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…
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A 1961 Illinois eavesdropping law "likely violates the First Amendment's free speech-speech and free-press guarantees," a federal appeals court ruled. The 69-page decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit blocks enforcement of an Illinois criminal law that made it a felony to make audio recordings of…
Well, it hasn’t been a good week for the reputation of the legal profession. By now, you’ve heard that the 9th Circuit ruled on Padilla v. Yoo, finding that plaintiffs do not have a cause of action against the former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. Yoo for injuries suffered…
Zynga, the online game maker of multimillion-dollar blockbuster games like FarmVille, Mafia Wars, and Words with Friends, sued French gaming company Kobojo today for trademark infringement over the company's Pyramidville game (see it below). At issue are Zynga's trademark claims to all games ending with ville, the French word for…
Facebook filed its Amended S-1 Registration Statement (read it below) with the SEC today, a little more than two weeks before the social media company's IPO. The company, whose NASDAQ ticker symbol will be 'FB' estimates "the initial public offering price will be between $28.00 and $35.00 per share." That…
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…
A class-action lawsuit against Apple (read it below) accuses the tech giant of double billing customers for downloads made from the company's iTunes Store. The lawsuit filed by New York resident Robert Herskowitz alleges that Apple charged him twice for purchasing a single pop song, "Whataya Want from Me?" (Note: if you're…
"Trust me, my pungent friend. You'll get what's coming to you!" Disney's new copyright infringement lawsuit against an alleged eBay purveyor of counterfeit movies appears to be dispensing advice from Aladdin's Jafar. According to the lawsuit (read it below), Atlanta resident Michael Jones has allegedly been selling 'obviously counterfeit' Disney…
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…