A company holding a patent for a "Safe Transaction Guaranty" on e-commerce Web sites sued Google, alleging patent infringement. buySAFE, Inc. contends (read the lawsuit below) that Google's new Trusted Stores program violates its patent for third-party certification and transactional guarantees for Internet retailers.
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A federal indictment unsealed today alleges that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a Connecticut resident who "was affiliated with Anonymous" brought down KISS band member Gene Simmons' web site last year. The felony charges allege that Poe and other unnamed co-conspirators used an open source software program to send…
Tensions could reach a new high point today in the Facebook ownership claim lawsuit between plaintiff, convicted felon Paul Cegilia (inset), and Defendants Facebook and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. A court hearing today in Buffalo, New York is scheduled to consider no less than eight (8) motions with roughly eighty (80) pleadings…
There's a bitter legal feud in the Wild Yonder out West. The trademark fighter pilot litigators at two telecoms are fueling their IP jets, checking their legal payloads, and heading for a showdown over the clear blue skies of eastern California and northern Nevada. Carlsbad, California-based ViaSat®, owner of Yonder…
An interesting copyright suit has come across the wires: Astrolable, Inc. v. Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert. The complaint alleges that Defendants infringed on the Plaintiff’s copyright assignment to historical time zone information with their Timezone (tz or zoneinfo) database. The Timezone database, also called the Olson Database, is…
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected California company Grant Media's recent trademark application for the phrase 'Casey Anthony.' Yes, that Casey Anthony: the Florida mother whom a jury acquitted of murdering her young daughter Caylee Anthony. The trial received an enormous amount of media attention on the Web, television,…