A federal court dismissed Apple's fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) patent licensing claims against Motorola Mobility, Inc. this morning. The case was dismissed 'with prejudice,' legalese that means Apple's claims that the court threw out cannot be raised a second time in a different lawsuit. A once sentence transcript of…
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This past weekend, I attended the Black Tie Dinner in Dallas, Texas. The annual dinner is the nation’s single largest fundraiser for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. As a former summer intern for Lambda Legal—the nation’s oldest and largest national legal organization working to safeguard and advance the…
After three years, language-learning software company Rosetta Stone settled its trademark lawsuit against Google over the company's Adwords advertising program. (read the settlement below). The litigation rollercoastered during that time. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted Google's motion to dismiss Rosetta Stone's lawsuit on August…
Serv. Emps. Int’l Union Local 1 v. Husted, US 6th Cir. (10/31/12) Election Law The Sixth Circuit granted Ohio a stay of the district court’s October 26 order granting a preliminary injunction that requires the state to count provisional ballots cast in the wrong polling place due to poll-worker error…
A snippy apology is apparently not what the judges involved in Apple's U.K. patent litigation over Samsung tablets ordered, according to testy statements made at a U.K. Court of Appeal hearing today. Judge Robin Jacob court told Apple and Samsung lawyers this morning that the iPad maker had 24 hours to…
Last week, on October 26, Kickflip, Inc. (doing business as, and hereinafter referred to as, Gambit) filed a lawsuit against Facebook, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, alleging violations of federal antitrust laws. According to its complaint, Gambit was “a leading virtual-currency and payment-processing provider”…
On Monday, Apple filed an Ex parte application for discovery against Motorola Mobility ('Motorola') to defend against the Google subsidiary's patent claims in Germany. Motorola's claims allege that Apple's iPhone and iPad wireless devices infringe two of the company's European patents. One central Apple legal defense to Motorola's European patent…
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United States v. White, US 7th Cir. (10/26/12) Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law White created a website to advance white supremacy and included a statement that “everyone associated with the Matt Hale trial has deserved assassination for a long time.” The site also included information related to the foreperson…
Yesterday, WhitServe LLC filed a lawsuit against Apple alleging infringement of a patent WhitServe owns. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, the lawsuit The patent, U.S. Patent No. 7,921,139, is described as a “System for sequentially opening and displaying files in a directory.” Invented by…