Communications & Internet Law - Featured Cases
- Almeida v. Google, Inc.
Plaintiff David Almeida alleges that Defendant Google Inc. failed to disclose that leaving the content ad CPC input blank would subject Plaintiff to charges for content ads on third party websites.
California Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: April 22, 2008
Plaintiff: David Almeida; Defendant: Google, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 21, 2009
(April 20, 2009) - Aloft Media, LLC v. Yahoo! Inc. et al
Plaintiff Aloft Media, LLC alleged that Defendants Yahoo!, Inc., Google, Inc. and AOL LLC infringed on U.S. Patent No. 7,472,351 entitled "Mobile E-Mail Manager Interface with Integrated Instant Messaging and Phone Call Initiator Feature."
Texas Eastern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: December 30, 2008
Plaintiff: Aloft Media, LLC; Defendant: Yahoo! Inc., Google, Inc., AOL LLC
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 21, 2009
(April 20, 2009) - The Author's Guild et al v. Google Inc.
Plaintiffs The Author's Guide. Herbert Mitgang, Betty Miles and Daniel Hoffman sued Google Inc. for reproducing a digital copy of plaintiffs' works without the copyright holders' permission and in violation of the authors' rights under the copyright laws.
New York Southern District Court
Copyright
Filed: September 20, 2005
Plaintiff: The Author's Guild, The Author's Guild, The Author's Guild, The Author's Guild, The Author's Guild and others... Defendant: Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 21, 2009
(April 20, 2009) - Aloft Media, LLC v. Google, Inc.
Plaintiff Aloft Media, LLC alleged that Defendant Google, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 7,194,691 entitled "Network Browser Window with Adjacent Identifier Selector Interface for Storing Web Content."
Texas Eastern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: November 19, 2008
Plaintiff: Aloft Media, LLC; Defendant: Google, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 21, 2009
(April 20, 2009) - PA Advisors, LLC v. Google Inc. et al
Plaintiff PA Advisors, LLC allege that Defendants infringed no U.S. Patent No. 6,199,067 entitled "System and Method for Generating Personalized User Profiles and for Utilizing the Generated User Profiles to Perform Adaptive Internet Searches."
Texas Eastern District Court
Patent
Filed: November 2, 2007
Plaintiff: PA Advisors, LLC, PA Advisors, LLC, PA Advisors, LLC, PA Advisors, LLC, PA Advisors, LLC and others... Defendant: Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 21, 2009
(April 20, 2009) - Viacom International, Inc. et al v. Youtube, Inc. et al
Plaintiffs Viacom International Inc., Comedy Partners, Country Music Television, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corporation, and Black Entertainment Television LLC alleged that Defendants YouTube, Inc., YouTube, LLC and Google Inc. infringed Plaintiffs' copyrights.
New York Southern District Court
Copyright
Filed: March 13, 2007
Plaintiff: Viacom International, Inc., Viacom International, Inc., Viacom International, Inc., Viacom International, Inc., Viacom International, Inc. and others... Defendant: Youtube, Inc., Youtube, Inc., Youtube, Inc., Youtube, Inc., Youtube, Inc. and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 13, 2009
(April 19, 2009) - Desenberg v. Google, Inc.
New York Southern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: November 21, 2008
Plaintiff: Roger Marx Desenberg; Defendant: Google, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 20, 2009
(April 19, 2009) - Connectu, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc. et al
ConnectU is suing Facebook for business torts and unfair business practices.
Massachusetts District Court
Copyright
Filed: March 28, 2007
Plaintiff: Connectu, Inc., Connectu, Inc., Connectu, Inc., Connectu, Inc., Connectu, Inc. and others... Defendant: Facebook, Inc., Facebook, Inc., Facebook, Inc., Facebook, Inc., Facebook, Inc. and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 20, 2009
(April 19, 2009) - The Football Association Premier League Limited et al v. Youtube, Inc. et al
Plaintiff filed a class action law suit against YouTube and Google for allowing users to upload and distribute media that infringed on plaintiff's copyrights.
New York Southern District Court
Copyright
Filed: May 4, 2007
Plaintiff: The Football Association Premier League Limited, The Football Association Premier League Limited, The Football Association Premier League Limited, The Football Association Premier League Limited, The Football Association Premier League Limited and others... Defendant: Youtube, Inc., Youtube, Inc., Youtube, Inc., Youtube, Inc., Youtube, Inc. and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 15, 2009
(April 19, 2009) - Google Inc. et al v. Egger et al
Plaintiffs Google Inc., AOL LLC, Yahoo! Inc., IAC Search & Media, Inc. and Lycos, Inc. seek a declaratory judgment that they have not infringed U.S. Patent Nos. 5,544,352, 5,832,494 and 6,233,571 (Method and Apparatus for Indexing, Searching and Displaying Data), that such patents are invalid, and that Defendants L. Daniel Egger, Software Rights Archive, LLC and Site Technologies, Inc. do not own the patents.
California Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: July 1, 2008
Plaintiff: Google Inc., AOL LLC, Yahoo! Inc., IAC Search & Media, Inc., Lycos Inc.; Defendant: L. Daniel Egger, Software Rights Archive LLC, Site Technologies Inc
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 20, 2009
(April 19, 2009) - Performance Pricing, Inc. v. Google Inc. et al
Plaintiff Performance Pricing, Inc. sued Google Inc., AOL LLC, Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. for infringing U.S. Patent No. 6,978,253 entitled "Systems and Methods for Transacting Business Over a Global Communications Network such as the Internet."
Texas Eastern District Court
Patent
Filed: September 27, 2007
Plaintiff: Performance Pricing, Inc., Performance Pricing, Inc., Performance Pricing, Inc., Performance Pricing, Inc., Performance Pricing, Inc. and others... Defendant: Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc. and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 2, 2009
(April 19, 2009) - TradeComet.Com LLC v. Google, Inc.
New York Southern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: February 17, 2009
Plaintiff: TradeComet.Com LLC; Defendant: Google, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 19, 2009
(April 18, 2009) - Cygnus Systems, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, et al
Arizona District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: December 23, 2008
Plaintiff: Cygnus Systems, Inc.; Defendant: Microsoft Corporation, Apple Inc., Google Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 18, 2009
(April 17, 2009) - The Facebook, Inc. v. Connectu, LLC et al
Plaintiffs Facebook, Inc. and Mark Zuckerberg alleges that Defendants ConnectU, Inc., Cameron WInklevoss, Tyler Vinklevoss, Divya Narendra, Pacific Northwest Software, Inc., Winston Wiliams, Wayne Change and David Gucwa circumvented the Terms of Use for the Facebook website by illicitly employing the user IDs and passwords of friends to mask Defendants' real identities, accessed the Facebook website to steal information and data for commercial purposes, and advertised to and solicited members to join www.connectu.com.
California Northern District Court
Other Statutory Actions
Filed: March 9, 2007
Plaintiff: The Facebook, Inc., The Facebook, Inc., The Facebook, Inc., The Facebook, Inc., The Facebook, Inc. and others... Defendant: ConnectU, LLC, Pacific Northwest Software, Inc., Winston Williams, Wayne Chang
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 17, 2009
(April 16, 2009) - Google Inc. et al v. Egger et al
Delaware District Court
Filed: February 11, 2009
Plaintiff: Google Inc., AOL LLC, Yahoo! Inc., IAC Search & Media Inc., Lycos Inc.; Defendant: L. Daniel Egger, Software Rights Archive LLC, Site Technologies Inc.Counter Claimant: SRA LLC, Altitude Capital Partners LP
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 17, 2009
(April 16, 2009) - Software Rights Archive, LLC v. Google Inc. et al
California Northern District Court
Filed: January 20, 2009
Plaintiff: Software Rights Archive, LLC; Defendant: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., IAC Search & Media, Inc., AOL LLC, Lycos, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 17, 2009
(April 16, 2009) - Ligeri v. Youtube, Inc. et al
Plaintiff Benjamin Ligeri sued Defendants YouTube Inc., YouTube LLC, Google Inc. and various YouTube and Google employees and agents and alleged that Defendants had not compensated him for the traffic generated by videos Plaintiff had uploaded to YouTube.
Massachusetts District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: August 14, 2008
Plaintiff: Benjamin Ligeri; Defendant: Youtube, Inc., Youtube, LLC, Youtube Team, Youtube Partner Support Team, Employees and Agents and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 17, 2009
(April 16, 2009) - Cobb v. Google, Inc. et al
Plaintiff Jonathan Cobb sued Defendants Google, Inc. and WorkforceLogic USA. Plaintiff alleges that Google had misappropriated the Google Sky concept and idea, which Plaintiff had presented, advanced and refined through an internal e-mail discussion group.
Georgia Northern District Court
Contract: Other
Filed: February 13, 2008
Plaintiff: Jonathan Cobb, Jonathan Cobb, Jonathan Cobb Defendant: Google, Inc., Workforcelogic USA
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 17, 2009
(April 16, 2009) - Facebook, Inc. v. Guerbuez et al
Plaintiff Facebook, Inc. alleged that Defendants improperly and illegally accessed Facebook's computers and user information to conduct vast spamming campaigns targeted at Facebook users.
California Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: August 14, 2008
Plaintiff: Facebook, Inc.; Defendant: Adam Guerbuez, Atlantis Blue Capital
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 17, 2009
(April 16, 2009) - J.S. et al v. Blue Mountain School District et al
Plaintiff J.S., a minor, sued Defendants Blue Mountain School District, Superintendent Joyce E. Romberger and Principal James S. McGonigle. Plaintiff alleged that the school's discipline for creating a false internet profile purporting to be her school principal violated her civil rights.
Pennsylvania Middle District Court
Civil Rights: Other
Filed: March 28, 2007
Plaintiff: J.S., Terry Snyder, Steven Snyder; Defendant: Blue Mountain School District, Joyce E. Romberger, James S. McGonigle
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 17, 2009
(April 16, 2009) - Web Tracking Solutions, Inc. et al v. Google, Inc.
Plaintiffs Web Tracking Solutions, Inc. and Daniel Wexler alleged that Defendant Google, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,960,409 entitled "Third-Party On-Line Accounting System and Method Therefor."
New York Eastern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: July 31, 2008
Plaintiff: Web Tracking Solutions, Inc., Daniel Wexler; Defendant: Google, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 17, 2009
(April 16, 2009) - Pulaski & Middleman, LLC v. Google Inc.
Plaintiff Pulaski & Middleman, LLC that Defendant Google Inc. breached its contract with advertisers by placing ads on AdSense for Domains and AdSense for Errors sites, as well as low-quality, illegal sites or sites that violated Google's terms of service.
California Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: August 14, 2008
Plaintiff: Pulaski & Middleman, LLC; Defendant: Google Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 17, 2009
(April 16, 2009) - Pulaski & Middleman, LLC v. Google Inc.
California Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: August 14, 2008
Plaintiff: Pulaski & Middleman, LLC, Pulaski & Middleman, LLC, Pulaski & Middleman, LLC, Pulaski & Middleman, LLC, Pulaski & Middleman, LLC and others... Defendant: Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 17, 2009
(April 16, 2009) - HYPERPHRASE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC v. GOOGLE INC.
Plaintiffs HyperPhrase Technologies LLC and HyperPhrase Inc. alleged that Defendant Google Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 6,434,567 entitled "Method for Specifying Enterprise-wide Database Address Formats," No. 6,507,837 entitled "Tiered and Content Based Database Searching," No. 6,516,321 entitled "Method for Database Address Specification," and No. 5,903,889 entitled "System and Method for Translating, Collecting and Archiving Patient Records for Automated Data Storage and Retrieval."
Wisconsin Western District Court
Patent
Filed: April 12, 2006
Plaintiff: HYPERPHRASE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, HYPERPHRASE INC.; Defendant: GOOGLE INC.
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 16, 2009
(April 15, 2009) - Polaris IP, LLC v. Google Inc. et al
Polaris IP, LLC sued Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com Inc., A9.com, Inc., Borders, Inc., Borders Group Inc., AOL LLC, America Online, Inc., IAC/InteractiveCorp., and IAC Search and Media, Inc. for patent infringement involving U.S. Patent No. 6,411,947 entitled "Automatic Message Interpretation and Routing System." Plaintiff alleges that defendants are infringing on the patent by implementing various websites that comprise interpreting electronic messages with rule base and case base knowledge engines.
Texas Eastern District Court
Patent
Filed: August 27, 2007
Plaintiff: Polaris IP, LLC, Polaris IP, LLC, Polaris IP, LLC, Polaris IP, LLC, Polaris IP, LLC and others... Defendant: Google Inc., Yahoo!, Inc., Yahoo!, Inc., Yahoo!, Inc., Yahoo!, Inc. and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 16, 2009
(April 15, 2009) - Jones v. Wackenhut Google Inc.
Plaintiff Donald Jones alleges that defendant Wackenhut employed him as a security guard and assigned him to defendant Google Inc.'s facilities. He further alleges that his employer retaliated against him because he had previously filed a charge of discrimination with the EEOC. He charges that defendant Wackenhut had deducted from his payroll check and had suspended him because a Google representative allegedly observed him sleeping on the job.
Georgia Northern District Court
Civil Rights: Jobs
Filed: March 12, 2007
Plaintiff: Donald Jones Defendant: Wackenhut, Wackenhut
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 16, 2009
(April 15, 2009) - Function Media, L.L.C. v. Google, Inc. et al
Plaintiff alleges that Google's AdSense and AdWords technologies, Google Print Ads, and Yahoo's Publisher and Content Match technologies infringe on its patents.
