The second biggest liquid crystal display (LCD) manufacturer in Taiwan has sued Dallas-based AT&T Inc. (T) and South Korean-based Samsung Electronics Co. (SSNLF) alleging patent infringement.
AU Optronics Corp. (AUO) alleges that AT&T and Samsung disregarded intellectual property rights in flat panel display product lines...
Samsung Electronics Co. (SSNLF) is in a little more trouble with Apple Inc. (AAPL) after having a patent complaint filed by Apple amended with an extra 14 products alleging that the South Korean-based company copied, including the design of new releases of the Galaxy...
Mumbai Mirror | June 18, 2011 | Bapu Deedwania
Fifteen days ago, mobile giants Vodafone had filed a defamation notice against an irate customer, seeking to restrict him from maligning the company on the Internet and allegedly harassing their top management with his complaints about their...
Wall Street Journal | June 20, 2011 | Tess Stynes
Spansion Inc. (CODE) will receive $150 million over five years as part of a settlement of its long-running patent litigation and disputes with Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE, SSNHY).
Spansion shares were up 4.2% at $18.68 in...
Nokia Corp., once king of the handset world, has been going through a tumultuous period as of late. Stephen Elop, who took over the CEO position last year after his predecessor Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo was unceremoniously booted out for failing to maintain the Finnish manufacturer's competitive edge, has made some aggressive changes.
Apple's launch strategy for new products is an interesting phenomenon. While the details are always jealously guarded so Jobs' "one more thing" can have the maximum impact on stage, this does leave the Cupertino-based gadget giant open for other legal ramifications down the road. Case in point - the iCloud trademark, which Jobs and Co. have just been sued over.
Marbridge Consulting | June 10, 2011
A source within ZTE's (0763.HK; 000063.SZ) securities department confirmed today that the Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer has filed a patent suit against rival Huawei in Shenzhen, adding that the court has accepted the suit and has begun legal proceedings....
Economic Times | May 25, 2011 | Deepshikha Sikarwar & Joji Thomas Phillip
NEW DELHI: India has rejected the Dutch government's plea for an out-of-court settlement of Netherlands-registered Vodafone International Holdings BV's dispute involving a tax claim of over Rs 11,000 crore.
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Economic Times | May 25, 2011 | Deepshikha Sikarwar & Joji Thomas Phillip
NEW DELHI: India has rejected the Dutch government's plea for an out-of-court settlement of Netherlands-registered Vodafone International Holdings BV's dispute involving a tax claim of over Rs 11,000 crore.
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If you'll recall, a few months ago Microsoft filed a protest against Apple's ownership of the "App Store" trademark, on the grounds that the term is too generic and cannot belong to any one company. Many other companies seemingly agreed with Ballmer and Co., and the trademark was also challenges in Europe by Nokia, HTC and Sony Ericsson.
The most lambasted pair since Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, have today been denied an appeal of the ruling against them last month, which stated they could not rehear their case against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Wall Street Journal | April 29, 2011 | Evan Ramstad, Jung-Ah Lee
SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. escalated its fight with Apple Inc. over the appearance of smartphones, filing a new lawsuit in the U.S. Thursday, and introducing its second-generation Galaxy S phone in its home country...
The two founders of Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (MRVL) are suing Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), alleging that Goldman unfairly coaxed the company into selling off shares by saying that the sale was necessary to meet a margin loan.
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Eon Corp. (EONC), an Austin-based company specializing in wireless telemetry technology, including the likes of advanced meter reading, announced it has settled all lawsuits involved with Raleigh, N.C.-based Sensus USA Inc., a global provider of FlexNet-branded, tower-based, smart grid communications networks and water, gas...
Two lawsuits between United States-based Motorola Solutions Inc. and Chinese telecom provider Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. appeared to have been resolved. Motorola and Huawei issued a joint release today announcing plans to withdraw and dismiss claims against each other if ...
It seems to be a sad fact of business life that if you suddenly make a ton of money, people will crawl out of the woodwork trying to take that money away through various forms of litigation. Facebook's famously meteoric rise seems to have stirred more than its fair share of lawyered-up pretenders to the Zuckerberg crown, most notably the Winklevoss twins
The Winklevoss twins, along with Divya Narendra, portrayed in the hit film The Social Network as angry men who claim Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for the social networking monolith, were denied more compensation from the company after a...
ABC News | March 18, 2011 | AP
IBM Corp. has agreed to pay $10 million to settle allegations that it bribed South Korean and Chinese government officials for more than a decade to win contracts.
The Securities and Exchange Commission accused the technology company of...
AUSTIN-Some argue that there is little to a name, but if any of those people work in the world of the Web, they are very wrong. For companies that use either the terms “face” or “book” in a name on the...
I should have been a patent lawyer. Actually, everyone in the wireless industry should be glad I did not become a patent lawyer because there is little reason to think I would have been a good one.
Trying to piece together all of the moving...
News reaches us this afternoon of a small legal storm brewing in Europe between Japanese electronics giant Sony and even-more-giant Korean rival LG, centred around Sony's apparent use of patented Blu-Ray playback technology inside the Playstation 3.
Bangkok Post | February 24, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana
Nearly half of the board members of TOT Plc have tendered their resignations over the past two days for fear of a possible legal backlash over the state enterprise's move to demand compensation from mobile market...
Bangkok Post | February 24, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana
Nearly half of the board members of TOT Plc have tendered their resignations over the past two days for fear of a possible legal backlash over the state enterprise's move to demand compensation from mobile market...
