Yahoo doesn't like Facebook anymore. The search engine has defriended the social networking giant and threatened to sue over patents that Facebook has been using without paying the necessary licensing fees. Yahoo set a precedent for internet company patent claims after successfully suing Google in 2004.
The legal battle over the right's the spoof the young pop star Justin Bieber is just heating up. RC3, a company that develops game for Android Smartphones, has preemptively counter-sued Justin Bieber after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the pop star's lawyers two weeks ago demanding that they take their Bieber parody game, Joustin Beaver, of the Android app market, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Proview has stated that it has amended its California lawsuit to include accusations that Apple has committed fraud and unfair competition.
Yahoo has demanded licensing fees from Facebook for use of its technology, the companies said on Monday, potentially engulfing social media in the patent battles and lawsuits raging across much of the tech sector.
Yang Long-san, Apple's nemesis in a battle over the iPad trademark in China, once strutted the expo halls with dreams of market dominance. His company, Proview, may now be in ruins and his most valuable asset a disputed trademark, but those dreams remain intact.
Live Mas is Taco Bell's new catchphrase, and though the chain says it has been implemented to introduce a new approach to eating, it is also a response to a number of scandals that have plagued the chain in the past year.
March 7 is the expected date for iPad 3 to be unveiled by Apple at a press conference in San Francisco. However, the debut date is in danger of getting delayed because Apple is locked in a dispute with Proview, a Chinese firm, over iPad trademark rights, in the U.S.
Proview Electronics, the firm trying to stop Apple Inc from using the iPad name in China, has a plausible claim over the unusual methods Apple used to conceal its identity when attempting to acquire Proview's trademarks, according to several legal experts.
Shepard Fairey, who created the iconic Hope poster during President Barack Obama's 2008 primary campaign, pled guilty to creating false documents and deleting evidence in his legal fight with The Associated Press.
Whitney Houston's alleged open casket photo, which was published on the front cover of the National Enquirer, has stirred controversy over the past few days as more and more people voice outrage over the sensationalism and disrespect exhibited by the tabloid. Now, Cissy Houston is reportedly requesting a lie detector test be given to those who attended the private viewing the Friday before Houston's funeral -- including the Whigham Funeral Home staff.
President Barack Obama may have tweaked a policy that will let religiously-affiliated employers avoid offering insurance plans that cover birth control, but seven Republican state attorneys general are fighting the proposed rule on First Amendment grounds.
Religious organizations, particularly the Catholic Church, argue universal healthcare access is a fundamental human right.
The Asian firm Proview trying to stop Apple Inc from using the iPad name has now launched an attack on the consumer electronics giant's home turf, filing a lawsuit in California that accuses the iPhone-maker of employing deception when it bought the iPad trademark.
The Asian firm trying to stop Apple Inc from using the iPad name has now launched an attack on the consumer electronics giant's home turf, filing a lawsuit in California that accuses the iPhone-maker of employing deception when it bought the iPad trademark.
Seven states, Catholic groups and individuals Thursday filed the first major lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's new contraceptive regulations, arguing that the policy violated the constitutional rights to religious freedom.
Facebook admitted to tracking users who weren't even on the Web site last September, and a Baltimore based law firm has now filed a class action lawsuit in a Northern California District court. It's not the first lawsuit filed against Facebook over privacy concerns, but it's the first nationwide class action suit that potentially involves anyone who was a member before Facebook changed their privacy policy. The thrust of the lawsuit filed by Murphy PA, Peter G. Angelos and Gerard Gibbs ...
Former NBA star Michael Jordan filed a lawsuit against a Chinese sportswear company, claiming the brand was built off of unauthorized use of his name.
The Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, a school founded by the tennis legend in Las Vegas, has been accused of racism by a fired teacher.
Six years after the controversial incident in which former Playboy Playmate Stephanie Adams was brutally handled by NYPD for allegedly threatening a cab driver with a gun, a Manhattan jury awarded Adams $1.2 million for the injuries she incurred during her scuffle with the police.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit against the chairman and the former Chief Executive Officer of Puda Coal Inc alleging them of defrauding investors by selling stakes in the firm which they had turned into an empty shell company.
Of all the issues likely to surface at Wednesday night's Republican debate in Arizona, immigration is a fairly safe bet. That's because Arizona has come to embody the GOP's approach to immigration, in 2010 passing a controversial immigration law that became the model for similar bills passed by Republican-controlled legislatures in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Utah.
Cherie Blair, the wife of former English Prime Minister Tony Blair, files a lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers Ltd. in relation to the phone hacking scandal that rocked his media empire.