Texas Eastern District Court
Patent
Filed: July 3, 2007
Plaintiff: Function Media, L.L.C., Function Media, L.L.C., Function Media, L.L.C., Function Media, L.L.C., Function Media, L.L.C. and others... Defendant: Google, Inc., Google, Inc., Google, Inc., Yahoo!, Inc., Yahoo!, Inc. and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 16, 2009
(April 15, 2009) - Northeastern University et al v. Google, Inc.,
Plaintiffs Northwestern University and Jarg Corporation allege that Defendant Google, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,694,593 entitled "Distributed Computer Database System and Method."
Texas Eastern District Court
Patent
Filed: November 6, 2007
Plaintiff: Northeastern University, Northeastern University, Northeastern University, Northeastern University, Northeastern University and others... Defendant: Google, Inc.,, Google, Inc.,, Google, Inc.,, Google, Inc.,, Google, Inc.,
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 16, 2009
(April 15, 2009) - GraphOn Corporation v. Google Inc.
Plaintiff GraphOn Corporation alleged that Defendant Google Inc. infringed U.S. Patent Nos. 6,324,538 and 6,850,940 entitled "Automated On-Line Information Services and Directory, Particularly for the World Wide Web," and U.S. Patent Nos. 7,028,034 and 7,269,591 entitled "Method and Apparatus for Providing a Dynamically-Updating Pay-For-Service Web Site."
Texas Eastern District Court
Both
Filed: August 13, 2008
Plaintiff: GraphOn Corporation; Defendant: Google Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 15, 2009
(April 14, 2009) - Viacom International Inc. et al v. YouTube, Inc. et al
California Northern District Court
Filed: October 20, 2008
Plaintiff: Viacom International Inc., The Football Association Premier League Limited; Defendant: YouTube, Inc., YouTube, LLC, Google Inc.3rd party plaintiff: BayTSP, Inc
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 15, 2009
(April 14, 2009) - Brave New Films 501 (C)(4) v. Weiner et al
Talk radio host Michael Weiner (aka Michael Savage) and his syndication network, Original Talk Radio Network, filed a DMCA takedown request for YouTube to remove a video made by Brave New Films containing clips of Savage's commentary. Brave New Films is suing Savage and OTRN for a declaratory judgment that Savage's material in the video is a fair use. Plaintiff is also suing Savage and OTRN for damages and injunctive relief, based on alleged misrepresentations made via the takedown notice to YouTube.
California Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: October 10, 2008
Plaintiff: Brave New Films 501 (C)(4); Defendant: Michael Weiner, Original Talk Radio Network Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 14, 2009
(April 13, 2009) - Software Rights Archive, LLC v. Google Inc. et al
Plaintiff Software Rights Archive, LLC alleges that Defendants Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., IAC Search & Media, Inc., AOL LLC and Lycos, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,544,352 entitled "Method and Apparatus for Indexing, Searching and Displaying Data."
Texas Eastern District Court
Patent
Filed: November 21, 2007
Plaintiff: Software Rights Archive, LLC, Software Rights Archive, LLC, Software Rights Archive, LLC, Software Rights Archive, LLC, Software Rights Archive, LLC and others... Defendant: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo! Inc., IAC Search & Media, Inc. and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 13, 2009
(April 12, 2009) - i.think inc v. Minekey Inc et al
Plaintiff i.think inc. alleged that Defendants Minekey, Inc. and Delip Andra infringed on Plaintiff's service mark by using the iThink mark in connection with online opinion polls on Internet networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Hi5 and Friendster.
Texas Northern District Court
Trademark
Filed: February 1, 2008
Plaintiff: i.think inc; Defendant: Minekey Inc, Delip Andra, Internet Unlimited LLC
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 11, 2009
(April 10, 2009) - Sidell v. Structured Settlement Investments, LP et al
Plaintiff Scott Sidell alleged that Defendant Structured Settlement Investments, LP, Plaintiff Funding Holding, Inc. d/b/a LawCash, Dennis Shields, Harvey Hirschfeld, Richard Palma and Scott Yucht accessed his private Yahoo e-mail account and monitored his e-mail communications.
Connecticut District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: May 8, 2008
Plaintiff: Scott Sidell; Defendant: Structured Settlement Investments, LP, Plaintiff Funding Holding, Inc, Dennis Shields, Harvey Hirschfeld, Richard Palma and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 10, 2009
(April 9, 2009) - Facebook, Inc. v. Studivz, Ltd et al
Plaintiff Facebook, Inc. alleged that Defendants StudiVZ Ltd. ran a knockoff of Facebook's website by copying the look, feel, features and services of facebook.com
California Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: July 18, 2008
Plaintiff: Facebook, Inc.; Defendant: Studivz, Ltd, Verlagsgruppe George Von Holtzbrinck GmbH, Holtzbrinck Networks GmbH, Holtzbrinck Ventures GmbH
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 8, 2009
(April 9, 2009) - Search Warrant E-mail Account laougineyahoo. ...
