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 [...]
Motorola sues Michael Fenger over his iPhone assignment
Motorola has filed a lawsuit against former employee Michael Fenger for moving to Apple breaking their non-compete agreement.
Motorola claims that Fenger took a job with Apple on their iPhone project less than a month after leaving the company.
The company also claims that he threatened them to reveal its [...]
eBay gets legal relief in Tiffany lawsuit
eBay has managed to prove in court that Tiffany & Co was at fault for not participating in their program that helped the brand owners to prevent fraud on their ecommerce network.
Tiffany had claimed that eBay allowed sellers to offer and sell fake Tiffany products on their network thereby [...]
eBay told to pay fines of 40 million Euros for fake goods sold online
A French court has now ordered the online shopping giant eBay to pay Euro 40 million in damages to luxury goods group LVMH.
eBay was found guilty of allowing sellers on their services to sell fake copies of the company’s products.
LVMH had claimed [...]
MasterCard to settle lawsuit with American Express
MasterCard has announced that they are now going to settle their lawsuit with American Express.
The world’s second-largest credit-card network would be paying American Express up to $1.8 billion to settle this lawsuit.
The lawsuit claimed that MasterCard and Visa forced banks to not issue credit cards from the rival company.
MasterCard [...]
Asustek Computer files a patent infringement lawsuit against IBM
Asustek Computer has sued IBM with a patent infringement lawsuit.
They are claiming that IBM infringes on two of their owned patents.
Incidentally, this lawsuit comes after IBM sued Asustek with similar patent infringement claims.
The latest lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the [...]
Alcatel-Lucent: Microsoft told to pay big fines in patent infringement case
Software giant Microsoft has been told by the courts to pay Alcatel-Lucent $368 million as part of patent infringement fines.
Microsoft was found guilty of infringing two of their owned patents related to touchscreen form entry and use of a stylus on computers.
Alcatel-Lucent had originally [...]
