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Amazon Settles Kindle Lawsuit Over Deleted Copy of “1984″ for $150,000
When Amazon deleted digital copies of Orwell’s 1984 from Kindles, there was a public outcry. Two customers went further and filed a lawsuit against Amazon on September 25th. Now, there is already a settlement in the case. Amazon has agreed to pay the pair $150,000. The settlement may have come quickly in order to prevent a judge from certifying the case for class-action status.
Judge Temporarily Suspends Word Sales Ban
In Technology news a federal appeals court yesterday provided much-needed succor to Microsoft in its high-stakes legal duel with Canadian firm i4i. The latest judgement temporarily suspends the permanent injunction on the sale of Microsoft Word in its current patent-violating avatar…
Microsoft Threatens to Stop Selling Microsoft Office over Word Ban
Upholding i4i’s patent infringement claim against Microsoft, a US Federal court judge placed an injunction on Microsoft Word on August 11, 2009. Judge Leonard Davis ordered that Microsoft pay the Canadian company i4i $290 million in damages and stop the sale of Word in the US, within 60 days of the pronouncement of the order, until the dispute is fully resolved. Microsoft Word’s default file format Office Open XML is at the epicenter of Microsoft’s dispute with i4i. The XML-based file format infringes i4i’s US patent number 5787449.
Intel Files Trademark Infringement Claim against Harris Corporation
The verbal proximity of Harris Corporation’s Centrio product name – used to sell a “breakthrough multiviewer” – to Intel’s Centrino brand name alarmed the chip maker to such an extent that it decided to sue the former. Last week, it initiated a lawsuit alleging that Harris Corporation’s Centrio trademark infringes upon its Centrino trademark.