Michigan Eastern District Court
Other Statutory Actions
Filed: January 29, 2009
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 3, 2009
(April 2, 2009) - Viacom International Inc. et al v. YouTube, Inc. et al
Plaintiff Viacom International, Inc., et al. sought to compel production of documents by non-party Respondents Artis Capital Management L.P., Sequoia Capital Operations LLC and TriplePoint Capital LLC.
California Northern District Court
Filed: June 20, 2008
Plaintiff: Viacom International Inc., Comedy Partners, Country Music Television, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corporation, Black Entertainment Television and others...; Defendant: YouTube, Inc., YouTube, LLC, Google, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: March 30, 2009
(March 29, 2009) - American Airlines, Inc. v. Yahoo! Inc. et al
Plaintiff American Airlines Inc. alleged that Defendants Yahoo! Inc. and Overture Services, Inc. d/b/a Yahoo! Search Marketing sold to third parties the right to use the trademarks and service marks of American Airlines as keywords that trigger the appearance of paid advertisements.
Texas Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: October 17, 2008
Plaintiff: American Airlines, Inc.; Defendant: Yahoo! Inc., Overture Services, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: March 26, 2009
(March 25, 2009) - Yahoo! Inc. v. American Airlines, Inc.
California Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: November 21, 2008
Plaintiff: Yahoo! Inc.; Defendant: American Airlines, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: March 18, 2009
(March 17, 2009) - RIGGS v. MYSPACE, INC. et al
Pennsylvania Western District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: October 24, 2008
Plaintiff: JULIE C. RIGGS; Defendant: MYSPACE, INC., NEWS CORPORATION, TOM ANDERSON
Last Docket Report Change Found: March 16, 2009
(March 15, 2009) - Facebook, Inc. v. Wallace et al
California Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: February 24, 2009
Plaintiff: Facebook, Inc.; Defendant: Sanford Wallace, Adam Arzoomanian, Scott Shaw
Last Docket Report Change Found: March 6, 2009
(March 5, 2009) - PartsRiver, Inc. v. Shopzilla, Inc. et al
California Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: February 25, 2009
Plaintiff: PartsRiver, Inc.; Defendant: Shopzilla, Inc., Yahoo!, Inc., PriceGrabber.com, Inc., eBay, Inc., Microsoft CorporationCounter-claimant: Shopzilla, Inc., Yahoo!, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Counter-defendant: PartsRiver, Inc. and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: March 2, 2009
(March 1, 2009) - PARKER v. YAHOO!, INC. et al
Plaintiff Gordon Roy Parker alleged that Defendants Yahoo!, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation infringed on Plaintiff's registered works--Outfoxing the Foxes, 29 Reasons Not to Be a Nice Guy and Why Hotties Choose Losers--by copying, storing and displaying his works within its cache.
Pennsylvania Eastern District Court
Copyright
Filed: July 13, 2007
Plaintiff: GORDON ROY PARKER; Defendant: YAHOO!, INC., MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Last Docket Report Change Found: February 21, 2009
(February 20, 2009) - Stayart v. Yahoo! Inc et al
Wisconsin Eastern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: February 5, 2009
Plaintiff: Beverly Stayart; Defendant: Yahoo! Inc, Overture Services Inc., Various Inc
Last Docket Report Change Found: February 14, 2009
(February 13, 2009) - IconFind v. Yahoo!
California Eastern District Court
Both
Filed: January 13, 2009
Plaintiff: IconFind Inc.; Defendant: Yahoo! Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: January 15, 2009
(January 14, 2009) - Quito Enterprises, LLC v. Netflix, Inc. et al
Florida Southern District Court
Defendant
Filed: December 26, 2008
Plaintiff: Quito Enterprises, LLC; Defendant: Netflix, Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., Yahoo!, Inc., Slacker, Inc., Pandora Media, Inc. and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: December 30, 2008
(December 29, 2008) - Congregation Beth Aaron et al v. Yang et al
California Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: December 3, 2008
Plaintiff: Congregation Beth Aaron, Congregation Beth Aaron, Congregation Beth Aaron, Congregation Beth Aaron Defendant: Jerry Yang, Ronald Burkle, Robert Kotick, Gary Wilson, Maggie Wilderotter and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: December 30, 2008
(December 29, 2008) - Hendricks v. Spangler et al
Plaintiff David S. Hendricks d/b/a Clipart deSIGN USA alleged that Defendants Dan Spangler and Cathy Davis willfully infringed Plaintiff's copyrights, by copying, displaying, selling, and distributing copies of Plaintiff's vector images through Defendants Yahoo! Inc. and eBay Inc.
