Amazon would pay $51 million to Toys R Us
US based online retailing giant Amazon has revealed that they are going to pay $51 million to Toys R Us for settling their legal disputes.
The company said in a regulatory filing that the money would be given during the third quarter.
This would help the company end [...]
Actus targets Apple and others with a patent lawsuit
Apple is target of yet another patent related lawsuit.
Actus has filed a lawsuit against Apple and several other companies claiming that they are infringing on their patented technologies.
The lawsuit was filed in May this year in the Eastern District of Texas.
In case of Apple, Actus [...]
Microsoft told to pay USD 200 million in a patent lawsuit
US based software giant Microsoft has been asked by the court to pay Canadian software firm i4i Ltd $200 million in damages for infringing a patent.
Microsoft has said that they are planning appeal this judgement.
I4I had filed the lawsuit against Microsoft in 2007 [...]
Amazon files a patent lawsuit against Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications had recently filed a lawsuit against Amazon claiming Amazon Kindle eBook reader was infringing on their patented technologies.
Amazon is now fighting back as they have now filed a similar patent related lawsuit that claims that Discovery is infringing on their patented technologies!
Amazon is claiming in their [...]
Apple, Dell, HP sued by The PACid Group
The PACid Group has filed a lawsuit against 19 companies including Apple, Atheros, Broadcom, Dell, Edimax, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lenovo, Marvell, Realtek, and Toshiba.
The lawsuit claims that these companies infringe upon their patented technologies.
The patent involved in this lawsuit is U.S. patent No. 5,963,646, “Secure deterministic [...]
Microsoft ends patent dispute with TomTom
Microsoft has announced that they are now ending their patent dispute filed against TomTom.
Microsoft said that TomTom would be paying them an undisclosed amount for this settlement.
Microsoft had filed the lawsuit against TomTom last month claiming their products were infringing on Microsoft’s owned patents.
TomTom responded with a [...]
TomTom files a patent lawsuit against Microsoft
Navigation device maker TomTom has revealed that they have filed a lawsuit against US based software giant Microsoft.
Incidentally, the two companies are already involved in a similar lawsuit filed by Microsoft sometime back.
Not many details are available on what kind of a lawsuit TomTom has filed [...]
Satyam Computer face multiple fraud related lawsuits in USA
The problems for Satyam Computer are multiplying by the day.
The latest news in the market is that the Indian IT company faces multiple lawsuits in the USA claiming that the company duped thousands of American investors out of billions of dollars.
Vianale & Vianale LLP’s counsel Keneth [...]
Wal-Mart Stores to pay big to settle 63 lawsuits
Wal-Mart Stores has announced that they are going to pay as much as $640 million to settle around 63 lawsuits filed against them related to wage-and-hour violations.
This settlement would end legal disputes which have been going on for years.
Wal-Mart said that the final amount to [...]
Sony Music Entertainment sued by U.S. Government
U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan has filed a lawsuit against music industry giant Sony Music Entertainment.
The lawsuit claims that the company is violating federal rules aimed at protecting the online privacy of children.
It said that the company is enabling minors to register on its music websites without a proper [...]
