Today U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie Foschio warned that the court is "more than suspicio[us] that" plaintiff Paul Ceglia" filed no less than five (5) motions against Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in his lawsuit claiming a fifty-percent (50%) ownership of the company, "solely to unreasonably and vexatiously multiply the proceedings."…
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Google and AOL were sued for patent infringement Thursday by New Jersey-based Suffolk Technologies, LLC over their Internet search summary descriptions, or 'snippets.' Suffolk's lawsuit also alleges that AOL and Google are infringing a second patent for an "Internet server and method of controlling an internet server". The second claim…
Judges know fair use and parody when they see it. Especially when it comes to South Park's "distinct animation style and scatological humor" as seen through the eyes of a 4th grade character. That was the conclusion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Circuit today (read…
Days after Cisco sued TiVo in Silicon Valley federal court for a declaratory judgment over four patents, the maker of "God's Machine" fired back with its own lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas, accusing Cisco of infringing the very same TiVo patents in dispute. One of the patents being…
Facebook faces a lawsuit by new shareholders in the social networking company, filed less than a week after its IPO. The shareholders allege that Facebook misled them by filing untrue statements in legal filings with the S.E.C., failed to prevent such statements from being misleading, and did not properly prepare…
That didn't take long. A class action lawsuit was filed yesterday against NASDAQ by an individual investor accusing the stock exchange of botching his Facebook stock (FB) orders on the day of the IPO. Plaintiff Phillip Goldberg alleges that he "placed purchase and cancellation orders for Facebook’s stock that NASDAQ…
Facebook's IPO on Friday brought with it problems for NASDAQ. The exchange's CEO Robert Greifeld acknowledged that NASDAQ had a host of trading glitches on the day of the IPO, including a foul-up with the trading system's ability to handle order cancellations. Now, NASDAQ's admission of its Facebook faux pas…
A new class-action lawsuit accuses Apple of raining on iCloud users' service, charging that the company's promise that "migrating from MobileMe to iCould would be 'effortless' was one of many "misrepresentations" to consumers. The lawsuit alleges that Apple duped MobileMe customers into believing that they would get a newer, improved…
STMicroelectronics, a Swiss maker of Micro-Electric-Mechanical Systems ('MEMS') for accelerometers and gyroscopes in consumer products like iPads and iPhones filed a patent infringement lawsuit today against competitor InvenSense, Inc. ST's lawsuit alleges that Sunnyvale, California-based InvenSense is infringing nine (9) of the company's patents being used in consumer electronic devices…
A new patent infringement lawsuit accuses Apple, Electronic Arts, Target, Whole Foods, and other companies of violating a U.S. patent "for selectively rotating windows on a computer display." The lawsuit by Rotatable Technologies, LLC, a non-practicing entity (NPE), alleges that Apple iPhones and iPads violate U.S. Patent No. 6,326,978 for…