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Google has been wrapped up in a patent war with Sonos for the past two years. Photo: Alastair Grant (AP)Google is firing back at Sonos Inc., filing two lawsuits against the audio products company that claim that its voice control technology infringes on a number of Google patents.The lawsuits were filed in California federal court on Monday, claiming that Sonos infringed on seven Google patents related to its smart assistant technology. The two companies have been locked in a patent war for more than two years when Sonos…

Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc was hit with a trademark lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday by MetaX LLC, a company that creates immersive virtual-reality experiences, for allegedly stealing its name for its pivot to the metaverse. New York-based MetaX told the court it had been "crushed" by Facebook's rebrand and said its "ability to operate as Meta has been eviscerated." It accused Meta Platforms of infringing its federal "Meta" trademarks, and requested a court order that blocks the social media company…

Amazon recently said it has filed legal action against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups that attempt to orchestrate fake reviews on the platform in exchange for money or free products.The e-commerce giant said that it will use information discovered in the legal action to identify bad actors and remove fake reviews commissioned by these fraudsters that haven't already been detected.These groups are misleading reviews on Amazon's stores in the US, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Japan."Our…

Earlier this week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rejected two applications for bitcoin spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs). One of the firms, Grayscale Investments, responded by filing a lawsuit against the agency. But not everyone is convinced that it’ll work. “The SEC rejecting both Bitwise and Grayscale’s GBTC spot bitcoin ETF applications is not at all surprising because it follows the same precedent that other asset managers have endured,” Leah Wald, CEO of Valkyrie Investments, said in a Twitter…

Although Adidas and Nike have been in and out of court several times over the years, Adidas has taken it to a new level. On Friday, the company filed its first federal lawsuit against Nike, alleging that its rival infringed on nine of its patents relating to smartphone apps and adjustable shoe tech. Initially reported by Reuters and Complex, the lawsuit pertains to a number of Nike’s digital products. Adidas claims that the Nike Run Club, Training Club, and SNKRS apps infringe its patents related to features like…

Rapper Young Moose has won a $300,000 settlement after filing a lawsuit against convicted Baltimore police officer Daniel Hersl, who served on the infamous Gun Trace Task Force depicted in the HBO series We Own This City.The Baltimore Sun reports Baltimore’s spending board has approved a payment to Kevron Evans, 28, known as Young Moose, after the rapper filed a lawsuit against the city and its police department last March. Evans alleged that several Baltimore police officers, including former detective Hersl, planted…

Twitter investors are now suing the company's potential new owner, Elon Musk, over moves he has made in an attempt to try and drive down the price of their shares. Musk's buyout of the company is trundling along despite him previously saying that it was "temporarily on hold." That message, posted to Twitter, is part of the problem. A new lawsuit claims that Musk has been trying to manipulate Twitter's share price in an attempt to get a better deal than the $44 billion he'd already offered. Musk claimed that Twitter had…

Match Group, the company behind popular dating apps such as Tinder, Match, and OkCupid, is suing Google over its restrictive billing policies on the Play Store. In its complaint, Match Group claims Google “illegally monopolized the market for distributing apps” on Android by forcing apps to use Google’s own billing system and then taking a cut of the payments. Match Group’s complaint plays off an earlier lawsuit Epic Games filed against Apple in 2020, alleging that Apple engaged in “anti-competitive” behavior by…