book search program has set a date for the final hearing on the parties' controversial settlement proposal.
The unusual suit surrounded a patent used in the Windows activation process
Microsoft has settled a lawsuit with a former employee that it once charged with fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract.
Under terms of the deal, Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion
Intel and Advanced Micro Devices Thursday announced that they have settled all antitrust litigation and patent cross-license disputes between the companies.
Cuomo's lawsuit targets Intel's rebate payments to computer makers
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against microprocessor maker Intel, alleging that the company engaged in a "systematic campaign" of illegal conduct to protect a monopoly.
