Following other states in the US, New York is looking to ban direct auto sales in the state, which would prevent Tesla from selling their cars directly in yet another region in the US. It seems New York lawmakers are attempting to quietly get the bill passed through without a lot of attention, but Tesla
It’s been a year since UK officials re-opened the privacy case involving Google and its Street View mapping feature, and the Information Commissioner’s Office is letting Google off unscathed as long as they delete any remaining data within the next 35 days. Failing to do so could result in legal action on Google. Google’s Street
Apple has prophesied an “chilling effect” on digital media negotiations should it be castigated over iBooks pricing allegations, though the DoJ has dismissed the claims as egotistical. Speaking during closing statements at the New York trial in which Apple is accused of conspiring with publishers to force up the prices of ebooks, Apple lead attorney
Apple has bested Samsung in a Japanese courtroom, convincing the Tokyo District Court that its South Korean rival’s Galaxy devices infringe the so-called “bounce back” patent used in iPhone scrolling. The ruling, which comes even though in the US the patent has actually been invalidated, could leave Samsung open to more financial damages, Reuters reports,
A Tokyo court has ruled that Samsung infringed Apple’s patent for "bounce-back" at the ends of pages scrolling screens—which disagrees with the US Patent and Trademark office’s call that the patent is invalid.
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Back in September, we reported that one of The Pirate Bay’s founders, Gottrid Svartholm Warg, had been sent to Sweden by Cambodia, where he was arrested at his apartment. The issue resulted from a sentence in 2009, which was appealed and reduced to a few months and a multi-million fine. Today he received a jail
Skype allegedly developed a clandestine program dubbed Project Chass that investigated potential ways to increase government and law enforcement access to its VoIP calling service, years in advance of Microsoft’s acquisition in 2011. Project Chess was formed while Skype had “sometimes contentious talks with the government over legal issues,” insiders tell the NYTimes, with knowledge
The UK’s head of public prosecutions has issued new guidelines for cases involving social media, a contentious area which has seen users of Twitter, Facebook, and other networks prosecuted for offensive or threatening messages in the past years. The new guidelines, Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer QC says, aim to cut the threat of
An earlier report revealed that President Obama has decided to announce several executive actions that would help fight against patent trolls and reduce the number of patent troll cases seen in the courts, and now it looks like the Federal […]
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