Judge Says Craigslist Can't Just Dilute eBay Off Its Board, But Can Keep eBay...
We were pretty skeptical two plus years ago when the details came out concerning the lawsuit between eBay and Craigslist over Craigslist's decision to exclude an eBay representative from its board to...
View ArticleAppeals Court Destroys First Sale; You Don't Own Your Software Anymore
Earlier this year, we noted that the 9th Circuit appeals court was facing three separate important cases about the "first sale doctrine." We also warned that the 9th Circuit can be wacky at times, and...
View ArticleDistrict Court Smacks Down Tiffany (Yet Again) In Fight With eBay Over...
Back in April, we noted the latest in the rather long saga of Tiffany's legal fight against eBay. Tiffany had sued eBay, claiming that the online auction site was legally responsible for policing the...
View ArticleNearly Every Company That Hates Google Piles On To Rosetta Stone Case
For many, many years, we've covered the long list of cases involving some company suing Google because someone else bought an AdWords ad based on a keyword that the plaintiff had the trademark on. As...
View ArticleGibson Sues Everyone Over Paper Jamz Paper Guitars, Specifically Goes After eBay
Eric Goldman points us to the news that the (notoriously litigious) Gibson guitar company is suing a whole bunch of companies for selling the new "Paper Jamz" paper multi-touch guitars. If you haven't...
View ArticleSupreme Court Also Won't Hear Tiffany's Claim Against eBay
We already noted that the Supreme Court has refused to hear Whitney Harper's innocent infringer case, but in a bit of better news, the Supreme Court has also decided not to hear Tiffany's appeal...
View ArticlePaul Allen's First Attempt At Patent Trolling Flops As He Forgets To Say Who...
A lot of folks were pretty surprised back in August when Paul Allen jumped into the patent trolling game, using patents from his failed-over-a-decade-ago research firm, Interval Research, to sue...
View ArticleeBay Shutting Down Rubik's Cube Knockoff Sales Due To Patent Infringement...
Bram Cohen, who's known for doing quite a bit of 3-dimensional puzzle design, alerts us to the news of eBay shutting down a bunch of auctions over some Dayan Guhong and Lingyun puzzles. The Dayan...
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Apple Has eBay Kill Off Auctions Of Steve Jobs Figure It Doesn't Like
Remember, a few weeks back, how Apple went after a Chinese company making Steve Jobs figurines and forced it to stop selling them? As you might expect, the attention from the legal threat only served...
View ArticlePaul Allen Files Amended Patent Lawsuit; Shows It's Even More Ridiculous Than...
Back in August, many people were surprised that Paul Allen had suddenly decided to go full on patent troll, using a bunch of patents he had received as part of his complete business failure, Interval...
View ArticleClass Action Lawsuit Filed Against Coach Over Bogus Takedowns, Trademark...
We've seen so many cases of trademark bullying, and it's so rare to see people fight back, that it's interesting to see it happening -- and even more surprising to see it done as a class action suit....
View ArticlePhone That Can Search The Internet & Display Ads Patented; Everyone Sued
Looks like it may be time to update our patent thicket graphic. Another company that's not actually doing anything in the space is suing everyone who is. A company named H-W Technology apparently...
View ArticleHow Many Times Will Skype Be Acquired For Too Much Money By Big Tech...
You may recall, back in 2005, that the tech world let out a massive "Huh? when eBay acquired Skype for somewhere around $2.6 billion. eBay kept insisting there were synergies there, and lots of people...
View ArticlePayPal Sues Google Over Mobile Payment Execs; Where's The Line Between...
On the day Google announced its big mobile payment system, PayPal announced that it's suing Google and two former PayPal execs who went to Google and were apparently heavily involved in this effort....
View ArticleEU Court Disagrees With Pretty Much Every Other Court; Says Ebay May Be...
The luxury goods folks have been on the legal warpath against Ebay for a while, because they don't like the fact that anyone else can make a market for their product, other than "authorized"...
View ArticleMonster Cable Claims EBay, Craigslist, Costco & Sears Are 'Rogue Sites'
When we talk about how dangerous PROTECT IP is as a censorship bill, we're often told that we shouldn't worry so much, because it's only targeted at "rogue sites" and thus wouldn't impact any...
View ArticleThe Coming Fight Over Sales Tax For Online Retailers
For years, we've written about the back and forth in various attempts by states to force Amazon to collect sales tax for purchases in states where it doesn't have a presence (or, well, claims it...
View ArticleFacebook, Twitter, eBay & Other Big Internet Companies Come Out Against SOPA
While Google has been pretty vocal about its complaints concerning PROTECT IP and SOPA, and Yahoo, LinkedIn and Zynga have expressed concerns elsewhere, the silence of large companies like Facebook,...
View ArticleClass Action Lawsuit Filed Against eBay Because Of The Way Its Auctions Work
It seems you can find people to file a class action lawsuit against just about any crazy thing these days. The latest, as pointed out by Eric Goldman (with the complaint embedded below), is someone...
View ArticleWaPo's Kaplan Scolded For Demanding $300 From Student Trying To Sell One Of...
A recent NY Times article about the changes happening at the Washington Post noted that, for years, the company was boosted by its subsidiary, Kaplan, famous for its test preparation offerings....
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