Uber Technologies, Inc. (“UBER”) was founded in San Francisco, CA in 2008. UBER creators, Travis Kalanick and Garret Camp came up with the idea on a snowy evening in Paris in 2008. The two had trouble hailing a cap and came up with the simple idea of tapping a button on their phone in [...]
International Business Machines Corporation (commonly referred to as IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries. The company originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924. IBM Corp. filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in Manhattan federal court against a startup founded by several [...]
A 36-year-old Ryan Collins from Pennsylvania was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to hacking the Apple and Google accounts of more than 100 celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence, Aubrey Plaza, Rihanna, and Avril Lavigne. Collins stole personal information, including nude photos, from the celebrities. The photos were famously posted on 4Chan [...]
The equitable defense of laches has long been recognized as an available and effective method for precluding recovery of legal damages, and it can provide a lifeline to defendants who otherwise lack strong noninfringement or invalidity arguments. However, the availability of this defense is now in question. This November, the Supreme Court will hear [...]
If you heard the sound of groaning on Monday morning, it was probably struggling to support the immensity of the latest offering of Mr Justice Arnold, adjudicating a leviathan struggle between Idenix and Gilead. The technical field is treatments for Hepatitis C; the specific area is nucleoside analogues having alleged activity against Hepatitis C Virus [...]
Lowe’s Cos. Inc. has settled a lawsuit brought by a company that claimed the home improvement retailer sold security cameras that infringed of its patents. Iron Gate, holder of U.S. Patent No. 7,203,693, sued Lowe's in the Southern District of New York, alleging infringement. According to the patent, "none of the existing multimedia data indexing [...]
