Tag archive: suit

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

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

On Thursday, lawyers representing Facebook declared that they uncovered the 'smoking gun' in the ownership lawsuit brought by Paul Ceglia. The lawsuit claims that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg gave away half of the company to Ceglia in exchange for $1,000 of seed money within a 2003 contract. In addition, Ceglia also claims the contract awards him one percent of the company for each day Facebook wasn't online after January… Read More

The patent war between Samsung and Apple took another turn this week, with Samsung dropping its patent-infringement countersuit against Apple to focus on its defense, reports Bloomberg. According to Samsung spokesman Nam Ki Yung, who spoke with Bloomberg, Samsung dropped the suit on June 30 “to streamline the legal proceedings.” Samsung will continue its patent defences in another counter-claim in a suit filed by Apple at the same… Read More

A group of bloggers has filed a class action lawsuit against the Huffington Post, its founder Arianna Huffington and its new parent company AOL, reports Fortune. The lawsuit's lead plaintiff is union organizer and journalist Jonathan Tasisi, who wrote for the Huffington Post from December 2005 until three days after AOL purchased the left-leaning news and blog site for $315 million, on February 6 of this year. Filing of the suit follows… Read More

What seemed to be a highly dubious lawsuit filed by upstate New York man Paul Ceglia in 2010, which claims that he owns at least 50 percent of Facebook, may not be so dubious, after all. In a revised complaint filed wit the US District Court in Buffalo, NY, on Monday, Ceglia has produced more than a dozen of what he claims are emails from Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in which Zuckerberg agrees to give Ceglia at least half of what… Read More

Once the anticompetitive super-villain of the technology industry, Microsoft now finds itself on the other side of the battle after the company filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google on Thursday that accuses the search giant of taking measures to push out Microsoft and other competitors in the European market. Microsoft first announced its plans to file the suit with the European Commission on Wednesday in a blog post by Microsoft senior vice… Read More

Two of car geeks' favorite things — the Tesla Motors and the BBC's wildly popular auto-enthusiast show “Top Gear” — are now in a legal battle over allegedly “false” claims made by the show in a 2008 episode. Tesla is suing the BBC for libel and malicious falsehood, saying that a “Top Gear” episode created a false portrayal of the performance of its all-electric Roadster sports car. “Top… Read More

A new suit filed against Facebook in Orange County alleges that the social networking site violated California law by reposting copyrighted images without approval, and also letting personal information of minors to be posted and shared without parental consent. The suit has been brought by three adults and two minors. In part, the suit alleges: "Facebook's interface and web site architecture causes users to believe and… Read More

MCS Music America, a copyright administration outfit that's a subsidiary of the British firm Conexion Media Group PLC has filed suit in a Tennessee court against Microsoft, Real Networks, and Yahoo, claiming the companies' streaming services provide access to tracks that the companies do not have permission to distribute. The suit seeks $150,000 for each act of infringement—meaning every time the songs are downloaded or… Read More

Last August, Apple revised the design and replaced its MagSafe adapters for consumers, and as early as October 2007 it was getting ready to bring in new 85-watt MagSafe adapters for MacBook Pros following a raft of complaints. According to AppleDefects.com, which had pictures, the adapters could get so hot that cables melted. Now it’s all culminated in a class action law suit, brought in California by Naotaka Kitagawa, Timothy… Read More

Inventor Judah Klausner—generally considered the “father of the PDA” for his work creating electronic organizers in the 1970s—has filed a new patent infringement lawsuit targeting Google, Verizon, LG, Citrix, Cox Communications, Embarq Corporation, and others for infringing on patents Klausner believes covers visual voicemail. And Klausner has some courtroom history to back him up: he went after Sprint and Apple with… Read More

Alabama resident Jessica Alena Smith has become the first to file suit against Apple for sub-standard 3G performance in its new iPhone 3G. And she's requesting her suit be granted class-action status, owing to the large number of iPhone users who are experiencing dropped calls and unreliable 3G data service from the devices. Numerous iPhone 3G owners in the U.S. and around the world claim to be experiencing dropped calls and problems… Read More

A number of the world's leading manufacturers of high-definition televisions have filed a patent suit against low-cost HDTV maker Vizio, claiming the company is violating some 15 patents key to supporting MPEG-2 video in its products. According to the complaint, both the individual companies—which include heavy hitters like Sony, Samsung, Mitsubishi, and Phiips—has pursued Vizio about licensing the patents, but the company… Read More

Perhaps it was inevitable, given the ubiquity of the iPod: Someone has designed a business suit for it.   The two-piece employs so-called“smart fabric” technology to allow controls to be built into the lapel, enabling the wearer to switch tracks on their iPods without having to go to the excruciating effort of removing thedevice from their pockets.   According to a spokesperson for the makers, the Eleksen Group, the fabric… Read More