Articles about Lawsuit

11:45 am EDT October 7, 2008 - Developments in Universal City Studios Productions LLP v. RealNetworks Inc. published online yesterday reveal that Real made its RealDVD product unavailable over the weekend because of a temporary restraining order issued by District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel.

The text of the filing begins: "Defendants have already caused significant irreparable harm to Real by prevailing upon this court to institute a temporary halt to sales of RealDVD since the evening of October 3, 2008..."

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Although the jury (and judge) might still be out on a later class action suit targeting Apple's newer iPhone 3G, a US judge has now ruled that Apple did not engage in "deceptive" practices concerning the original iPhone.

With a class action action around Apple's newer iPhone 3G still pending, a US judge has now thrown out a different lawsuit that had charged Apple with engaging in deception around batteries in the original iPhone.

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There's been no dispute that the National Security Agency cooperated with AT&T in a surveillance operation from its West Coast office. But its legal basis has been a Presidential order, and a new lawsuit questions whether that is enough.

In a lawsuit that would most likely convene after President Bush has left office next year, a number of AT&T phone and Internet customers have sued the President personally, along with the National Security Agency and members of the President's intelligence community since 2001. Citing evidence brought to light last year by former AT&T network technician Mark Klein, the suit alleges that AT&T was ordered by the President to cooperate with the NSA in illegal warrantless surveillance operations, in what has often been described as "the secret room on Folsom Street" in San Francisco.

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Graphics company Nvidia is making a swift cut to its workforce, laying off 6.5% of its international staff starting immediately, and ending with the closeout of 2009's third fiscal quarter.

It's been a rough summer for Nvidia. While engaged in a price war with rival AMD, the news came out that several previous generation GPUs were failing at abnormally high rates in the field due to a weak die and material set. The cost of replacement and repairs set the company back at least $200 million and its stock value took a sharp 22% drop.

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In the latest of a barrage of lawsuits against various and sundry operators of "automated and network-automated databases," Web development company GraphOn is now hauling Google into court on allegations of patent infringement.

In a complaint filed in US District Court in Texas, GraphOn is charging that Google's Base, YouTube, Blogger, Sites, and AdWords services violate a total of four patents the company now owns.

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After convicted software pirate Jeremiah Mondello pulled a 48-month federal prison stretch on Wednesday, an industry anti-piracy group announced six more lawsuits against individual piracy suspects -- also reportedly hinting that eBay could be the next one to get hauled into court.

"Mondello is a whiz-kid who used his smarts and savvy to rip off software makers and consumers. We are fortunate that he has been stopped, but there are hundreds more like him running illegal operations on eBay and other sites," according to Keith Kupferschmid, SVP of intellectal property policy and enforcement for the Software Industry Information Association (SIAA).

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After failing to work out a deal for selling TomorrowNow, SAP has now decided to shut down its acquired customer support division, embattled for more than a year now by a lawsuit charging that TormorrowNow employees hacked Oracle's Web site and improperly downloaded documents, posing as Oracle customers.

The European software giant today announced plans to wind down TormorrowNow's operations by October 31, after officials said last November that selling off TormorrowNow was SAP's top choice among "several options being weighed."

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Is it the duty of a CEO to make sure his company's shareholders can make a big short-term gain, even if it means the loss of the company in the long term? A Delaware court will decide that question when it hears Yahoo shareholders' case.

A class-action suit against Yahoo filed last February 21 in Delaware, originally on behalf of shareholders of retirement funds for Detroit city workers and law enforcement personnel, could pick up added class members as a result of last weekend's Yahoo and Microsoft merger talk failure. Attorneys on behalf of the shareholders are confirming today that they're pressing ahead with plans to hold Yahoo's chief executives and board of directors liable for failing to enter into a deal that would likely have maximized their share value.

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Yesterday, a class action suit four years in the making was certified against Verizon Wireless over the company's unfair early termination fees.

A trial date has not yet been set, but Eugene I. Farber, the senior arbitrator/mediator for the American Arbitration Association in White Plains, NY, has certified the 70 million former Verizon Wireless subscribers as a class entitled to engage in litigation against the cellular provider.

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The Software Freedom Law Center has sued Verizon on behalf of the developers of BusyBox, saying the routers for its high-speed service infringe on the General Public License.

UPDATED The group is asking for an injunction preventing the sale of the Actiontec MI424WR wireless router, as well as unspecified damages and court costs.

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Despite its continuing legal troubles, Vonage was still able to add new customers and is on the verge of settling a suit brought against it by AT&T.

The two sides have agreed to terms in principle that have Vonage pay AT&T $39 million over five years to settle all claims. Both sides will dismiss any legal actions outstanding.

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After the close of business Friday, the SCO Group -- which was recently found not to own the UNIX trademark after all -- announced it would be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

In a prepared statement, SCO President and CEO Darl McBride said, "We want to assure our customers and partners that they can continue to rely on SCO products, support and services for their business critical operations. Chapter 11 reorganization provides the Company with an opportunity to protect its assets during this time while focusing on building our future plans."

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Adware company Zango has voluntarily withdrawn its lawsuit against security software company PC Tools, which Zango accused of illegally removing its software from users' PCs without their express permission. The move follows a court's refusal to grant Zango a temporary restraining order.

The company had asked a court to prevent PC Tools' Spyware Doctor software from detecting and classifying Zango as potentially harmful, but a judge ruled it was "unlikely that the Plaintiff will be able to prove that the Defendant's software was unfair or deceptive."

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Members of the National Music Publishers Association said Tuesday that they planned to join a lawsuit against YouTube over copyright infringement, signaling more legal trouble for Google's video site.

The original lawsuit was filed by British Soccer organization Premier League in May, and sought class-action status. Since then, music publisher Bourne has joined, and Robert Tur, owner of the Los Angeles News Service also plans to join the suit shortly.

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An Xbox 360 user in Fort Lauderdale, Florida has filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft for damage done by the console to individual game discs. His lawyer has stated that his client wants all his damaged games replaced or equal monetary compensation for them.

The individual's claim is that the laser used to read the discs causes permanent damage to them, and that the documentation included with the system does not advise against moving the Xbox 360 while it is turned on.

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