News tagged with district court

No truce in Apple-Samsung patent war

Two days of court-directed peace talks between the chiefs of iPhone-maker Apple and smartphone giant Samsung ended with no sign of a truce in the legal battle headed for court in Silicon Valley.

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Judge scolds attorneys in Oracle vs. Google patent trial

The judge presiding over a patent trial pitting Oracle against Google scolded rival attorneys on Monday as deliberating jurors grappled with subtleties of references in computer software code.

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created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Judge directs truce talks in Apple-Samsung patent fight

The chiefs of iPhone-maker Apple and smartphone giant Samsung were to be in patent war truce talks on Monday at the direction of a judge who asked them sidestep a court battle.

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created May 21, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Aereo wins partial victory in broadcasters' suit

(AP) -- Aereo, a startup that takes live TV broadcasts and sends them to mobile devices in New York for a monthly fee, has won a partial victory in court over the media companies that are suing it.

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created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google wants Oracle copyright trial rematch

Google on Wednesday confirmed that it wants a new trial on the copyright portion of a legal battle being fought with Oracle in San Francisco federal court.

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created May 09, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Google violated copyright, but no damages: jury

A jury ruled Monday that Google violated copyrights owned by Oracle Corp. for the Android mobile platform, but failed to agree on whether damages should be awarded in the high-profile trial.

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created May 07, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 3

US class-action ebook price-fixing suit can proceed

A judge Tuesday allowed a class-action case to proceed against Apple and six publishing houses alleging a price-fixing scheme for electronic books, citing "ample" indications of a conspiracy.

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Google mulls Japan court order to tweak auto-complete (Update)

Google said Monday it was reviewing a Japanese court order to modify its auto-complete feature to safeguard the reputation of a man who complained it falsely links him to crimes.

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created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Mobile phone giant Nokia sues Apple over iPhone

Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, took on the iconic iPhone on Thursday by suing US rival Apple for infringing 10 Nokia patents on mobile phone technology.

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created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Suit filed in US over Twitter feed in test case

A former blogger for a US mobile phone news site is being sued by his erstwhile employer over ownership of his Twitter feed in a social media test case for the Internet age.

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created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 3

HTC accuses Apple of patent infringement

Taiwan's HTC Corp. accused Apple of patent infringement on Tuesday in the latest salvo in an ongoing legal battle between the smartphone giants.

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created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Google, publishers near settlement in books case

Google and publishers told a US judge Thursday they are close to settling a lawsuit over the Internet giant's controversial book-scanning project.

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$1.3B award against SAP overturned in Oracle case

A federal judge on Thursday threw out a "grossly excessive" $1.3 billion verdict that Oracle won against SAP in a landmark intellectual property case, possibly setting the stage for another circus-like showdown ...

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created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

LimeWire file-sharing service shut down by US court

Popular online file-sharing service LimeWire was shut down by a US federal court on Tuesday following a lawsuit filed by the music industry.

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created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Oracle targets Larry Page in Google patent lawsuit

Oracle is asking a US judge to order Google co-founder Larry Page to undergo questioning in a patent suit pitting the business software titan against the Internet giant.

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created Jul 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1