Browsing: Lawsuit
Court fights involving technology companies, explained with the claims, the evidence, the likely outcomes and what a ruling would actually change.
Hearings began on October 6 in a £1.2 billion claim arguing Google’s 30 percent Play Store commission was passed straight into the prices UK Android owners paid. Because it is an opt-out case, roughly 20 million people are already class members without ever filling in a form. Here is who is in, what counts as a qualifying purchase, and why the headline figure is not what lands in anyone’s pocket.
A federal court rewrote Amazon’s FTC settlement payout in September, lifting the per customer cap from $51 to $200. From October 1, automatic payments start reaching people who used 11 to 20 Prime benefits in a year, a group left out of every earlier round.
A San Diego jury awarded Taction Technology $5,721,961,750 over the Taptic Engine, the largest US patent damages figure on record. Apple is appealing, and every comparable mega verdict of the last decade ended up smaller or gone entirely.
Claims are open in Apple’s $250 million Apple Intelligence false advertising settlement. Seven iPhone models qualify, the payment starts at $25 per device, and the filing window closes on December 21, 2026.
New York City’s largest labor enforcement action ever lands on DoorDash: at least $131.5 million after 264,000 delivery workers were underpaid or paid late. The company says it screwed up, and that most of the bill is a formula dispute.
Microsoft’s newly published patent describes pausing a game after a boss fight or loading screen to show an ad, then rewarding players with more ad-free playtime. Here’s what the filing actually says, and why it lands right as Xbox tests free ad-supported cloud streaming.
Sony has agreed to pay $7.85 million to settle the Caccuri antitrust case over PlayStation Store pricing. Eligible accounts are paid automatically in wallet credit, but the headline number and the number that reaches you are not close.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Nvidia structured its Groq deal specifically to avoid antitrust review. It is the first real legal test of a loophole Big Tech has used to spend more than $20 billion without filing a single merger notice.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic and named Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally, seeking up to $150,000 per song over Claude’s training data.
You can use movie clips on YouTube only with a license, from a public domain film, or under a genuine fair use argument. Here is how the four factors apply to film footage, how Content ID claims differ from copyright strikes, and where to get footage nobody will claim.