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Napster gets temporary reprieve
News A federal appeals court on Wednesday issued a short reprieve for Napster, saying the company can temporarily restart its song-swapping service online. The appeals court released a terse note Wednesday saying that last week's ruling, made by federal...
[July 19, 2001, 10:58]
Kazaa loses court battle
News Justice Murray Wilcox of Australia's Federal Court ruled largely in favour of music labels, including Universal, Sony, Warner and Festival Mushroom, which had argued that the Kazaa software - owned by Australian-based Sharman Networks - was used...
[September 5, 2005, 15:55]
Australia sets date for Google keyword case
News The Australian Federal Court has set a hearing date for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's allegations against Google of misleading and deceptive conduct. Last Friday, Justice James Allsop set a hearing date of 23 June for the...
[November 19, 2007, 11:17]
Computer Associates set to appear in court
News Computers Associates International is facing arraignment in federal court on Wednesday on criminal charges stemming from a two-year investigation into the software company's accounting practices. Judge Leo Glasser is presiding over both the...
[September 22, 2004, 14:00]
Broadcom chalks up win in Qualcomm patent feud
News On Wednesday, a US federal appeals court affirmed that Qualcomm is infringing on two mobile-phone patents. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that Qualcomm was not infringing on one of the three patents in question.
[September 25, 2008, 12:09]
Windows code seller pleads guilty
News A Connecticut man has pleaded guilty in a US federal court to selling Microsoft source code over the Internet. William P Genovese Jr, 28, of Meriden, Connecticut, entered his plea on Monday in a Manhattan federal court to charges that he unlawfully...
[August 31, 2005, 9:55]
Sony continues the fight for regional coding
News The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has stepped into a Federal Court case to challenge the international agreement on regional coding of DVDs. The commission this morning announced it was intervening as 'a friend of the court' in an...
[February 8, 2002, 10:07]
Microsoft to pick up half of state's legal tab
News I am pleased that Microsoft will pay for the costs associated with this antitrust action and look forward to upcoming arguments in federal appeals court," Reilly said in a statement. A federal judge has ordered Microsoft to pay nearly $1m in legal...
[September 23, 2003, 10:35]
Court rejects Microsoft bid for delay
News A federal appeals court on Friday delivered Microsoft a blow in its antitrust battle with the government, denying a request that could have indefinitely delayed further proceedings in the case. The order, issued by the US Court of Appeals for the...
[August 17, 2001, 16:58]
Sharman continues file-sharing evidence fight
News Sharman Networks and the Music Industry Piracy Investigation (MIPI) will be back in the Australian Federal court later this week for yet another legal contest over access to evidence that was confiscated in raids last February.
[May 12, 2004, 10:50]
Yahoo! says France can't police auctions
News filed for a declaratory judgement in a US federal court Thursday morning to show that the French government has no jurisdiction over the company's operations. filed for the declaratory judgement in the federal district court in San Jose, California...
[December 22, 2000, 9:00]
Chief executives called in Intel-Intergraph case
News A federal court has asked the chief executive officers of Intergraph and Intel to appear in court in an effort to resolve the remaining issues in a patent infringement case. Intergraph originally filed suit in an Alabama federal court in November...
[September 20, 2002, 7:48]
Naughton jury: Cops 'screwed up'
News Former Infoseek executive Patrick Naughton was handcuffed and led to jail after he was convicted of possessing child pornography in federal court here Thursday morning. However, prosecutor Patricia Donahue said child pornography was considered a...
[December 17, 1999, 8:42]
Psystar's antitrust suit against Apple rejected
News Judge William Alsup of the US Federal Court for the Northern District of California rejected Psystar's argument that Apple uses anticompetitive practices to prevent companies from selling computers that run Mac OS X, according to court documents...
[November 19, 2008, 8:16]
Court rules in favour of ICANN
News In a ruling released Thursday, a federal court in Los Angeles dismissed charges filed by two domain name registrars that alleged the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had engaged in anticompetitive practices.
[November 17, 2003, 11:10]
Microsoft not off the hook yet
News As expected, a federal appeals court has said it will consider whether a settlement inked between Microsoft, the US Department of Justice and some state attorneys general was consistent with the public interest.
[March 27, 2003, 16:52]
A Year Ago: Naughton back in court Monday
News Former Infoseek executive Patrick Naughton heads back to federal court in Los Angeles Monday, where he's scheduled to be sentenced on charges of traveling across state lines with the intent of having sex with a minor.
[June 4, 2001, 6:28]
DVD-copying case heads for court
News The latest major clash between technology and copyright owners heads to US federal court on Thursday, where software start-up 321 Studios hopes to win a reprieve from a legal attack by film companies on its DVD-copying software.
[May 15, 2003, 8:01]
RealNetworks files antitrust motion against MPAA
News RealNetworks has accused the major film studios of antitrust violations in documents filed on Wednesday with a federal court. In the latest filing, Real accuses the studios as well as the DVD Copy Control Association, a group dedicated to...
[May 14, 2009, 11:27]
Entertainment industry appeals file-swap ruling
News Record labels and movie studios said on Tuesday that they have appealed an April federal court ruling that held for the first time that some file-swapping software was legal. That ruling, made by a Los Angeles federal court judge, Stephen Wilson...
[August 20, 2003, 12:10]
