Archive for the 'Lawsuit' Category

Aerosmith’s Tyler sues over blog impersonations

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler sued unknown bloggers who the singer said impersonated him on the Web, writing about the death of his mother and other “intimate details” from his life. LOS ANGELES–Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler on Wednesday sued unknown bloggers who the singer said impersonated him on the Web,…
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0 comments | Aerosmith, Steven Tyler, blogs, Blog, legal, Internet, Lawsuit, Blogging, Reuters |

Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that…
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0 comments | GameSpot, Tom Magrino, Hasbro Inc., Scrabulous, Hasbro, Business Operations, Research & Development, Personal Technology, Facebook, Lawsuit, Intellectual Property, Games |

SCO chief testifies: ‘Linux is a copy of Unix’

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Open-source fans have dismissed Darl McBride’s court comments in the lawsuit brought against SCO by Novell Troubled software maker SCO’s chief executive has claimed the Linux operating system includes Unix source code, during a court case in which Novell is suing SCO for royalties on Unix. …
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0 comments | SCO Group Inc., Court Case, Novell, SCO, Novell Inc., Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk, Open source, Linux, UNIX, Lawsuit |

Microsoft accused of patent violation in China

Friday, January 18th, 2008

A small Chinese high-tech firm is suing the software giant, alleging it filched technology that lets Net users type Chinese characters. A small Chinese high-tech firm is suing Microsoft because it says the software giant has stolen its creation that allows Internet users to type Chinese characters,…
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0 comments meister | Intellectual Property, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Research & Development, Business Operations, Zhongyi Electronic, Lawsuit, CNET Networks Inc., Software, Internet, Microsoft Corp., Corporate & legal, Reuters |