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Article | 6/02/2013 ITC targets August for end to Apple-Samsung patent investigation
The U.S. International Trade Commission aims to wrap up its investigation into a patent battle between Apple and Samsung by August this year, it said ...
Article | 5/02/2013 Google cleared by Australia's High Court in deceptive AdWords case
The High Court cleared Google on Wednesday of violating fair trade law by allowing companies to publish advertisements containing their competitors' n...
Article | 1/02/2013 Oracle loses appeal of ruling in Hewlett-Packard suit
A court has rejected Oracle's appeal of a judge's ruling in the lawsuit Hewlett-Packard brought over Oracle's decision to stop porting its software to...
Article | 31/01/2013 Valve sued in Germany over game ownership
The Federation of German Consumer Organizations (VZVB) has sued computer game distributor Valve because it prohibits Steam-gamers from reselling their...
Article | 29/01/2013 Puerto Rican government agency claims Infor's negligence cost it $9 million
Infor is being sued by a Puerto Rican tax authority on grounds that its failure to maintain software used by the organization racked up US$9 million i...
Article | 24/01/2013 Having an Internet connection is crucial to everyday life, German federal court says
Internet access is as crucial to everyday life as having a phone connection and the loss of connectivity is deserving of financial compensation, the G...
Article | 23/01/2013 Steve Jobs threatened Palm with patent suit if it objected to no-poaching pact
Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs threatened Palm with a patent lawsuit if it did not enter into an agreement in which the companies pledged not to hire emp...
Article | 18/01/2013 Lands' End, software vendor at contract impasse after 20-year relationship
Lands' End is at legal loggerheads with its longtime payroll software vendor over how much longer the clothier can lawfully use the application, with ...
Article | 16/01/2013 Judge orders Apple, Amazon to settlement talks on App Store dispute
A federal judge in California has ordered Apple and Amazon.com to sit down and attempt to settle a lawsuit between them over Amazon's use of the "Apps...
Article | 15/01/2013 Apple sued in Belgium over guarantee misconduct
Belgian consumer organization Test-Aankoop has sued Apple, accusing the company of violating Belgian guarantee law.
Article | 11/01/2013 Marin County settles legal claims against Deloitte, SAP over software project
A long-running legal dispute between Marin County, California, Deloitte Consulting and SAP over a troubled software project has concluded in a legal s...
Article | 8/01/2013 Facebook faces minimal penalties for flouting German law
Facebook only risks a fine of €20,000 (US$26,000) if it loses a dispute over its real name policy in Germany, but will be hurt more by bad publicity g...
Article | 7/01/2013 Customer sues Salesforce.com over support service
Salesforce.com is being sued by a customer who claims the CRM (customer relationship management) software vendor's misrepresentations made their relat...
Article | 3/01/2013 Microsoft, Accenture joint venture Avanade sued over alleged ERP project failure
A half-million lines of custom code wasn't enough to produce a viable Dynamics AX ERP (enterprise resource planning) system for point-of-sale and RFID...
Article | 3/01/2013 Amazon notches partial win over Apple in trademark lawsuit
A U.S. federal judge ruled Wednesday that Amazon.com did not mislead consumers by calling its own applications marketplace the "Appstore," a name that...