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Five years ago: Xerox slaps USR with patent suit
News USR said it has yet to receive the patent infringement suit and therefore declined to comment. However, a Xerox announcement has said that the suit covers the use of its Unistrokes technology in Pilot products and the separately sold Grafitti...
[April 29, 2002, 7:01]
News Burst: Another MS suit surfaces
News Three California lawyers plan to file a class action suit against Microsoft Corp. The paper said the suit will accuse the company of using its monopoly power to overcharge consumers for Windows 95 and Windows 98.
[November 22, 1999, 14:17]
Amazon, Barnes&Noble settle patent suit
News Amazon.com said on Wednesday that it has settled its long-running patent-infringement suit against Barnes&Noble.com over its 1-Click checkout system. The suit set off a firestorm of protest on the Net, with many charging that the 1-Click technology...
[March 7, 2002, 11:50]
HP criticises printer ink rival for DMCA suit
News We think it is stretching it," Jotwani said of the Lexmark suit, which was filed on 30 December against Static Control Components, a maker of remanufactured toner cartridges. A top Hewlett-Packard printer executive said that although intellectual...
[February 6, 2003, 9:52]
Google hit by GraphOn patent suit
News Software maker GraphOn has filed suit against search giant Google, alleging that Google's Base, AdWords, Blogger, Sites and YouTube services violate GraphOn's patents. The suit was filed in US District Court in the Eastern District of Texas.
[August 18, 2008, 12:34]
F5 Networks files cookie patent suit
News On Friday, Radware and NetScaler said that their products don't infringe the patent; Array Networks declined to comment until further review of the suit. F5 Networks, a maker of networking gear for big Web sites, has patented a way to improve...
[March 24, 2003, 10:30]
Nvidia in defective-chip class-action suit
News This led to "a material negative impact on the company's financial condition, financial statements and future business prospects," according to Kantrowitz, Goldhamer & Graifman, PC, the law firm that filed the suit on behalf of the plaintiffs.
[September 18, 2008, 17:31]
News Burst: Intuit Y2K suit dismissed
News The suit, filed in a California superior court, concerned Quicken 5 and 6 for Windows and versions 6 and 7 for Macintosh. Intuit said the suit was dismissed because no damages were alleged.
[September 1, 1998, 16:59]
Ex-Sun worker files discrimination suit
News The suit alleges that Sun refused to rehire any of the laid-off American workers, and that it developed a performance evaluation program that favoured the retention of H-1B visa holders in order to save money.
[March 19, 2003, 13:50]
Microsoft-TomTom suit puts open source on guard
News It is our sincere hope that Microsoft will realise that cases like these only burden the software industry and do not serve their customers' best interests," he wrote in a blog post entitled Note on Microsoft TomTom Suit: Calm Down, Hope for the...
[February 27, 2009, 10:00]
Microsoft answers cheerleader suit
News Boathouse Row, a California.based seller of official American National Football League cheerleader posters and calendars, and its founder, Sean Patrick Dunn, allege in the suit that within 30 days of joining the LinkExchange network, banner ads...
[August 4, 1999, 9:42]
Microsoft wins antitrust suit
News A federal judge has thrown out an antitrust suit brought against Microsoft by the founder of the now-defunct pen-computing company Go Computing, the software giant said on Friday. Frederick Motz granted Microsoft's motion to dismiss Go founder S...
[July 3, 2006, 15:15]
Pornography site files suit against Google
News In that suit, Perfect 10 makes similar allegations against Amazon's A9 search engine. Adult content publisher Perfect 10 is seeking an injunction against Google to stop the search giant from allegedly displaying copyright images of its models.
[August 26, 2005, 15:10]
US Report: Remaining states stand firm on DOJ suit
News Holly Zimmer a spokesperson for the Minnesota Attorney General's office agreed that South Carolina's withdrawal has no bearing on the antitrust suit's core legal issues. Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa attorneys general said Monday that they are...
[December 8, 1998, 9:53]
Nokia files patent suit against Apple over iPhones
News The suit, filed in a US federal district court in Delaware, was announced by Nokia on Thursday. ZDNet UK was unable to get comment on the suit from Apple at the time of writing. Nokia has sued Apple over the iPhone manufacturer's use of GSM, 3G and...
[October 22, 2009, 16:11]
Microsoft suit alleges ex-worker stole trade secrets
News According to the suit, Mullor allegedly downloaded confidential documents onto his company-issued laptop at some point that were related to the subsequent patent lawsuit, and then allegedly used a file-wiping program and a 'defrag' utility...
[February 2, 2009, 16:43]
Rambus slapped with FTC antitrust suit
News The Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust suit against Rambus on Wednesday, alleging that the controversial memory-chip designer deliberately deceived the industry by not disclosing its patent plans to a standards body.
[June 20, 2002, 9:40]
Rambus files patent suit against Nvidia
News The suit was filed on Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. In a prepared statement, Rambus's head legal counsel, Tom Lavelle, said that Rambus has been attempting to get Nvidia to purchase a licence for the...
[July 11, 2008, 9:21]
Microsoft faces patent suit over update tech
News Microsoft is facing a patent-infringement suit over the technology it uses to automatically update Windows, Office and other programs. In a lawsuit filed on 20 March, BackWeb Technologies charges that Microsoft's Background Intelligent Transfer...
[March 26, 2009, 7:45]
News Burst: Novell files copyright suit
News Novell has filed suit against PMI Industries of San Diego, in the US accusing it of selling Novell NetWare upgrades as new products. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court of Southern California, also accuses PMI of selling stolen versions of other...
[August 25, 1998, 16:12]
