Lawsuit whirligig: Spansion and Kodak sue Samsung, LG sued only by Kodak (Tuesday 18th of November 2008 04:50:00 AM)
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Mark it down as a coincidence if you'd like, but a flurry of
lawsuits revolving around the same companies just became public knowledge. For starters,
Eastman Kodak has decided to sue Samsung and LG, alleging entrenchment of ...
(more)Federal Circuit Appeals Court Limits Business-Method Patents (Friday 31st of October 2008 11:15:02 AM)
Zordak writes "The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just issued its
much-anticipated opinion in In Re Bilski [PDF]. This was a re-visit of the State Street issue
of what constitutes patentable subject matter (including whether macos and craft ...
(more)Britney Spears' dad granted permanent conservatorship (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 03:45:00 PM)
Britney Spears' father Jamie Spears was granted a lasting conservatorship over her material
and pursuit affairs yesterday. The short-range conservatorship was set to expire Dec. 31, but
everyone including Britney, agreed she can't be left to her own ...
(more)Britney Spears' most pivotal career move yet: Not getting a traffic ticket (Thursday 23rd of October 2008 05:00:00 PM)
Britney Spears' traffic case that ended in a mistrial is being trumpeted by her lawyer
Michael Flanagan as a vast triumph of the human spirit, gospel to People:
"It marks a
turnaround for her. This case was a thorn in her side for more than a ...
(more)Britney Spears gets a mistrial (Tuesday 21st of October 2008 11:00:00 PM)
Britney Spears' court case for driving without a California license case has been declared a
mistrial today. After three days of deliberations, jurors couldn't reach a unanimous decision
on a verdict. Though most of them agreed the trial was a giant ...
(more)UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense (Thursday 16th of October 2008 09:45:02 PM)
Truthsearch writes "Defendants can't deny police an encryption key because of fears the data it
unlocks will incriminate them, a British appeals court has ruled. The case marked an
interesting provoke to the UK's regiment of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), ...
(more)Positive Rights News From Europe (Saturday 27th of September 2008 12:30:06 AM)
Various readers are sending in good news from Europe on the rights front. First, at the EU
level, Mark.J brings word that the latin Parliament has canned a number of polemic amendments
to its updated Telecoms Package, which could have resulted in ISPs ...
(more)San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network (Friday 12th of September 2008 09:30:01 AM)
Alphadogg writes "With costs related to a rogue network administrator's hijacking of the city's
network now estimated at $1 million, city advisers say they are sharp for a mysterious control
device hidden parts unknown* on the network. The device, referred ...
(more)Anne Hathaway's ex pleads guilty (Thursday 11th of September 2008 12:15:00 AM)
Con-man and former doer of Anne Hathaway, Raffaello Follieri pleaded guilty today to charges
of wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy. He's staring at five years in prison and likely
deportation. E! Online reports:
"I did not have investor assent ...
(more)Appeals Court Rules US Can Block Mad Cow Testing (Sunday 31st of August 2008 07:00:02 PM)
Fahrbot-bot tips a story of mad cow disease, a private meat packer that wants to test all of
its beef for the disease, and the USDA, which controls access to the test kits and just won an
appeals court ruling that the influence has the ...
(more)Hilary Duff's dad gets 10 days in jail (Thursday 28th of August 2008 06:30:00 PM)
Hilary Duff's father Bob Duff was sentenced to 10 days in jail yesteryear during a trial
over, I shit you not, who will pay for Hilary's 21st birthday. (He was sentenced for failing to
report the sale of assets, not for the altogether party.) Apparently, ...
(more)Should Companies Share Criminal Blame In ID Theft? (Tuesday 26th of August 2008 02:30:01 PM)
Snydeq writes "Deep End's Paul Venezia criticizes the lack of illegitimate charges for common
laxity in data breaches in the wake of last week's Best Western breach, which exposed the
intimate data of 8 million customers. 'The responsibilities attached ...
(more)Strong Court Ruling Upholds the Artistic License (Wednesday 13th of August 2008 10:45:01 PM)
Dilute writes "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (an authoritative court that
consistently deals with patent law), has issued a strong ruling (PDF) upholding the Artistic
License in a copyright dispute between the developers of the Java ...
(more)RIAA Foiled By "Innocent Infringement" Defense (Sunday 10th of August 2008 08:00:02 PM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In an interesting evolvement in a Texas case against a college-age
litigant who was 16 at the time of the infringement, the Judge has denied the RIAA's summary
judgment motion and ordered a trial of the damages — even ...
(more)EFF Warns That Email Privacy Is In Jeopardy (Saturday 09th of August 2008 06:45:02 PM)
MojoKid writes with this excerpt from HotHardware: "According to the e-banking Frontier hardpan
(EFF), a dangerous legal precedent has just been set that can potentially unravel existing
federal privacy protections for e-mail and national information ...