Washington Western District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: October 29, 2008
Plaintiff: David S Hendricks; Defendant: Dan Spangler, Cathy Davis, Yahoo! Inc, eBay Inc
Last Docket Report Change Found: October 31, 2008
(October 30, 2008) - SNYDER v. MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY et al
Plaintiff Stacy Snyder alleged that Defendant Millersville University lowered Plaintiff's ratings in professionalism from superior to unsatisfactory and stripped her of her BSE degree and teaching certification based upon a photo of the Plaintiff that appeared on her MySpace web page.
Pennsylvania Eastern District Court
Civil Rights: Other
Filed: April 25, 2007
Plaintiff: STACY SNYDER Defendant: MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY, J. BARRY GIRVIN, JANE S. BRAY, VILAS A. PRABHU
Last Docket Report Change Found: October 27, 2008
(October 26, 2008) - Facebook, Inc. v. John Does 1-10
Plaintiff Facebook, Inc. alleged that someone using Internet Protocol address 216.127.50.20 accessed Facebook's website with an automated script in an attempt gain unauthorized access to Facebook's friend-finder functionality.
California Northern District Court
Other Statutory Actions
Filed: June 28, 2007
Plaintiff: Facebook, Inc., Facebook, Inc., Facebook, Inc. Defendant: John Does 4-10, John Does 11-20, Brian Fabian, Josh Raskin, Ming Wu and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: October 25, 2008
(October 24, 2008) - Abrams v. Facebook, Inc.
Plaintiff alleges that Defendant Facebook, Inc. transmits or permits to be transmitted unauthorized text messages to the wireless devices of consumers nationwide.
California Northern District Court
Fraud or Truth-In-Lending
Filed: October 22, 2007
Plaintiff: Lindsey Abrams, Lindsey Abrams, Lindsey Abrams, Lindsey Abrams Defendant: Facebook, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: October 14, 2008
(October 13, 2008) - Myspace, Inc. v. Wallace et al
Florida Middle District Court
Filed: September 30, 2008
Plaintiff: Myspace, Inc.; Defendant: Sanford Wallace, Walter Rines, Online Turbo Merchant, Inc., Odysseus Marketing, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: October 1, 2008
(September 30, 2008) - Hasbro, Inc. v. RJ Softwares et al
Plaintiff Hasbro, Inc. alleged that Defendants RJ Softwares, Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla infringed on Plaintiff's trademark and copyright by creating and publicly displaying an online game that copies the essential and original elements of the Scrabble board game and promoting and profiting from it in commerce in the United States under the confusingly similar Scrabulous name.
New York Southern District Court
None
Filed: July 24, 2008
Plaintiff: Hasbro, Inc.; Defendant: RJ Softwares, Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla
Last Docket Report Change Found: September 12, 2008
(September 11, 2008) - Lenz v. Universal Music Group Inc. et al
California Northern District Court
Copyright
Filed: July 24, 2007
Plaintiff: Stephanie Lenz; Defendant: Universal Music Group Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: August 21, 2008
(August 20, 2008) - Lane et al v. Facebook, Inc. et al
Plaintiffs alleged that Defendant Facebook, Inc. and Defendants Facebook Beacon Activated Affiliates (i.e., Blockbuster, Inc., Fandango, Inc., Hotwire, Inc., STA Travel, Inc., Overstock.com, Inc., Zappos.com, Inc. and Gamefly, Inc.) violated their privacy
California Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: August 12, 2008
Plaintiff: Sean Lane, Mohannaed Sheikha, Sean Martin, Ali Sammour, Mohammaed Zidan and others...; Defendant: Facebook, Inc., Blockbuster, Inc., Fandango, Inc., Hotwire, Inc., Sta Travel, Inc. and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: August 13, 2008
(August 12, 2008) - MySpace, Inc. v. Wallace et al
Plaintiff MySpace Inc. sought enforcement of a default judgment against Defendants Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines for violating the CAN-SPAM Act and California's anti-phishing statute.
New Hampshire District Court
Filed: July 3, 2008
Plaintiff: MySpace, Inc.; Defendant: Sanford Wallace, Walter Rines, Online Turbo Merchant, Inc., Odysseus Marketing, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: July 17, 2008
(July 16, 2008) - CROSS ATLANTIC CAPITAL PARTNERS, INC. v. FACEBOOK, INC. et al
Plaintiff Cross Atlantic Capital Partners Inc. alleges that defendant Facebook, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 6,518,629 B2 entitled "System for creating a community for users with common interests to interact in."
