Legal

EasyGroup Attacks Crowdsourced Delivery Startup Easybring

London-based parent of EasyJet claims the crowdsourced delivery service infringes on its trademarks

11 years ago

Google Close To Settling EU Antitrust Charges – Reports

Google is looking to end a three year EU investigation into its practices

11 years ago

Dutch Court Overturns ‘Ineffective’ Pirate Bay Ban

The 'ineffective' ban on the Pirate Bay website has been overturned by a Dutch Court

11 years ago

Bitcoin Entrepreneur Charlie Shrem Charged With Money Laundering

The co-founder of BitInstant allegedly conspired to supply Silk Road with Bitcoins

11 years ago

Technical Glitch Cripples US Federal Courts

The FBI says Friday’s downtime was caused by a technical issue, while the European Cyber Army takes credit for DDoS

11 years ago

Homeland Security Grills Google Glass-Wearing Cinema Goer

Google Glass gets anti-terror grilling over suspicions of copyright theft

11 years ago

HP Needs Six Weeks To Ponder Next Legal Move In Autonomy Saga

Legal row continues as HP is given more time to decide what to do about Autonomy accounting claims

11 years ago

Google Glass Driver Cleared By US Court

Ceclila Abadie was wearing Google Glass but there was no proof it was switched on

11 years ago

Verizon Judgement Is Just A Setback For The FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules

Verizon has beaten the FCC's Net Neutrality legislation, but Wayne Rash says the regulator can easily fix this

11 years ago

Apple And Samsung Agree To Mediation

Company CEOs to meet before upcoming US patent court clash

11 years ago

BlackBerry Sues Maker Of Physical iPhone Keyboard

Typo Products co-founder and media personality Ryan Seacrest may not have thought this one through

11 years ago

UK Company Successfully Claims Ownership Of The ‘Pinterest’ Trademark

Premium Interest registered the name long before Pinterest launched in Europe

11 years ago

Yet Another Google Antitrust Proposal Rejected By EU

There's still time to avoid multi-billion fine, says Joaquin Almunia

11 years ago

HTC One Mini Back On Sale Despite Nokia Ban

The HTC One Mini can still be sold despite using chips which infringe a Nokia patent

11 years ago

Samsung Fails To Get Older iPhones Banned In South Korea

The judge rules that two of the patents asserted by Samsung are invalid, and the third was never infringed

11 years ago

Cisco Loses Legal Challenge To Microsoft Skype Deal

Cisco loses its legal challenge over Microsoft's purchase of VoIP giant Skype, but will not appeal

11 years ago

Social Media Users Warned Over Court Case Comments

British social networking users warned by Attorney General Dominic Grieve over commenting on court cases

11 years ago

Switzerland Launches Criminal Probe Into NSA Surveillance

It sounds like the Swiss authorities want to put the American spies in prison

11 years ago

Football Referee Charged With Hacking Former Colleague’s Email

FA-registered referee and two others are charged in hacking investigation

11 years ago

Ericsson Faces Investigation In India Over Patent Row

Ericsson is accused of abusing a dominant market position in India

11 years ago

US Government Pays $50 Million Settlement For Military’s Pirated Software

For years, the US Department of Defence had used unlicensed copies of logistics software

11 years ago

Samsung Ordered To Pay Apple £179m Damages

Jury decision means that Samsung must pay Apple a total of $930 million (£574m) in damages

11 years ago

Alleged Silk Road Mastermind Is ‘Honest And Kind’, Says $1m Bail Application

Man accused of running the illegal marketplace under the alias ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’ receives a vote of confidence

11 years ago

John McAfee To Testify About The Murder That Sent Him On The Run

McAfee is back in the public eye to clear his name

11 years ago

Co-Founder Of Liberty Reserve Will Spend Up To 75 Years In Prison

Vladimir Kats pleads guilty to money laundering and unlicensed money transmitting charges

11 years ago

Nokia Seeks HTC One UK Sales Ban After Winning Patent Dispute

Nokia wants compensation and an HTC One UK sales ban after High Court rules in its favour

11 years ago

21 More Pirate Websites To Be Blocked By UK ISPs

BeeMP3, FilesTube and TorrentHound join the likes of the Pirate Bay on the copyright holders’ blacklist

11 years ago

Torrent Tracker isoHunt To Close And Settle Lawsuit For $110m

Site founder Gary Fung says he’ll be back, but the case establishes that a Torrent index infringes copyright

11 years ago