(more)USAF Violates DMCA, Escapes Unscathed (Tuesday 05th of August 2008 12:00:01 PM)
Eldavojohn recommends report at Ars on a Byzantine case just thrown out by an appeals court.
The US Air Force cracked the code that would expire a piece of software. For this they were
sued under the DMCA in Blueport v. United States. The Court ...
(more)RIAA's $222k Verdict Is Likely To Be Set Aside (Tuesday 05th of August 2008 12:00:01 PM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Apparently the RIAA's 'big gun' didn't fare so well this morning
in Duluth, when he tried to compelling the judge in Capitol v. Thomas that the part of the
Copyright Act which says 'by sale or other transmit of ownership, ...
(more)RIAA Gets Nervous, Brings In Big Gun (Saturday 02nd of August 2008 09:15:01 AM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "I guess the RIAA is getting nervous about the ability of its
'national law firm' (in charge of bringing 'ex parte' motions, securing default judgments, and
beating up grandmothers and children) to handle the oral fight specified ...
(more)Tenise Barker Takes On RIAA Damages Theory (Tuesday 29th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Tenise Barker, the young social worker from the Bronx who took on
the RIAA's 'making available' theory and won, has now launched a front
idioms:fly in the face
of to the constitutionality of the RIAA's damages theory. In her ...
(more)Software Patent Sanity on the Way? (Tuesday 29th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Ars Technica is reporting that the traditionally silent US Patent and label Office (USPTO) may
be open gate to turn things around. It seems that in recent action the USPTO has started to
make it much easier to vitiate disk operating system patents with ...
(more)Hasbro Sues Makers of Scrabble-Like Scrabulous (Friday 25th of July 2008 01:30:02 AM)
Dekortage writes "As today's lawsuit indicates, Hasbro has outwardly had enough of Scrabulous,
the online word game remarkably similar to Scrabble. Filed in New York, Hasbro's suit is
against Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, brothers from Kolkata, India, and ...
(more)Lindsay Lohan has her shit together, says judge (Wednesday 16th of July 2008 04:40:00 PM)
Lindsay Lohan is on the full-strength and narrow, incontrovertible to rule to the judge
policy-making over her probation case stemming from last year's misdemeanor charges. Nothing
like seeing a veritable booze tornado defy all odds and become a lesbian. ...
(more)Two Powerful Blows Against Air Pollution Controls (Monday 14th of July 2008 02:35:22 PM)
The NYTimes reports from state on two split
idioms:part company actions on Friday that, between
them, have halted Bush supervision clean-air initiatives in their tracks. The current direction
is no well-liked of environmental control groups, but these ...
(more)Senecas: Buffalo casino to remain open during legal fight (The Auburn Citizen) (Saturday 12th of July 2008 04:03:06 AM)
NIAGARA FALLS - The Seneca Indian Nation's mundane Buffalo casino will remain open and
illustration of a diurnal comfort will resume while a court battle over whether they are legal
wages on. Seneca commander Maurice John said Wednesday that a federal ...
(more)Superior Court 7/10/08 - COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. MICHAEL WALL (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:03:41 AM)
Appellant, Michael Wall, appeals from the judgment of sentence entered on February 11, 2005, by
the Honorable Thomas Dempsey, Court of Common Please of Philadelphia County. After careful
review, we affirm. Three state Superior Court judges have upheld ...
(more)Superior Court 7/10/08 - COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. MICHAEL WALL (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:02:33 AM)
Appellant, Michael Wall, appeals from the judgment of sentence entered on February 11, 2005, by
the Honorable Thomas Dempsey, Court of Common Please of Philadelphia County. After careful
review, we affirm. Three state Superior Court judges have upheld ...
(more)Casino denied appeal on revoked license (Moldova.org) (Tuesday 01st of July 2008 09:12:51 PM)
The state agency that denied Tropicana Casino and Resort owners a new casino license in New
Jersey was correct in doing so, a state appeals court said.In a 44-page decision, the court's
three-judge panel said the resort's track record was abysmal, the ...
(more)Rhode Island top court overturns lead paint ruling (Tuesday 01st of July 2008 07:29:49 PM)
Rhode Island's top court on Tuesday
overturned a dedicatory lower court ruling that found
three
former manufacturers of lead paint liable for creating a public
nuisance by clothes up
the health risks of lead paint.
...
(more)Anne Hathaway's ex is, legally speaking, in some deep shit (Wednesday 25th of June 2008 02:55:00 PM)
Raffaello Follieri is about to experience the sweet cock-slap of justice. After being
arrested on charges of fraud, he was placed on $21 million bail today despite prosecutors
arguing Raffaelo has the money and spell to flee the country, but his lawyer ...
(more)FCC Dealt Setback In BPL Push (Wednesday 25th of June 2008 03:25:34 PM)
SonicSpike writes in with word that an appeals court has dealt a setback to the FCC's plans to
third edition by the editors of the star-spangled banner stars and stripes heritage®
dictionary. copyright © 2003 broadband over power lines. The court ...
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