Pennsylvania Eastern District Court
Patent
Filed: July 3, 2007
Plaintiff: CROSS ATLANTIC CAPITAL PARTNERS, INC., CROSS ATLANTIC CAPITAL PARTNERS, INC., CROSS ATLANTIC CAPITAL PARTNERS, INC. Defendant: FACEBOOK, INC., FACEBOOK, INC., FACEBOOK, INC., FACEBOOK, INC., FACEBOOK, INC. and others... Counter Claimant: FACEBOOK, INC., THEFACEBOOK, LLC, FACEBOOK, INC., FACEBOOK, INC., FACEBOOK, INC., FACEBOOK, INC., FACEBOOK, INC., FACEBOOK, INC., THEFACEBOOK, LLC, THEFACEBOOK, LLC, THEFACEBOOK, LLC, THEFACEBOOK, LLC, THEFACEBOOK, LLC, THEFACEBOOK, LLC and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: July 16, 2008
(July 15, 2008) - Doe v. MySpace, Inc.
Plaintiffs Jane Doe IX and Julie Doe IX allege that Defendant MySpace, Inc. provided an unprotected social networking site absent any legitimate means of preventing contact between sexual predators and minors, resulting in a sexual predator utilizing the site to contact, seduce, meet, assault and then harass and torment Julie Doe IX.
Texas Eastern District Court
Defendant
Filed: April 23, 2008
Plaintiff: Jane Doe, IX; Defendant: MySpace, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: April 24, 2008
(April 23, 2008) - Phenomenon Licensing v. MySpace Inc.
Ohio Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: March 20, 2008
Plaintiff: Phenomenon Licensing; Defendant: MySpace Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: March 21, 2008
(March 20, 2008) - Crisswell v. MySpace, Inc.
Illinois Northern District Court
Plaintiff
Filed: March 18, 2008
Plaintiff: Michael Crisswell; Defendant: MySpace, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: March 19, 2008
(March 18, 2008) - Beneficial Innovations, Inc. v. AOL, LLC. et al
Plaintiff Beneficial Innovations, Inc. alleges that Defendants infringed on U.S. Patent Nos. 6,712,702 entitled "Method and System for Playing Games on a Network" and 6,183,336 entitled "Network Gaming System."
Texas Eastern District Court
Patent
Filed: December 20, 2007
Plaintiff: Beneficial Innovations, Inc., Beneficial Innovations, Inc., Beneficial Innovations, Inc., Beneficial Innovations, Inc., Beneficial Innovations, Inc. and others... Defendant: AOL, LLC., The Dallas Morning News, Inc., The Dallas Morning News, Inc., The Dallas Morning News, Inc., The Dallas Morning News, Inc. and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: December 31, 1969
(February 10, 2008) - Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation v. YouTube, Inc.
Plaintiff Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation operates a website at utube.com. Plaintiff alleges that as a result of confusion in the minds of consumers, the spillover of nuisance traffic to plaintiff's website has destroyed the value of plaintiff's trademark and internet property, repeatedly caused the shut down of plaintiff's website, increased plaintiff's internet costs and damaged the plaintiff's good reputation.
Ohio Northern District Court
Trademark
Filed: October 30, 2006
Plaintiff: Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation; Defendant: YouTube, Inc., Chad Hurley, Steve ChenCounter-Claimant: YouTube, Inc., Counter-Defendant: Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation
Last Docket Report Change Found: December 31, 1969
(November 8, 2007) - Antor Media Corporation v. Metacafe, Inc.
Plaintiff Antor Media Corporation alleged that MetaCafe, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,734,961 entitled "Method and Apparatus for Transmitting Information Recorded on Information Storage Means from a Central Server to Subscribers via a High Data Rate Digital Telecommunications Network."
Texas Eastern District Court
Patent
Filed: March 27, 2007
Plaintiff: Antor Media Corporation; Defendant: Metacafe, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: December 31, 1969
(November 4, 2007) - MySpace Inc v. Optinrealbig.com LLC et al
Plaintiff MySpace Inc. sued defendants Media Breakaway, LLC and Scott Richter for sending millions of spam bulletins through MySpace's network by misappropriating login names and passwords from MySpace users.
California Central District Court
Other Statutory Actions
Filed: January 19, 2007
Plaintiff: MySpace Inc; Defendant: Optinrealbig.com LLC, CPA Empire.Com LLC, Media Breakaway LLC, Scott Richter, Marat Nigmatzyanov and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: December 31, 1969
(September 27, 2007) - Doe v. Myspace, Inc. et al
Plaintiff Jane Doe sued defendants MySpace Incorporated and News Corporation for negligence, gross negligence, fraud and negligent misrepresentation over the rape of plaintiff by a 19-year-old who had initiated contact with Jane Doe through MySpace, despite safeguards MySpace purportedly had in place.
