The suit, filed by an unnamed man according to the BBC, claimed defamatory autocomplete suggestions on Google.de linked him to fraud and scientology. A U.S.autocomplete suit was filed against Google last year for linking a surgeon to the term...
How to cut a vein" is the (paraphrased) title of a video that sparked a legal suit between Google, its subsidiary YouTube and Russian governing bodies. In February, Google filed an appeal in Russia to challenge the censorship of a YouTube video...
Yahoo filed suit against Facebook in March claiming that the company had based its "entire business" on 10 key patents it owned. Facebook soon fired back with a patent suit of its own, claiming that Yahoo was infringing upon patents it held in the...
In fact, it’s the second time he’s filed suit against the blogger; he lost his defamation case last year. In the 2011 defamation suit, Katz’s lawyer Todd Levine issued a stern warning to those who would consider covering the news about the case.
The suit included more than 20 complainants. The suit arrives as Facebook looks to begin life as a publicly-traded company. The lawsuit, filed in the Northern California District Court, alleged that the company knowingly infringed on user privacy...
In one example in that suit, filed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, users were led to believe by virtue of the ad title that they would be taken to the Honda.com.au website, when in fact the ad was for another website called...
Facebook has made good on its vow to fight Yahoo's patent claim by filing a counter suit also alleging patent infringement. According to the suit, Facebook said that Yahoo services, ranging from the Yahoo home page to the company's Flickr platform...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission filed suit over paid advertisements that misled consumers by showing competitors in search results for businesses. Google has lost an Australian court case on appeal after the original decision in...
Oracle filed the original suit against Google for patent infringement in August 2010 claiming that Google "knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property" and sought "appropriate remedies".
The suit, filed in a San Jose, Calif.court, accuses Facebook of infringing on Yahoo patents regarding the function of social networking sites. Yahoo has carried through on its threat to file suit against Facebook, alleging infringement of 10 of its...
The suit also alleges that the privacy policy change will "make it possible for advertisers to gain access to personal information which was previously unavailable to them. The complaint was filed today in a Washington, D.C.federal district court.
As he told the Huffington Post in an emailed statement: “Facebook decided to sue me after I myself, filed a law suit against them, in Israel. No, not that Mark Zuckerberg. The other one; the Mark Zuckerberg formerly known as Rotem Guez.
The smaller site, a digital scrapbooking service, claimed in their suit that their service would be “rolled over” and “eliminated” by Facebook’s version of Timeline. Timeline’s launch in the U.S.has been slowed by a September lawsuit against...
The suit is detailed covering items like the price ($150/year), the fact that ICM is the sole registry and the contract with ICANN has no price restrictions contrary to contracts done for other TLDs, and the contract is for 10 years with a...
Michael Nolan, who worked for Groupon for two years, and Brian Hanna, since January of this year, have both been named in the suit. Google has not been named in the suit. Groupon filed a civil complaint October 24 in an Illinois court accusing two...
After their own application to trademark “tweet” was twice rejected, Twitter filed suit against Twittad LLC in Northern California U.S. They claimed that because the word “tweet” was famous before Twittad filed their trademark application, the term...
Google had filed suit against the DOI in 2010, claiming Microsoft was unfairly awarded a $49.3 million government email contract. A number of updates on Google legal and antitrust woes cropped up this week, as the Department of Interior/Microsoft...
While the lawsuit was filed on behalf of two plaintiffs by Chicago law firm Edelson McGuire, the case is set up to become a class action suit. The suit claims that: A lawsuit filed on August 23 accuses comScore of recording private consumer...
In 2007, Google was sued by a large group of music publishers and TV/movie companies in a class action suit simultaneous to being sued by Viacom. Google has finally reached a deal with a group of music publishers who filed a class-action lawsuit in...
Google will be given a chance to respond to any evidence against them, and the probe may end without a suit ever being filed against the search giant. The FTC antitrust probe examining Google has moved past the initial stages.
