Legal

Elon Musk Gives Away All Of The Tesla Patents

CEO of Tesla Motors says the company will not sue anyone for using its proprietary technologies

10 years ago

European Court Exempts Browsing From Copyright Law

A European Court of Justice decision has affirmed that the temporary copies of content made by web browsers do not…

10 years ago

‘Guccifer’ Sentenced To Four Years In A Romanian Jail

The hacker who targeted hundreds of celebrities has been convicted

10 years ago

FCC Site Swamped Following Comedian’s Net Neutrality TV Speech

The FCC's commenting system experienced problems after a British comedian on HBO called upon Internet 'trolls' to enter the net…

10 years ago

International Police Forces Arrest 80 Members Of The BlackShades Malware Gang

UK officers make 17 arrests in the first operation of its kind

10 years ago

UK Charity Files Complaint Against GCHQ, Alleges Human Rights Violations

According to Privacy International, GCHQ’s intrusive malware operations violate articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights

10 years ago

Oracle Argues For Reinstatement Of $1.3bn SAP Fine

Oracle has argued its record-breaking damages award against SAP should be reinstated, or a retrial ordered

10 years ago

EU Court Tells Google To Abide By The ‘Right To Be Forgotten’

It looks like users from the EU will be able to edit results which come up when someone searches for…

10 years ago

Oracle Wins Round In $1bn Android Court Battle

A US federal court has ruled that Oracle's Java programming interfaces can be protected by copyright, in a blow to…

10 years ago

RightsCorp Wants To Bring Its Copyright Protection Methods To The UK

The US company is forcing ISPs to participate in the copyright crusade, but will this approach work in Europe?

10 years ago

Samsung Ordered To Pay Apple $119m In Patent Case

A US jury has awarded Apple less than 10 percent of what it had sought in the latest result of…

10 years ago

The UK Is Taking Its Courtrooms Online

Police, legal professionals and defendants will get access to new digital tools and services by 2016

10 years ago

Microsoft Shareholder Sues Company Over EU ‘Browser Choice’ Mistake

A lawsuit tries to establish who’s to blame for a “technical error” which led to a £484 million fine

10 years ago

BlackBerry Sues Top Exec To Stay At His Post

How bad are things at BlackBerry? Michelle Maisto says the case of Sebastien Marineau-Mes is not a good sign

10 years ago

Man Who ‘Sold’ Free Microsoft Products Is Given Suspended Jail Sentence

Luton resident Mohammed Khalid Jamil ran a Microsoft support scam out of a call centre in India

10 years ago

Marvell Ordered To Pay Carnegie Mellon $1.54 Billion For Storage Patent Infringement

The judge increases the fine by $366 million to penalize “egregious behaviour”

10 years ago

UK To Allow Copying Digital Media For Personal Use

The government appears to be fighting against restrictive DRM measures by relaxing copyright rules

10 years ago

Microsoft Promises To Take Legal Advice Before Reading Hotmail Accounts

New rules come after the company allegedly read the email account of an ex-employee suspected of leaking Microsoft secrets

10 years ago

Ex-Microsoft Employee Arrested, Charged With Stealing Windows Secrets

Alex Kibkalo allegedly passed on secrets concerning various Microsoft projects to an unnamed blogger

10 years ago

Russian Hacker Accused Of Raiding Swiss Banks Arrested In Bangkok

Farid ‘Diabl0’ Essebar, one of the creators of the Zotob worm, evaded the authorities for the last three years, and…

10 years ago

Toshiba And SanDisk Sue Hynix For Industrial Espionage

The engineer who leaked proprietary information is in custody

10 years ago

Federal Judge Freezes US Assets Of Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles

The head of the defunct bitcoin exchange will not be able to access his money. Oh, the irony.

10 years ago

Indian Watchdog Could Hit Google With A $5 Billion Fine

Google could be fined as much as $5 billion if an investigation by the Competition Commission of India finds it…

10 years ago

Judge Denies Apple Attempt To Ban US Samsung Phone Sales

Samsung also loses appeal against fines, will have to pay Apple $930m as ruling is upheld

10 years ago

HP Begins Autonomy Lawsuit Settlement Talks – Report

Talks are reportedly underway to settle the lawsuit from HP shareholders over its troubled acquisition of Autonomy

10 years ago

Google Lays Out Ground Rules For Glass Users

Google Glass users urged not to be ‘glassholes’ by being rude or acting oddly in public

10 years ago

Typo Products Says BlackBerry Can’t Patent Physical Keyboards

The US start-up wants to continue selling familiar-looking accessories for iPhones

10 years ago

Autonomy Hits Back At Fraud Claims, Says HP Is Dodging Taxes

HP says Autonomy lied, Autonomy says HP cheated

10 years ago

Twitter Makes Peace With IBM In Patent Deal

Twitter will buy 900 patents and sign a cross-licensing agreement with IBM following settlement of dispute

10 years ago

Google Glass Facing Driving Ban In The US

Seven states are now looking at making it illegal to use Google's wearable device whilst driving

10 years ago