Zwei lawsuits for German ink vendor
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HP sues Pelikan again Hewlett-Packard has filed a second lawsuit against Germany-based Pelikan Hardcopy Deutschland GmbH over an ink cartridge who-dun-it.â¦
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A European Union high court upheld several Anheuser-Busch trademarks and dismissed a challenge from its Czech brewing rival Budvar, the latest ruling in a century of disputes relating to the name âBudweiser.â Budejovicky Budvar asked the court to overturn 12 European Union trademark applications of the Anheuser-Busch Companies, contending they infringe on Budvarâs right under French law to the term Budweiser. The trademarks cover promotional goods including clothing, beer mats, neon signs and glassware. Budvar said it would consider an appeal after studying the verdict, which it said should have little effect on its beer business.
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And MS rejigs compliance policy for SMEs An unnamed software dealer in Germany has been sentenced to three years in prison for selling unlicensed Microsoft products.â¦
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A Martin County man is suing the maker of the prescription drug Vioxx and the Walgreens Corporation. Mark Tomlin alleges he had a heart attack after taking the drug to relieve pain from arthritis.
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn filed a federal lawsuit against Mylan Laboratories Inc. and asset manager Richard C. Perry on Monday, accusing Perry of a vote-buying scheme intended to help Mylan acquire King Pharmaceuticals Inc.
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A state court in Hamburg on Tuesday rejected a German company's lawsuit against Google Inc. over allegations the Internet search engine allows rival companies to buy ads using trademarked terms, an attorney said Tuesday.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle Corp. has added new claims to its ongoing lawsuit against software rival SAP AG. Oracle added copyright and breach-of-contract claims to its list of allegations against the German software vendor in an amended complaint filed Friday in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. "This case is about corporate theft on a grand scale," Oracle's filings state. Oracle now alleges that SAP violated its copyright by illegally downloading software and support documents. The breach of contract claim alleges that SAP violated the terms of use of Oracle's Customer Connection support site. The amended complaint had been expected by May 18, but that deadline was pushed back. It is the latest in a series of legal maneuvers between the two companies, in their ongoing fight for dominance in the enterprise software market. SAP plans to respond to Oracle's complaint by July 2, the company said in a statement, released Friday. "At that time, SAP will set the record straight regarding Oracle's allegations. SAP is eager to vigorously defend this case," SAP said. The suit alleges that staff at SAP's TomorrowNow subsidiary pretended to be Oracle customers in order to gain access to the PeopleSoft and JD Edwards customer support Web site. The lawsuit charges SAP, TomorrowNow, and 50 unnamed individuals with violating fraud laws and engaging in unfair competition and civil conspiracy. The lawsuit came out of the blue two days after Oracle had announced strong third-quarter financial results and claimed its business applications revenue was growing much faster than that of rival and market-share leader SAP. The two companies have long been bitter competitors although they also have customers in common, for instance those running SAP applications on Oracle's databases or middleware. Oracle said it had discovered the illegal access to Customer Connection after noting periods of unusually heavy download activity from the site in late November and December 2006. The vendor claims to have found more than 10,000 unauthorized downloads of its software and support materials, which it then traced to an IP (Internet Protocol) address in Bryan, Texas, an SAP America branch office location and the headquarters of TomorrowNow. Oracle listed customers whose identities TomorrowNow had allegedly purloined, including Honeywell International, Merck & Co. Inc. and OCE-Technologies BV. Since filing the original lawsuit, Oracle has not spoken publicly about the legal action. SAP's response has been to decline comment on the lawsuit other than to commit to aggressively defend itself and TomorrowNow against Oracle's claims. As SAP released its first-quarter fiscal results on April 20, the company's CEO Henning Kagermann was in defiant mood about the Oracle lawsuit. "We have no intention to settle; why should we?" he said. "We don't think anything is wrong in our company." Kagermann added that SAP planned to formally respond to Oracle's suit within "the next weeks." The lawsuit raises a number of issues about the viability of the third-party software maintenance market and common practices within that sector, such as how feasible it is for competitors to provide support for their rivals' offerings. Oracle is also a player in the market, providing support for SAP's older R/3 applications through a partnership with Systime Computers since May 2006. Some observers suggest that if TomorrowNow staff did download the content from Oracle's site, the issue might have had more to do with a lack of a clear policy from Oracle about which content customers and support specialists were entitled to access and what information was out of bounds. Â
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THE DEPARTMENT of Justice said that four employees of Infineon have pleaded guilty to charges of price fixing DRAM. Three German citizens and one US citizen will each pay $250,000 in fines as well as serving between four to six months in jail.
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Globe Direct, the direct mail unit of Boston Globe Media, yesterday filed suit against a Wilmington printing firm and six former Globe Direct employees, alleging they misappropriated trade secrets and confidential information to steal some of Globe Direct's business.
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Kodak, one of the largest digital imaging companies, filed a lawsuit against Sun Microsystems stating that Sun has infringed on Kodak&#39;s various patents, however, the case centered around three main ones.
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Kohnke Communications is suing Gods & Heroes maker Perpetual Entertainment, claiming the game developer owes it money for favorable press coverage.
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The stun gun maker delivers a lawsuit to a would-be rival.
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Blog: Google loses appeal of Gmail trademark case in Germany.
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Pfizer Inc. PFE.N,  the world's  biggest drugmaker, said on Thursday it filed lawsuits against  18 Web sites, charging them with selling illegal versions of  its best selling cholesterol medicine Lipitor.
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BERLIN Sept. 21, 2004 - The billionaire heir of a Nazi-era arms supplier has put his massive art collection on show amid accusations that he is trying to rehabilitate the family name and downplay the use of slave labor by his grandfather&#39;s company.
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Ts and Cs dispute A German company can fight an English customer in the German courts because its terms and conditions said that German jurisdiction applied â albeit those conditions were never sent to the English firm, the Court of Appeal ruled this week.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - AzulÂ and SunÂ have settled aÂ patent infringement suit Sun filed, the companies said Tuesday. The suit had been pending in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California since May 2006, said Scott Sellers, COO and co-founder of Azul. Sun alleged that Azul violated trade secrets and patent laws. Azul, founded in 2002, makes high-capacity computing appliances. The company had hired some former Sun employees, including Stephen DeWitt, its CEO. "We're very pleased to disclose this [settlement]. This has been in the works for some time. Both sides realize they're spending a lot of money, and this would have taken another year," said Sellers. U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer, presiding over the case, had made some pretrial rulings on motions that were adverse to Sun, which prompted the company to agree to settlement talks, Sellers said. Sun tells a different story. In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, Sun spokeswoman Kristi Rawlinson said Azul agreed to settle because Sun was building a stronger case against Azul as the lawsuit went on. "The patent infringement and trade secret claims against Azul grew larger during the pendency of the case," Rawlinson stated. "Azul came to the realization it would be better to return to negotiations and settle the claims rather than continue with the lawsuit they initiated." The case relates to technology for improving the performance of microprocessors through the use of chip multithreading, which Azul is now using in its products. Sun claims Azul infringed patents related to Sun's prior research in the field, and that it abused trade secrets by poaching about a dozen Sun employees familiar with the technology. In a blog posting, Michael Dillon, Sun's chief legal counsel, declined to discuss terms of the settlement, as did Azul's Sellers.