Tesla earlier today filed a lawsuit against Sterling Anderson, the former head of the company’s Autopilot program. Anderson left Tesla a while back in order to form a new self-driving car start-up called Aurora with Chris Urmson, the former CTO of Google’s self-driving program.
Nearly six years after Apple first sued Samsung for patent infringement, the ongoing legal battle between the two tech behemoths shows no signs of slowing down. Even though all of the devices that were at issue in the original case are completely outdated, the two companies are still engaged in a bitter dispute regarding damages. …
Even after agreeing to shell out a massive $14.7 billion settlement in California and initiating the recall and buyback program for its emissions-cheating vehicles, Volkswagen knew that its days in court weren’t quite over with. Today, the company finally faced the music in its lawsuit brought on by the US Justice Department and pled guilty …
In the wake of an extraordinarily tragic accident that resulted in the death of a young 5-year old girl, the parents of the victim have filed a lawsuit against Apple alleging that the company’s Facetime video calling app was not safely designed.
A new and somewhat bizarre lawsuit filed against Google accuses the search giant of running an “internal spying program” and forcing employees to adhere to “illegal confidentiality agreements, policies, guidelines and practices.”
Just two months ago, Apple and Samsung took their epic legal battle to the U.S. Supreme Court where the two companies fought over the exact amount Samsung would ultimately have to pay Apple for patent infringement. Before the proceedings began, Samsung was on the hook for $548 million, of which $399 million was in dispute. In other …
What made Donald Trump’s successful run for the White House all the more impressive was that he managed to defeat Hillary Clinton even while subject to any number of lawsuits. One of the more notable lawsuits plaguing Trump during the recent election centered on his involvement with Trump University, a for-profit education company that promised …
I think most TV and movie lovers would agree that one would be hard pressed to find a service that provides more bang for the buck than Netflix. In addition to a growing stable of quality original programming, Netflix also has a wide selection of movie and TV content. And even though Netflix’s content library is …
Earlier this week, a Biometric sensor company named Valencell filed suit against Apple alleging that the Cupertino-based company effectively stole the underlying heart sensor technology used in the Apple Watch. According to the complaint, which was originally spotted by AppleInsider, Apple Watch development began in earnest in February of 2013. Around that time, an Apple manager reached …
I think most people would agree that patent trolls represent a plague on the tech community, consistently leveraging questionable and often times silly patents in an effort to extort money from companies that actually work hard to release products and services. In many respects, the patent system is out of control, and nowhere is this more …
