4 posts and columns on legal fees

Nokia to Apple: From Hell's Heart I Stab at Thee

in Mobile on March 29, 2011 at 8:55 am PT

Nokia’s obsession with Apple has officially crossed over into the Ahabian. Aghast at the U.S. International Trade Commission’s ruling on its first complaint against Apple, Nokia has filed a second, accusing Apple of infringing its patents “in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, tablets, and computers.”

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TiVo Shares Sink as It Dials Back Expectations

in News on March 1, 2011 at 3:29 pm PT

Shares in DVR pioneer TiVo moved lower in after-hours trading today after the company posted a loss of $0.30 cents per share–two cents worse than analysts were expecting–and offered a disappointing picture of the current quarter. The fast-forward version: Service and technology revenue, down; subscription rate, down; churn, up; expenses, up; legal fees, substantial.

Apple Countersues Nokia for Copying iPhone (Plus Disputed Patents and Full Text of Counterclaim)

in News on December 11, 2009 at 7:01 am PT

On Oct. 22, Nokia filed suit against Apple, accusing the company of hitching a “free-ride” on its intellectual property. This morning, Apple filed a searing countersuit accusing Nokia of the same thing. “Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours,” Bruce Sewell, Apple’s general counsel and senior vice president, said in a statement. Details and the full text of Apple’s counterclaim after the jump.
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Schmidt to Cuban: Only a Moron Would Worry About YouTube

in News on August 14, 2008 at 9:24 am PT

Entrepreneur Mark Cuban once said “only a moron would buy YouTube,” the implication being that Google was exactly that for purchasing the popular video site. And some would say it is. To date, the company has seen little but accusations of copyright infringement, litigation and skyrocketing legal fees from its investment.