Last week, Sprint filed several requests for the issuance of subpoenas in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The purpose of the subpoenas, according to the declarations accompanying them, is to reveal the identity of one who identifies him/herself as a 'mole' or insider in the…
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Yesterday, Santa Monica company EMG Technology, LLC filed a lawsuit against Google Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging a patent violation. According to the complaint, Google's Chrome Mobile browser infringes on United States Patent No. 7,441,196, entitled "Apparatus and Method of Manipulating a…
Several privacy lawsuits against Google, Inc. have been consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware following a ruling by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML). In In Re: Google Inc. Cookie Placement Consumer Privacy Litigation, the JPML found that "eight actions involve common questions of…
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…
Today Oracle asked U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup to sidestep whatever verdict the jury ultimately reaches in the company's Java code copyright trial against Google. Oracle alleged that Google violated copyright law by refusing to license Sun's Java software code, and allegedly incorporating copyright-protected source code into its Android…
Enough already! That's the message from Judge Richard Posner, the federal judge presiding over one of many patent feuds between Apple and Motorola Mobility. Dagnabbit, Apple, Judge Posner is fed up with your legal team's motion practice! "I've had my fill of frivolous filings by Apple," he wrote in a…
The jury in Oracle's Java code copyright lawsuit against Google began deliberating this afternoon in federal court in San Francisco, California. U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup gave the jury their final charge today: 19 pages of instructions and guidelines to use in their deliberations (read it below). Google lawyers…
The U.S. International Trade Commission ('ITC') issued a preliminary ruling today concluding that Apple iPhone and iPad wireless devices violate Motorola Mobility's U.S. Patent No. 6,246,697. Patent holder Motorola Mobility — whose acquisition by Android OS maker Google is still pending — holds this more than 10-year-old wireless method and…
A federal appeals court in New York reversed a lower court ruling in Viacom's copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube and Google over user uploads of thousands of popular TV shows like South Park and 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." "A reasonable jury could find that YouTube had actual knowledge…
The federal judge presiding over the lawsuit by plaintiff Paul Ceglia, the convicted felon claiming to own half of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, just ordered Google to divulge Ceglia's Gmail account data and logs by March 5, 2012 Ceglia’s email accounts are at the heart of this lawsuit. Some were known,…