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T-Mobile US is accusing Verizon of hypocrisy, pointing to its own “Switch to Verizon” marketing campaign T-Mobile US has filed an official opposition to Verizon’s lawsuit, which alleges that the former’s claims of more than $1,000 in annual savings for …

The lawsuit alleges that T-Mobile’s new Easy Switch onboarding tool uses AI bots to access and scrape customer data from AT&T’s systems unlawfully In sum – what to know: Customer-first positioning – T-Mobile US defends Easy Switch as a transparent, …

Qualcomm is calling out Arm for what it sees as a major shift in strategy Qualcomm has filed complaints with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the European Commission and the Korea Fair Trade Commission, alleging that Arm is abandoning its …

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati ruled that the FCC did not have legal authority to reinstate net neutrality rules A federal appeals court ruling last week overturned an April 2024 Federal Communications Commission vote to …

The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft are stealing copyrighted articles without permission and without payment Eight daily newspapers, including The New York Daily News and The Chicago Tribune, have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the pair are “purloining millions of …

Apple is not ‘making its own products better,’ says Attorney General Merrick Garland, but ‘other products worse’ The U.S. Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of …

T-Mobile’s legal team reportedly called the class action suit ‘unprecedented and speculative’ T-Mobile US has been hit with an antitrust lawsuit related to its 2020 acquisition of Sprint after a U.S. judge ruled in favor of a class action filed …

Amazon and HP aren’t “playing by the rules,” said Nokia’s chief licensing officer Nokia has filed lawsuits in the U.S., Germany, India, the U.K. and the European Unified Patent court against Amazon and HP for allegedly infringing several of its …

The filing, submitted to a U.S. district court, indicates this the licensing transgressions have occurred ‘in multiple jurisdictions’ Ericsson is suing Lenovo and its subsidiary Motorola Mobility for allegedly infringing 5G patents. The filing, submitted to a U.S. district court, …

Avid Telecom is accused of making 7.5 billion illegal robocalls to millions of people on the Do Not Call Registry Nearly every state in the U.S. — and D.C. — has joined a lawsuit this week against Avid Telecom, accusing the company …

The settlement includes global cross-license for patented cellular standard-essential technologies Apple and Ericsson have settled their yearlong legal dispute over iPhone-related and other patents. The settlement involves a new multi-year global patent license deal and joint commitment to “strengthen their technology and …

If the courts side with Arm, Qualcomm could be forced to destroy any designs it has produced with the licenses in question Arm is suing Qualcomm and Nuvia, the startup that Qualcomm acquired in 2021, claiming that the companies violated …

Intel says the $40 million in interest it received from the EC isn’t nearly enough and instead, it wants $625 million In January, Intel won a court appeal involving a 1.06 billion-euro ($1.2 billion) antitrust fine, which it initially paid …

Telstra, Optus and TPG have all said that the National Broadband Network Co has not provided ‘timely and accurate speed information’ Three Australian operators — Telstra, Optus and TPG — are under investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission …

The FTC believes that Qualcomm’s licensing practices demonstrate anticompetitive behavior In September 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for a rehearing of the August 2020 decision of a panel of that court …

Cathy Borten is a legal associate at Miller, Miller & Canby in Rockville Maryland where her work in real estate transactions and leasing has revealed to her the policy and zoning challenges that telecom providers are up against as they …

Ericsson’s shares fell 8.2% after trading began in Stockholm Ericsson announced that it’s taking Samsung to court in the U.S., alleging that the South Korean company failed to deliver on contractual commitments concerning royalty payments and patent licenses. In a …

There was a victory for music owners and operators of so-called “music locker” services today as a judge in New York ruled such services do not infringe copyright, as claimed by a conglomerate of record labels in a case against …

Germany has a long, storied history of being both swift and overzealous in their enforcement of privacy and intellectual property laws. Today Germany’s Independent Centre for Privacy Protection has issued a blanket ban on the Facebook Like button.

Last week Apple persuaded an Australian court to ban sales and promotion of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1. Now a court in Germany has also sided with Apple, resulting in an Europe-wide ban on sales of the device.

Recently-disbanded hacking collective LulzSec, who made waves this summer by hacking high-profile organisations such as the FBI, Sony and the US Senate, have apparently reformed to join the backlash currently engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

Apple may dump Samsung and move to Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC for production of its A6 chip, it has been claimed. According to ComputerWorld, the 28nm chip will be fabbed in Taiwan, rather than Korea, after a spate of legal …