San Francisco: A Google engineer, testifying in a high-stakes trial pitting Oracle Corp against Google Inc, denied that he referred to Oracle or any other company when he wrote in an email that Google should take a license to use the Java programming language. The trial entered its fourth day on Thursday, with Google engineer Timothy Lindholm taking the stand to answer questions about a 2010 email that has become...
12:59 PM, Apr 20, 2012
San Francisco: Yahoo Inc sued Facebook Inc on Monday over 10 patents that include methods and systems for advertising on the Web, according to a copy of the lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in a San Jose, California federal court, marks the first major legal battle among technology giants in social media and a major escalation of patent litigation that has already swept up the smartphone and tablet sectors and high-tech...
02:39 AM, Mar 13, 2012
Berlin: A German court has dismissed patent lawsuits by technology giants Apple and Samsung against each other in the two companies' battle over the market for smartphones and tablet devices. Mannheim state court spokesman Joachim Bock said judges dismissed both cases involving alleged patent infringements of the companies' respective slide-to-lock technology on mobile devices. Samsung Electronics welcomed Friday's dismissal of Apple's case against the firm, but vowed to appeal the...
10:49 AM, Mar 03, 2012
San Francisco: A consumer watchdog group is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent Google from making sweeping changes to its privacy policies next month. The planned revisions would enable Google Inc. to bundle the personal information gathered by its Internet search engine and other services, such as Gmail, YouTube and Plus, so the company can gain a better understanding of its users and potentially sell more...
11:47 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Taipei: Taiwan computer maker Acer Inc has sued its former chief executive, Gianfranco Lanci, saying he breached a non-compete clause in an agreement covering his departure from the company in 2011. Lanci left Acer abruptly at the end of March last year after a disagreement with other board members over the strategy needed to counter the runaway success of the tablet market, which has cannibalized Acer's profits. He joined rival...
12:19 PM, Feb 08, 2012
San Francisco: In the summer of 2007, Apple's Steve Jobs received a note from then-Palm chief executive Ed Colligan, according to correspondence revealed in a lawsuit over employee poaching. "Your proposal that we agree that neither company will hire the other's employees, regardless of the individual's desires, is not only wrong, it is likely illegal," Colligan wrote to the now-deceased Apple chief. The note was made public in a court...
12:07 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Washington: Consumers in the United States and Canada have sued Research in Motion for a days-long service outage on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world earlier this month. The system-wide failure of the service had left tens of millions of frustrated BlackBerry users on five continents without email, instant messaging and browsing. Research In Motion's co-CEOs had apologised to millions of BlackBerry customers for the four-day outage that tarnished...
11:32 AM, Oct 27, 2011
New York: Law firms in the United States and Canada are exploring possible consumer lawsuits against Research In Motion Ltd for last week's BlackBerry outages, which for three days crippled email and messaging for tens of millions of users around the world. Consumer lawyers say they are looking at whether customers have common claims against the BlackBerry manufacturer and might be able to band together in a single lawsuit. While...
08:27 AM, Oct 20, 2011
San Francisco: A criminal investigation involving eBay is a "game changer" that should slow Craigslist's attempts to obtain documents and depositions in a parallel civil case, an eBay lawyer said in court. The US Department of Justice has launched a criminal probe into whether eBay employees took confidential information from classified ad website Craigslist as eBay sought to build a rival service. The two companies have also been litigating for...
02:26 PM, Sep 16, 2011
Los Angeles: Hewlett-Packard Co and top executives misled investors for months before unveiling a series of major decisions, such as the demise of the TouchPad, that hammered its shares, a shareholder alleged in a proposed class-action lawsuit filed this week. Shareholder Richard Gammel accuses the world's largest technology company of concealing the fact that its existing business model was not working and that webOS - the operating software it inherited...
