The film director James Cameron has reportedly been sued again over allegations that he stole the original idea for his hit 2009 movie Avatar. Bryant Moore, a science fiction screenwriter, is claiming that Cameron based Avatar on two of his own scripts, for projects entitled Descendants: The Pollination and Aquatica. He pointed out that there …
The telecommunications company BT has become the latest in a long line of companies to file a patent infringement lawsuit against Google over its highly successful Android operating system. In the lawsuit, filed in Delaware, in the US, BT is claiming that the mobile platform infringes on a number of patents relating to BT’s work …
The stuffed animal company Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc. has been ordered to hand over a total of $600,000 in fines after it was found that a number of its toy bear beach chairs were defective and could be dangerous to children. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Overland-based company was fined for knowing …
A number of batches of iPhone and iPod battery packs sold by the US retailer Best Buy and manufactured by Mophie have been recalled over fears that they are faulty and could be dangerous to users. Both parties have issued separate product recall notices on the US Consumer Product Safety Commission website warning that as …
Motorola Mobility has triumphed in its lawsuit against Apple, after claiming that the company had failed to license one of its wireless intellectual properties. A court in Germany has now ruled in the Android smartphone maker’s favour. The senior vice-president of Motorola Mobility, Scott Offer, welcomed the ruling, saying: “We will continue to take all …
The global outdoor media company Clear Channel is reportedly being sued by a man from New York who claims it stole the idea for an interactive electronic billboard from him. Jet Thomason is claiming that he had discussed his idea of an interactive electronic billboard, in which tourists post 15 second messages, with Clear Channel. …
Two firms have been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and fined a total of £100,000 after a maintenance worker died after an accident at a factory in Macclesfield. United Crane Services Ltd and Millennium Rubber International Ltd were fined after 60-year-old maintenance worker Martin Denton fell from the forks of a forklift …
The global hospitality corporation MGM Resorts International has reportedly filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against a number of individuals and companies who have registered domain names for poker websites. MGM is claiming that around seven websites, which were registered a number of years ago, are infringing on its own domain. The websites named in the …
The family of a five-year-old girl from Ottawa in Canada who was badly burnt after playing with a lighter are reportedly considering taking legal action against Wal-Mart, alleging that the T-shirt she was wearing was far too flammable. According to the family, 5-year-old Alia McTiernan was playing with her siblings when they found a lighter …