Tech Law

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear an argument in the Quanta v. LG Electronics case. The issues involve some interesting patent doctrines and their interplay with technologies of today. The case involves LG licensing some chipset patents to Intel with some express contractual provisions -- in...

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating Intel for possible illegal business practices meant to keep rival AMD at bay -- the latest development in an ongoing antitrust entanglement for the leading chipmaker. Cuomo's office has issued a "wide-ranging" subpoena to California-based Intel...

The bizarre and controversial case of a Missouri teenager who killed herself after being bullied through MySpace, allegedly by the parent of a peer, has reportedly shifted to California, where the social networking site is based. A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has issued a subpoena to MySpace, ...

Financial services organizations that are unable to update and enforce internal policies and controls in line with regulatory change are exposing themselves to the risk of censure, investigation, loss of professional reputation and severe legal repercussions. To understand why, it's first essential ...

The Federal Communications Commission will investigate claims made late last year that Comcast blocked customers from using file-sharing services, specifically BitTorrent. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin made the announcement at the Consumer Electronics Show currently underway in Las Vegas. The move came ...

A Michigan grand jury has indicted the man widely know as the "Spam King" and 10 others in connection with an alleged stock fraud scheme that used bulk e-mails to pump up the prices of stocks. The biggest name among those indicted is that of 52-year-old Alan Ralsky, who earned the nickname of "Spam ...

The Recording Industry Association of America has dumped a load of mud into the already murky waters surrounding the personal use of copyrighted music. The trade group, which represents the U.S. recording industry, is taking legal action against Jeffrey Howell of Scottsdale, Ariz., for allegedly sha...

Qualcomm began the new year by scrambling to deal with an old problem. The mobile chip maker will appeal a judge's injunction barring it from selling products found to infringe on patents held by rival Broadcom. Qualcomm intends to push hard to finalize development of work-around alternatives to the...

Google received an early holiday present from federal regulators Thursday, as the Federal Trade Commission granted a wish the search giant has had on its list since April -- approval to complete its purchase of interactive advertising agency DoubleClick. The Federal Trade Commission approved the dea...

Facebook has named three individuals and a Canadian porn company as defendants in a federal lawsuit it filed earlier this year in the Northern District of California, which accused unnamed people and companies of unlawfully accessing its servers. After two Canadian Internet service providers provide...

Possibly causing worldwide feelings of deja vu, Opera Software has filed a complaint with the European Commission that says the bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system amounts to unfair monopolization. Opera, based in Norway, developed and distributes the Opera Web browser. I...

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday rushed through a bill that puts increased responsibility on the shoulders of Internet service providers to police the Internet for child pornography. H.R. 3791, also known as the SAFE Act, requires that anyone providing Internet access -- apparently inc...

The Department of Justice is siding with the RIAA, saying the $222,000 in penalties levied against a file-sharer after a rare jury trial is not unduly excessive. Jammie Thomas, who became a celebrity for refusing to settle with the RIAA after being sued for posting music on Kazaa, was found to have ...

The price tag on the largest database breach on record moved higher Friday with TJX agreeing to pay nearly $41 million to settle with credit card companies and banks that were forced to issue new cards to customers of the retailer to prevent or recover fraudulent charges. TJX said it would pay $40.9

The president of South Korea will appoint an independent investigator to explore allegations that electronics and industrial giant Samsung Group had diverted money into a secret fund that was later used to bribe government officials. South Korea President Roh Moo-hyun announced in a televised news c...