The music streaming service Spotify is reportedly being sued in the US for infringing on patents owned by another company, despite launching in the States just a couple of weeks ago. Spotify, a service which allows music fans to listen to their favourite tracks online, has been widely praised for preventing copyright infringement by discouraging …
The US-based social networking company Facebook Inc. has filed a lawsuit against a total of 25 domain name holders whom it believes are infringing on its trademark. Amongst the 25 listed defendants are the owners of sites such as: • ffacebook.com • facebobk.com • facemook.com • facefook.com • facemook.com Facebook is claiming that these domain …
A former British Airways flight attendant is pursuing legal action against her employers after she suffered a head injury whilst at work. According to a report in the London Evening Standard, flight attendant Gail-Ormiston-White was aboard a flight that was delayed at Heathrow in July 2008 when the accident happened. She was in the rear …
The film studio Dreamworks Animation has triumphed in a lawsuit in which a writer alleged that studio bosses had stolen his ideas for the hit 2008 film Kung Fu Panda. Writer Terrence Dunn filed his lawsuit in 2010, two years after the animated film was released. He says that he pitched the idea for a …
The popular group-buying websites Groupon and LivingSocial are reportedly facing a lawsuit from a small firm in the US which alleges that they infringe on its patents. The lawsuit has been filed by SellerBid Inc.in the Virginia Eastern District Court, in which it is alleged that Groupon, LivingSocial, OpenTable and Buywithme all infringe on two …
The TV producer Simon Fuller is reportedly pursuing legal action against the makers of the US version of The X Factor, which includes his rival Simon Cowell, claiming that an agreement made in a previous lawsuit was not honoured. Fuller originally sued Cowell for allegedly copying the format for the hugely successful TV programme American …
The social gaming company Zynga is reportedly facing a new lawsuit from web developer SocialApps over the source code for one of its most popular games, Farmville. The California-based SocialApps claims that it had an agreement with Zynga in which the social gaming firm would have access to the source code to its Facebook game …
The organisers of a festival in the Canadian city of Ottawa are potentially facing a public liability lawsuit after a stage collapsed and at least four people were injured. A crowd of thousands were watching the band Cheap Trick perform at the Ottawa Bluesfest when the incident occurred last Sunday (17th July). There had been …
The successful shoe designer Christian Louboutin has filed a lawsuit against rival shoe maker and French fashion house YSL claiming that one of its shoe designs infringed on the Louboutin red sole trademark. Christian Louboutin trademarked for the colour red applied to the sole of a shoe in 2008, after using it on all of …