The intellectual property rights of Nigeria is getting strengthened even as Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court, Lagos ordered Facebook Inc and Facebook Ireland Limited to pay a Nigerian firm, Double Paws Enterprise […]
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have filed a lawsuit in the Arizona District Court against domain registrars, Namecheap and Whoisguard for cybersquatting, trademark infringement, false designation of origin and trademark dilution. The plaintiffs allege that the […]
An artificial intelligence (AI) startup, Neural Magic has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Facebook and its former technology director, Aleksandar Zlateski for trademark infringement. Neural Magic […]
Facebook has settled a class action lawsuit for $550 million. According to the complaint, Facebook violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) when it used its facial recognition technology. The complaint states that Facebook used this technology for […]
Facebook has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California against two web hosting companies, OnlineNIC and ID Shield, alleging trademark infringement and cybersquatting. Facebook alleges that the two […]
Earlier this week, the U.S. Magistrate Judge, Thomas S. Hixson ruled on the case filed by a Photographer, Larry G. Philpot against Alternet Media, Inc. for posting one of his copyrighted pictures of Willie Nelson […]
A couple of weeks ago, social media messaging platform, BlackBerry filed a lawsuit in a U.S. District Court in California against Facebook, for patent infringement. According to the complaint, BlackBerry claims Facebook created a mobile […]
A U.S. District Court in Dallas has ordered Facebook and other defendants to pay $500m after finding they unlawfully used ZeniMax Media’s virtual reality technology. At issues was whether key technologies that led to the virtual reality breakthrough […]
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