Tag archive: lawsuit

Initially filed by the Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd law firm on behalf of investors at the City of Royal Oak Retirement System in Michigan, Netflix is now dealing with a class-action suit alleging that company officials “issued materially false and misleading statements regarding business practices and its contracts with content providers.”  Defendants specifically identified within the lawsuit include CEO Reed Hastings, chief… Read More

Things are not looking good for music streaming service Grooveshark. After getting hit with lawsuits from Universal Music, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment, EMI — the only company with whom Grooveshark actually had a licensing deal — has now filed suit against Escape Media Group, Grooveshark's parent company, claiming that Escape has failed to make a single royalty payment. While the lawsuit, filed in the New York State… Read More

When Asus announced the Eee Pad Transformer Prime in November, many saw the name as a lawsuit waiting to happen, and sure enough, Hasbro has filed a complaint with a Los Angeles court. The toy company is seeking damages and an injunction against Asus. To show just how annoyed Hasbro is they've sent a statement, rather light in punctuation, to PaidContent.org which reads: “Hasbro continues to aggressively protect its brands and… Read More

Samsung and Apple have been globally making the rounds with various lawsuits and injunctions against specific products. The two manufacturers’ various patent disputes have run the gamete, ranging from infringements over marketing materials to product sizes. But now we may have reached the final frontier of these legal entanglements: Samsung claims that Apple has violated some up-until-now unmentioned patents regarding emoticons. The manufacturer… Read More

Music streaming service Grooveshark has hit back against Universal Music Group, which filed a lawsuit Friday against the website, claiming that Grooveshark employees had uploaded more than 100,000 pirated songs to the site, reports Torrent Freak. Grooveshark says the suit is based on a “blatantly false” data and a “gross mischaracterization of information.” The Grooveshark employees named in the Universal suit include… Read More

Last week, Facebook was sued by Timelines Inc. for trademark infringement after Facebook made its announcement about the new Timeline feature for profiles. The company is arguing that Facebook's use of the Timeline name will eventually put Timelines Inc. out of business. Representatives for Timelines Inc. requested a a restraining order against the launch of Facebook Timeline in hopes that a judge would agree that the… Read More

It wasn’t long ago that we could barely keep up on the unending, daily accounts of Sony PlayStation hacks. The PSN and other Sony Web properties worldwide were subject to hackers for months, and users found themselves unable to use their subscription services as well as risking their credit card and personal data. To say Sony’s reputation was tarnished would be something of an understatement. The company did what it could to placate user… Read More

Federal prosecutors in the United States have launched a criminal probe to discover whether eBay employees, including founder and Chairman Pierre Omidyar, used confidential information from classified ads giant Craigslist in an attempt to build its competing business, reports Reuters. The probe comes after years of legal battles in civil courts between the two companies over allegations that eBay purchased a stake in Craigslist for the sole… Read More

In 2009, Hotfile provided Warner Brothers with a tool that allowed the studio to expedite the Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown procedure by allowing removal of any offending file immediately. Rather than hire a team of people to police video uploaded to Hotfile, Warner Brothers used automated crawlers to submit takedown notices based off keywords. For instance, if the program was searching for “Sherlock Holmes” to remove… Read More

As expected AT&T has officially responded to the Justice Department’s lawsuit attempting to block AT&T’s 39 Billion dollar purchase of T-Mobile. AT&T wasn’t just twiddling its thumbs for the past few days since the DoJ filed the lawsuit, AT&T was busy writing a 27 page response. Luckily for you we won’t bore you with all 27 pages of juicy drama, but please feel free to enjoy it on your own. In summary AT&T disagrees with the… Read More

Sprint announced today that it has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to block AT&T's planned acquisition of T-Mobile USA from German telecom giant Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. The suit, filed today in Washington D.C., follows an antitrust lawsuit by the US Department of Justice (DoJ), which also seeks to prevent the deal from going through. Sprint's lawsuit was filed as a related case to the DoJ's legal action, the… Read More

There's another wrinkle in the Samsung v. Apple battle that's already provided us with a whole lot of entertaining controversy. There's discussion afoot that Apple's big legal victory – getting Galaxy phones banned through the European Union for copyright infringement – may be as toothless as a twenty-year-old cat. Apple's copyright lawsuit concerned a whole mess of things, namely physical design… Read More

A Motorola Mobility shareholder has filed a lawsuit over the company's sale to Google, which was announced earlier this week, because he doesn't believe the sale price of $12.5 billion is enough, reports BusinessWeek. Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., its CEO, Sanjay Jha, the company's nine-member board of directors and Google are all listed as defendants in the lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed in Chicago on Monday, prior to… Read More

A German court has partially lifted the preliminary injunction against Samsung that prevented the South Korea-based company from legally distributing its Galaxy Tab 10.1 throughout all European Union countries, except Germany. The ban on the Galaxy Tab was first put in place earlier this month after Apple filed an lawsuit against Samsung. The move was part of the ongoing battle between the two companies over whether Samsung unlawfully copied… Read More

Here we go again: Google has reportedly decided to assist app developers faced with a patent lawsuit from Lodsys. Google, facing another affront to Android, asked the U.S. Patent Office to examine the patents involved in the suit. In May, Lodsys threatened Android and iOS developers with lawsuits over patent infringement. According to PCMag, Lodsys seems to be nothing more than a patent licensing company, and has used some of the patents in… Read More