01:22 PM, Sep 16, 2011
San Francisco: Dolby Laboratories says Research in Motion has agreed to license its audio technologies that were the subject of two recent lawsuits against the BlackBerry maker. As a result, Dolby Laboratories Inc. said Monday it has dropped its patent infringement lawsuits against Research In Motion Ltd. In a June 15 lawsuit, Dolby had claimed that RIM's smartphones and Playbook tablet devices use its patented digital audio compression technology without...
01:38 PM, Sep 13, 2011
Los Angeles: Lady Gaga on Friday was slapped with a lawsuit claiming her hit song 'Judas' on the new album 'Born This Way' was copied from a similar tune by a Chicago-based singer and songwriter. Rebecca Francescatti, who filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Illinois on Wednesday, alleges 'Judas' infringes upon the copyright of her song 'Juda', which she recorded in 1999. The Chicago musician claims that "substantial...
12:11 PM, Aug 07, 2011
Los Angeles: Pop superstar Lady Gaga has been sued over sales of her wristbands for Japan's earthquake relief efforts in a class action that claims that not all the proceeds went to victims as she had promised. Michigan legal network 1800LAWFIRM also alleges that Gaga and other companies involved in the sale and marketing of the $5 white and red "We Pray for Japan" wristbands overcharged buyers on shipping costs...
10:56 AM, Jun 28, 2011
Boston: A Goldman Sachs shareholder has sued the investment bank's former director Rajat Gupta over profits that were accrued as a result of insider information that the Indian-American businessman passed on to his friend hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam. The lawsuit, filed by James Mercer in Manhattan federal court, seeks to recover the "short-swing" profits that Rajaratnam and Gupta allegedly made through insider trading on Goldman shares. "Gupta was beneficial...
11:04 AM, Jun 07, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan is preparing to block a lawsuit in a US court that alleges complicity of its spy chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha in the audacious 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, on the grounds that it will pour "gasoline on the fire" of Indo-Pak relations. The country's military-run ISI has roped in American lawyers, who are moving to quash the lawsuit in a Brooklyn court by arguing that if the...
06:59 PM, May 11, 2011
New York: A senior human resources manager at Toshiba Corp has filed a $ 100 million lawsuit accusing a U.S. unit of the Japanese technology company of "systemic" gender bias against women in pay and promotions. The plaintiff, Elaine Cyphers, contends that Toshiba America Inc pays women lower salaries and bonuses than men who perform similar work. She says the company steers women into lower-grade positions, and favors men in...
11:51 AM, Feb 01, 2011
London: Soccer star David Beckham has launched a USD 25 million lawsuit against prostitute Irma Nici and the article's publisher, rubbishing claims that she slept with him at a New York hotel in 2007. Beckham insisted that he was having a late-night massage in his hotel room at the time of the alleged incident. The 35-year-old footballer has filed a five-page statement with a Californian court earlier this week, claiming...
04:39 PM, Jan 18, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday said it will challenge in court a US lawsuit accusing officials of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of providing material support for the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, Xinhua reported. "The government of Pakistan has taken a firm decision to strongly contest the suit filed against the ISI, its present and past directors general," the Pakistan foreign ministry said. The lawsuit was filed by the relatives of...
10:35 AM, Dec 31, 2010
Los Angeles: A former bodyguard has sued Britney Spears, claiming the singer subjected him to 'repeated unwanted sexual advances' and harassment. Fernando Flores filed the sexual harassment lawsuit in suburban Los Angeles on Wednesday, alleging the singer intentionally inflicted emotional distress. He is seeking unspecified damages from the Grammy Award-winner and his former employer, Advanced Security Concepts Corp. The lawsuit claims that Spears, among other things, exposed herself to Flores...
10:15 AM, Sep 09, 2010
Dubai: In an unusual legal fight, six Saudi sisters have decided to file a lawsuit against their father for repeatedly having turned down their suitors and not allowing them to get married. The women, all in their 30s, have written a letter to Sultan Bin Zahem, chairman of Saudi Arabia's Advocacy Committee, demanding that they be given the authority to get married. They allege that their father always turned down...
01:14 PM, Aug 30, 2010
