Digimarc suing Shazam for patent infringement
Digimarc has announced that they have filed a lawsuit against the developers of Shazam music application for patent infringement.
Digimarc claims that Shazam is infringing on three of their owned patents.
Two of these patents are were awarded to them way back in 1995.
The patents are related to [...]
Google sued for Courgette updates for Chrome web browser
Google has been using a new technology they call Courgette for delivering smaller updates to the users of Google Chrome web browser.
Red Bend is a mobile software developer which has now filed a lawsuit against the search engine giant claiming that Courgette infringes on their [...]
Power.com lawsuit against Facebook rejected
Facebook has won a battle against Power.com.
A Northern California District Court judge threw out the counter lawsuit filed by Power.com which had claimed that Facebook was withholding user data to prevent third party services from connecting to their network.
Power.com is a web based service that enables a user to [...]
WhoGlue sues Facebook for patent violation
WhoGlue has launched a lawsuit against Facebook for patent infringement.
The company claims that Facebook is in violation of a patent they own related to social networking communications.
This lawsuit has been filed in the Delaware federal court.
WhoGlue CEO Jason Hardebeck recently wrote in a blog post about this patent:
“Recently, [...]
Elaine Scott sues Scribd for copyright infringement
While Google faces massive protests for their book indexing program… Scribd is facing legal issues of their own.
American author Elaine Scott has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Scribd.
Scott claims in his lawsuit that Scribd “shamelessly profits from the stolen copyrighted works of innumerable authors”.
Scribd claims [...]
Microsoft suing scareware developers
US based software giant Microsoft is now taking the legal route to take on developers of scareware applications.
The company has filed lawsuits against five companies which they claim indulge in such practices.
These five companies are: DirectAd Solutions, Soft Solutions, qiweroqw.com, ote2008.info and ITmeter.
Microsoft claims in their lawsuits that [...]
Skype founders suing eBay
The original founders of the VoIP Company Skype have filed a lawsuit against the Skype’s current parent company eBay along with the people who are interested in acquiring it. The other parties include Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Index Ventures.
The company claims damages that are growing [...]
Microsoft can sell Word in the US market after all
Microsoft has finally won an approval from the courts to continue selling their Microsoft Word application in the US market.
This ruling has been given by the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit.
Microsoft has been given this approval as they continue to appeal another [...]
Mininova ordered to clean up all pirated content from its site
Mininova is one of the most popular torrent search engines on the web.
The service has just lost a major lawsuit in the Utrecht District Court.
The court has ordered the service to remove all pirated media content from the network within a period of [...]
Rosemary Port to sue Google for revealing her identity
Rosemary Port was recently revealed as the blogger behind the Skanks in NYC blog which made news after Google was forced by the courts to release the detail of the person operating it.
Port has now announced her decision to sue the search engine giant. Manhattan Supreme [...]
