Over the summer, Facebook unveiled its Libra cryptocurrency and the Calibra subsidiary that would help manage it. Facebook also unveiled a logo for Calibra and, well, it looks somewhat similar to the logo of Current, a startup bank. Apparently, Current agreed, so much so that it has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, alleging trademark infringement. […]
from the upside-is-no-one-will-be-suing-Twitter-over-this-attorney’s-veiled-threat dept The Herrick v. Grindr case [um] ground to a halt on October 7th, as the Supreme Court refused to grant cert. The lawsuit — and its attempt to undermine Section 230 immunity — is dead, relegated to the pile of also-rans which have attempted to get a US court to rewrite
from the ill-communication dept You’ll of course recall that wireless carriers are in the midst of a massive, ongoing scandal involving your location data. As in, they’ve been repeatedly caught collecting and selling your daily movement habits to a rotating crop of random nitwits, including stalkers and folks pretending to be law enforcement. And while
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Handsfree headphone maker Pinn claims that AirPods knowingly infringe multiple patents do with operation, recharging in a case, use of a smart phone, and how they connect to a host device. Pinn, Inc’s wireless headphones (Source: Pinn) Pinn, a manufacturer of a clip-on wireless headphone unit, has filed a lawsuit against Apple in the US
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At some point (probably soon after you launch your blog) you’ll want to start using images. You probably already have some of your own images you can use: a photo of yourself for your About page, or a photo of your workspace, home, garden, or whatever’s relevant for your blog. But when it comes to
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Washington has filed a lawsuit against Facebook and Google over their inability to show their records on who purchased political ads on the platform. The two companies were reportedly paid millions for political ads but have failed in publishing key information, like the advertiser’s address, that’s required by law. Washington legislation mandates that advertisers collate
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You may have heard: A Southwest Airlines passenger is suing Southwest for landing at the wrong airport. It’s the kind of case we talked about back in law school, and I was intrigued enough to dig up the court complaint down in Missouri. I’ve included it at the bottom of this story. But I think the
James Damore, the former Google engineer who was fired in 2016 after releasing a manifesto that questioned the benefits of diversity programs, has filed a discrimination lawsuit against Google. Damore also discussed his belief that Google is politically biased in the manifesto saying, “At Google, we talk so much about unconscious bias as it applies
Prager University, a nonprofit that posts online educational videos, has sued Google for allegedly discriminating against conservative videos on YouTube. “Google/YouTube regulate and censor speech as if the laws governing free speech and commerce do not apply to it,” the school asserts in its complaint. “Defendants believe that they have unfettered, unbridled, and unrestricted power
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