Tech Law

Intel has fired back against Advanced Micro Devices, filing court motions to throw out or limit AMD's antitrust suit against its larger rival. Intel argues in court filings that the case does not belong in U.S. District Court in Delaware because AMD contends that Intel's alleged antitrust behavior h...

Less than two months after settling its longstanding legal battle with NTP for more than US$600 million, BlackBerry e-mail reader maker Research In Motion has been slapped with another patent infringement action, this time from rival Visto. Like NTP, Visto is seeking an injunction that could force t...

The Bush Administration is seeking to intervene in a class action suit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T. The suit concerns the telecom's collaboration with the National Security Agency in carrying out its once-secret surveillance of communications within the U.S. by peop...

The Bush Administration is seeking to intervene in a class action suit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T. The suit concerns the telecom's collaboration with the National Security Agency in carrying out its once-secret surveillance of communications within the U.S. by peop...

The Bush Administration is seeking to intervene in a class action suit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T. The suit concerns the telecom's collaboration with the National Security Agency in carrying out its once-secret surveillance of communications within the U.S. by peop...

Two of the biggest-selling rock bands of the 1970s have filed suit against their onetime label saying the royalties reaching them from digitally downloaded versions of their songs are too low. The Allman Brothers Band and Cheap Trick filed suit against Sony BMG in U.S. District Court in New York, cl...

A coalition of both right- and left-wing groups called on Congress Monday to "save" the Internet by requiring network neutrality through law. "Whenever you see people on the far left and far right joining together about something Congress is getting ready to do, it's been my experience that what Con...

Microsoft came out swinging Monday, telling a European court that regulators made "serious errors" of judgment when they found the software maker guilty of antitrust behavior more than two years ago -- among them forcing it to produce a version of Windows that consumers don't want. Attorneys for Mic...

Apple v. Does -- a case with broad implications for bloggers and journalists and their right to protect the confidentiality of their sources -- began on Thursday before a San Jose, Calif., appeals court. Apple Computer has sued several unnamed individuals, called "Does," for allegedly leaking inform...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of a lawsuit filed by Reverend Jerry Falwell that touched upon issues key to business concerns, such as commercial versus noncommercial speech, and addressed a concept described as "initial interest confusion." At least, those topics are indicat...

Advanced Micro Devices is asking Microsoft to turn over some internal records and preserve others as the number two PC chipmaker prepares for its civil antitrust suit against market leader Intel. AMD is asking Microsoft for documents relating to internal discussions about AMD and its financial viabi...

Cell phone technology maker Qualcomm has agreed to pay a US$1.8 million fine to settle allegations that it began controlling business decisions at merger partner Flarion Technologies before antitrust regulators cleared the purchase. Qualcomm, best known for developing the Code Division Multiple Acce...

Digital video recorder maker TiVo has won a jury verdict finding that rival EchoStar has been infringing on a "time warping" patent that is at the core of the DVR technology. A jury in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas found EchoStar has "willfully" infringed on TiVo's patent, set...

Continuing its epic battle against the European Union's antitrust arm, Microsoft plans to argue in court that regulators overstepped their boundaries and violated international law. They did so, the U.S.-based company charges, by imposing sanctions that require it to share its technology with rivals...

Microsoft is reviewing a lawsuit filed against it by Lucent Technologies. The suit alleges that Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console contains technology that infringes on a Lucent patent. Lucent filed the suit in the U.S. District Court in San Diego on March 28. The company is seeking an injuncti...