In a ruling this week, a German federal court said Google must restrict information in its autocomplete when it violates personal rights. In April, a Japanese court fined Google $3,100 for autocomplete suggestions that reportedly linked an innocent...
Google Video trial to continue to Italian supreme court – PCWorldProsecutor claims three Google execs should be held accountable for a posted video that showed a handicapped student being bullied. Google gets consumer service ultimatum from German...
Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube has handed Viacom yet another loss in the latest round of a copyright infringement court case that has lasted six years – so far –according to the Hollywood Reporter.
A Japanese court has fined Google $3,100 for the uncensored results shown in its autocomplete feature that linked an innocent man to crime, AFP reported. A Japanese man.who remains anonymous, complained to the Tokyo District Court after he...
The Australian High Court’s ruling overturns a Federal Court ruling from last April, which found Google guilty of engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct in four cases between 2005 and 2008 – based on a prior court decision that found a...
District Court Judge William Alsup said Google "failed to comply" with his order of August 7 in the firm's patent litigation with enterprise database and applications vendor Oracle. The Court is concerned that the parties and/or counsel herein may...
In a court filing, originally posted by Wired, the search giant asked that Oracle pay costs including printing and copy fees, compensation for expert appointments and filing fees for both printed and electronic excerpts over the course of the case.
But the court rejected Oracle's other claims, most notably whether Google had copied 37 of Java's application programming interfaces. By agreeing to settle for zero damages, Oracle looks to be tying up loose ends so that it can launch an appeal...
A Swiss court has relaxed the privacy and anonymization requirements being placed on Google's Street View service in the country. The ruling overturns a previous decree which required all images be anonymized throughout the service.
A U.S.federal court jury ruled that the company did not infringe on Oracle patents with its use of Java components in its Android platform. The ruling brings an end to second phase in the two companies' ongoing battle over the use of Java code in...
The Federal Appeals Court has upheld the National Security Agency's decision not to release information confirming or denying if they have a relationship with Google. Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia.
Google has moved that its patent infringement case with Oracle be declared a mistrial following only partial findings of infringement from a San Francisco court. According to early reports from the court, Google attorneys intend to file a motion...
In the 2010 ruling, the court ruled that consumers were not likely to be confused. The appeals court ruling will be one to watch. Rosetta Stone’s trademark infringement lawsuit against Google, first filed in 2009 and dismissed by a Virginia court...
We conclude that the District Court correctly held that the safe harbor requires knowledge or awareness of specific infringing activity, but we vacate the order granting summary judgment because a reasonable jury could find that YouTube had actual...
A Google spokesperson said on that ruling, “We are disappointed by the Federal Court's decision that Google should be responsible for the content of four particular ads on its platform. That statement doesn’t exactly jive with Google’s position on...
The Paris court didn't agree, and apparently didn’t like that Google “ignored requests to remove the offending word,” Courthouse News Service reported. While it’s unlikely to have much impact in the U.S.search industry, Forbes noted that the ruling...
A U.S.district court in New York issued a ruling in favor of the company, ordering the defendants to pay $583 million in damages from violations of the CAN-SPAM Act, as well as $27 million in damages for trademark infringement.
Details on Google's representation in Italy, the anticipated legal battle, and court dates have yet to be released. Google will appeal the ruling as soon as January. While broadly dismissed as a ridiculous case that would almost certainly fail to...
Some feel this judge was extending well beyond his jurisdiction for a District Court ruling by handing control of hundreds of sites (owned by webmasters across the globe) and a chunk of the Google index (property of a California-based business...
The Irish court has since been evaluating the merits of the case. The Irish High Court was to determine if the case was worthy of being pursued in commercial court on November 21. It may be that Google conducted an out-of-court settlement, but...
