The film director James Cameron has reportedly been sued again over allegations that he stole the original idea for his hit 2009 movie Avatar. Bryant Moore, a science fiction screenwriter, is claiming that Cameron based Avatar on two of his own scripts, for projects entitled Descendants: The Pollination and Aquatica. He pointed out that there …
The telecommunications company BT has become the latest in a long line of companies to file a patent infringement lawsuit against Google over its highly successful Android operating system. In the lawsuit, filed in Delaware, in the US, BT is claiming that the mobile platform infringes on a number of patents relating to BT’s work …
The stuffed animal company Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc. has been ordered to hand over a total of $600,000 in fines after it was found that a number of its toy bear beach chairs were defective and could be dangerous to children. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Overland-based company was fined for knowing …
A number of batches of iPhone and iPod battery packs sold by the US retailer Best Buy and manufactured by Mophie have been recalled over fears that they are faulty and could be dangerous to users. Both parties have issued separate product recall notices on the US Consumer Product Safety Commission website warning that as …
Motorola Mobility has triumphed in its lawsuit against Apple, after claiming that the company had failed to license one of its wireless intellectual properties. A court in Germany has now ruled in the Android smartphone maker’s favour. The senior vice-president of Motorola Mobility, Scott Offer, welcomed the ruling, saying: “We will continue to take all …
Two firms have been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and fined a total of £100,000 after a maintenance worker died after an accident at a factory in Macclesfield. United Crane Services Ltd and Millennium Rubber International Ltd were fined after 60-year-old maintenance worker Martin Denton fell from the forks of a forklift …
A class action lawsuit has reportedly been filed against the Californian health company known as Sutter Health after personal information relating to millions of patients went missing. The lawsuit, which was filed in Sacramento Superior Court by representatives of some of the US citizens affected by the data breach, accuses Sutter Health of negligence in …
Actress Eva Longoria, best known for her role on the hit US TV show Desperate Housewives, is reportedly facing a public liability lawsuit after a woman allegedly slipped and injured herself at the Las Vegas restaurant Longoria owns. According to the lawsuit, which has been filed at L.A. County Superior Court, Luiza Boyadijan claims she …
A company which made Power Balance bracelets and claimed that they had “performance-enhancing” qualities for athletes has reportedly been forced to pay $57 million to settle a class action lawsuit from disgruntled customers. Power Balance, a company based in California, has sold more than 3 million of the rubber bracelets, which it claimed were inspired …