The NYT is ordering Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) to “cease and desist” using the slogan “Not Just Wall Street. Every Street” in its advertisements because it claims first rights to that line, according to a copy of a letter signed by the NYTCo’s attorney that paidContent obtained. The Times’ lawyer,…

TiVo’s March court victory in its patent battle with Dish and EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) could be erased, as a federal appeals court has agreed to rehear the case. The pronouncement wasn’t unexpected. The legal fight, which has dragged on for six years, concerns whether the satellite companies infringed on TiVo’s…

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) won another court round against Dish and EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) when two members of a three-judge federal court panel sided with a lower court ruling that the satellite companies are in contempt of a permanent injunction prohibiting infringement on its DVR patents. But the fight, ongoing in…

The International Trade Commission will have first dibs on deciding whether Nokia (NYSE: NOK) or Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) are infringing on each others’ patents, a federal judge has decided. Yesterday, a Judge in Delaware agreed to put the patent claims between Apple and Nokia on hold, pending a resolution before…

While no one wants to wake up to the news that Apple—one of the most successful consumer brands—has filed a lawsuit against you, in this case, little-known HTC must have celebrated just a tiny bit. In 13 years, the Taiwanese has grown to more than 9,000 employees worldwide, including 3,000…

More legal wrangles for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) over patents as the smartphone market continues to heat up. The iPhone maker is suing rival handset maker HTC, which makes devices using both Android and Windows platforms, for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the device user interface, underlying architecture and…

A Russian search engine is going after Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and others it says are breaching its patent on a search technique. Quintura has been operating a visual search engine interface, which shows results in a relational, contextual cloud format, since 2005 and was last year awarded the latest of…

A Beijing court has cleared Chinese search giant Baidu of copyright infringement suits brought by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which represents the major record labels. The court’s judgment was simply that the search engine had not broken rules by linking to unauthorized music downloads. In the…

Six months after TiVo sued AT&T (NYSE: T) for patent infringement, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has entered the legal fray. In a filing, Microsoft asks to be a party in the suit because it says the case puts into question its Mediaroom software, which runs on set-top boxes that use AT&T’s…

This is one slugfest sure to carry on into 2010. Nokia yesterday requested an investigation against Apple with U.S. regulator the International Trade Commission. This is the biggest complaint yet in a legal dispute between the two companies, which started when the two failed to reach agreement in mobile licensing…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is countersuing Nokia (NYSE: NOK), charging the Finnish cell phone maker with infringing on 13 iPhone-related patents. About two months ago, Nokia sued Apple, accusing it of illegally using 10 Nokia-patented technology standards in the iPhone since its 2007 launch, including wireless data, speech coding, security and…

Finally got the actual lawsuit Spring Design filed in federal court against Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) over their dueling e-readers and a little time to look through it. (The full PDF is embedded after the jump.) Spring claims that it only shared certain info about its own e-reader because…

Somehow a lawsuit had to be lurking ... Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which took a spin on the floor with just about everyone before announcing its own e-reader, is being sued by Spring Design for misappropriation of trade secrets and violating a non-disclosure agreement. Cupertino-based Spring claims B&N “copied”…

You might call it a case of: “if you can’t beat ‘em, sue ‘em”. Finnish mobile giant Nokia (NYSE: NOK) filed a lawsuit against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) on Thursday on grounds that the iPhone maker has used Nokia’s mobile technology without permission. The case is filed in the Federal District…

The Associated Press and Shepard Fairey, the artist who appropriated an AP photo for his iconic campaign image of President Barack Obama, are continuing their legal battle over copyright infringement and fair use. A statement released by the AP said that Fairey, through his lawyers, admitted incorrectly citing the photo…

A newspaper company—yes, a newspaper company—has a patent on the idea of a “personal profile page” and now wants some payback from Facebook. In a lawsuit filed this week, Phoenix Media subsidiary Tele-Publishing, which provides dating services products to various newspaper companies, says that Facebook is infringing on a patent…

TiVo’s net income loss was slightly higher in Q2, widening to $2.93 million ($0.03 per share) from $2.91 last year. Revenues also dipped, falling to $57.3 million from $65.2 million in Q208. Not great news by any stretch, but the DVR company did beat analysts estimates who expected a loss…

Now it’s Amazon’s turn: the online retailer is suing Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) over four patents related to e-commerce, TechFlash reported (via WSJ). Amazon’s suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Western Washington on Friday, specifically concerns patents for search and recommendation. In March, Discovery initiated…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) scored a win in its long-running patent dispute with Alcatel-Lucent on Monday, when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled that Alcatel-Lucent’s claims on a disputed patent were invalid. A year ago, a jury awarded Alcatel-Lucent $358 million on the finding that Microsoft had infringed the patent,…