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IE8 Address Bar 'Nag' - another MS 'tie-in', another law-suit.
Talkback IE8 Address bar, the features mentioned regarding web site history are only fully implemented if MS Windows Search has been installed. The 'basic' address bar has a constant 'Nag' in bold blue (which changes to bold blue underlined (as a link) when...
[March 23, 2009, 11:02]
Civil liberties group takes on DMCA
News The suit asks a federal judge to rule that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is so sweeping that it unconstitutionally interferes with researchers' ability to evaluate the effectiveness of Internet filtering software.
[July 25, 2002, 14:58]
Dell sued over fraud allegations
News The law firm behind the suit, Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, publicised it on Wednesday. The suit, filed in San Francisco County Superior Court on 14 February, seeks class action status in California and accuses Dell of "bait and...
[February 24, 2005, 13:00]
Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law
Talkback I think comparing david beckham making you a suit with linus torvalds talking about software patent law is unfair. When you want a suit, definitely you will go to your tailor or a shop. When policy makers want to do a study of a proposed law on...
[November 24, 2004, 4:32]
Lawsuits filed to block HP-EDS merger
News Utah-based Intermountain Ironworkers Trust Fund, which filed the suit through law firm Baron & Budd, has alleged that the sale is unfair on EDS shareholders. InformationWeek reported last week that an EDS shareholder has also filed a suit in...
[June 4, 2008, 8:37]
Movie studios sue DVD software firms
News The studios filed suit against Tritton Technologies, QOJ, World Reach and Proto Ventures in New York federal court, asking for unspecified damages and a court-ordered halt to the distribution of the various software packages.
[September 18, 2003, 9:55]
Company settles 'fake spyware' suit
News Filed in January, the suit accused Secure Computer of marketing software that falsely claimed PCs were infected with spyware, then enticing consumers to pay $49.95 for a program called Spyware Cleaner that claimed to remove it.
[December 5, 2006, 7:56]
Microsoft set to refund $1bn
News Townsend and Townsend and Crew, the law firm that filed the suit, described Friday's ruling as "the largest recovery of a monopoly overcharge ever achieved in the United States and the largest recovery ever achieved under the antitrust laws of...
[July 21, 2003, 7:47]
Torvalds gets legal protection force
News The Open Source Development Lab will pay its law firm to represent Linus Torvalds, the Linux operating system founder and leader who this week was subpoenaed in connection with a $3bn suit against IBM.
[November 14, 2003, 10:05]
Verizon sued over GPL breach
News The suit is the fourth that the SFLC has filed on behalf of two programmers who wrote BusyBox, a software utility package covered by the GPL. The subject of the suit is a wireless router that Verizon distributes to customers of its fibre-based...
[December 10, 2007, 10:54]
Anti-cybersquatting law faces first test
News Quokka's suit alleges use of the domain constitutes trademark infringement, which is protected under traditional US trademark law and the anti-cybersquatting act, signed into law on November 29. Quokka Sports has filed suit against two New Zealand...
[December 16, 1999, 11:43]
Microsoft sued over upgrade programme
News The suit was filed on behalf of Infraserv, an information technology company owned by Clendon Feeney, which is the law firm that filed the suit. Microsoft, though, says the programme violates no New Zealand law and is similar to programmes from...
[April 9, 2002, 9:15]
Lawsuit targets Microsoft and the DoJ
News The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) filed the suit, which largely relies on newspaper reports to support its nondisclosure allegations. But legal experts said the suit would likely have only a negligible impact on whether a federal judge...
[January 25, 2002, 9:46]
Netscape hits Microsoft with lawsuit
News Bob Lande, a professor at the University of Baltimore Law School, sees the Netscape suit as unique in some ways. Netscape Communications, a division of AOL Time Warner, filed suit against Microsoft on Tuesday claiming the software giant's business...
[January 23, 2002, 8:44]
Napster hit with lawsuit from rock group Metallica
News San Mateo, California-based Napster already is the target of a suit by the Recording Industry Association of America, which claims that Napster violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a new law that bars devices that could be used to...
[April 14, 2000, 8:27]
Investors sue Vonage over IPO
News The suit filed on Friday in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey by the Atlanta-based law firm Motley Rice asserts that the Internet telephony provider, its officers and the IPO's underwriters misled investors.
[June 5, 2006, 9:15]
Salesforce.com hit by third lawsuit
News The suit was filed on Thursday in US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina on behalf of investors who purchased shares during the company's stock launch last month. It's the third shareholder suit to target Salesforce with...
[August 2, 2004, 10:10]
Minnesota and Microsoft verge on antitrust agreement
News Microsoft on Monday reached a preliminary settlement with consumers in Minnesota to end an antitrust suit that claimed the company had overcharged for its Windows operating system and its Office application software.
[April 20, 2004, 9:20]
Microsoft's $1bn settlement with consumers
News Eighty percent of the (Windows) licenses were licensed to businesses in California," said Richard Grossman, a partner at San Francisco law firm Townsend and Townsend, which brought the suit. Legal observers had expected the California suit to be...
[January 11, 2003, 8:15]
Microsoft fails to have monopoly lawsuit dismissed
News A New York state appeals court has rejected Microsoft's attempt to throw out a class-action suit alleging deceptive and monopolistic business practices. Microsoft successfully fended off much of the Justice Department's antitrust suit with a...
[June 10, 2004, 9:15]