Texas Western District Court
P.I.: Other
Filed: December 13, 2006
Plaintiff: Jane Doe, Jane Doe, Jane Doe, Jane Doe, Jane Doe and others... Defendant: Myspace, Inc., Myspace, Inc., Myspace, Inc., Myspace, Inc., Myspace, Inc. and others...
Last Docket Report Change Found: December 31, 1969
(September 24, 2007) - MY FIRST BIKE PRODUCTIONS, INC. v. MYSPACE, INC. et al
Indiana Southern District Court
Copyright
Filed: April 13, 2007
Plaintiff: MY FIRST BIKE PRODUCTIONS, INC.; Defendant: MYSPACE, INC., DIRECTV, INC., FOX INTERACTIVE MEDIA, INC.
Last Docket Report Change Found: December 31, 1969
(July 22, 2007) - Cal IV Entertainment, LLC v. Youtube, Inc. et al
Plaintiff, a music publishing company, alleges that Defendants infringed its copyrights by allowing users to upload videos containing plaintiff's copyrighted works and providing access to certain content filtering technologies only to existing business partners.
Tennessee Middle District Court
Copyright
Filed: June 7, 2007
Plaintiff: Cal IV Entertainment, LLC; Defendant: Youtube, Inc., Youtube, LLC, Google, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: December 31, 1969
(July 9, 2007) - Requa v. Kent School District No 415 et al
Plaintiff Gregory Requa sued Defendants Kent School District No. 415, Barbara Grohe (Superintendent) and Michael Albrecht (Principal) for violating his federal and state constitutional rights of free speech and due process, as well as depriving him of his liberty and property rights. Plaintiff alleges that he was suspended for 40 school days for posting a video on YouTube.com criticizing a teacher at the high school.
Washington Western District Court
Other Statutory Actions
Filed: May 17, 2007
Plaintiff: Gregory Requa; Defendant: Kent School District No 415, Barbara Grohe, Michael Albrecht
Last Docket Report Change Found: December 31, 1969
(June 25, 2007) - Grisman et al v. YouTube, Inc. et al
Plaintiffs, owners of Dawg Music, allege that Defendants infringed on plaintiff's protected works and refused to deter infringing activities.
California Northern District Court
Copyright
Filed: May 10, 2007
Plaintiff: David J. Grisman, Craig Miller; Defendant: YouTube, Inc., YouTube, LLC, Google, Inc.
Last Docket Report Change Found: December 31, 1969
(May 24, 2007) - NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE AUTHORITY v. YOUTUBE, INC. et al
Plaintiff New Jersey Turnpike Authority captured a car accident on video that occurred at the Great Egg Harbor toll plaza in Somers Point, New Jersey. Plaintiff asserts that the video is the copyright property of the NJTA and has filed an application with the US Copyright Office to obtain federally registered copyrights for the accident video. This video was subsequently uploaded to YouTube.com, LiveLeak.com and Break.com.
New Jersey District Court
Copyright
Filed: May 22, 2007
Plaintiff: NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE AUTHORITY; Defendant: YOUTUBE, INC., NEXTPOINT, LLC, LIVELEAK.COM, ABC CORPORATIONS 1-10, JOHN DOES 1-10
Last Docket Report Change Found: December 31, 1969
(May 23, 2007) - IN RE: YouTube, Inc.
Lucia Eams sought a subpoena to discover the identity of the person who had uploaded unauthorized copies of works to YouTube that infringed her copyrights.
Vermont District Court
Filed: March 20, 2007
Movant: Lucia Eames
Last Docket Report Change Found: December 31, 1969
(March 18, 2007) - v. YouTube, Inc.
California Northern District Court
Filed: January 18, 2007
Miscellaneous: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Last Docket Report Change Found: December 31, 1969
(February 13, 2007) - Mora v. MySpace.com
Missouri Western District Court
Fraud or Truth-In-Lending
Filed: November 13, 2006
Plaintiff: Brian Mora; Defendant: MySpace.com
Last Docket Report Change Found: December 31, 1969
(December 13, 2006) - Jane Doe v. MySpace, Inc. et al
New York Southern District Court
P.I.: Other
Filed: September 29, 2006
Plaintiff: Jane Doe; Defendant: MySpace, Inc., News Corporation
Last Docket Report Change Found: December 31, 1969
(November 30, 2006)