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Buddhist Juror Excused From Elizabeth Holmes Trial Due To Religious Concerns

7th October 2021
Juror No 4 told Judge Edward Davila in the US District Court San Jose that if Holmes were found guilty and sent to prison for a “long, long time” she would feel it was her fault.  “I’m thinking of all the time she’ll be in jail,” the juror told Davila, according to The Mercury News. […]
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Google Didn’t Infringe Digital Photo Frame Patent, Jury Finds

7th October 2021
Texas-based Profectus sued Google in 2020, claiming that its Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max, which control smart-home functions, play music, and display images digitally, infringe its patent. Profectus’ patent relates to a mountable digital photo frame.   However, following a four-day trial, the jury found that Mountain View, California-based Google did not infringe the patent […]
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Tesla Ordered To Pay $137 Million To Former Employee Over Workplace Racism

6th October 2021
Owen Diaz was a former contract worker employed at Tesla through a staffing agency in 2015. In court, he spoke of the hostile work environment in which his colleagues used epithets to torment and belittle him and other Black employees. Diaz was told to “go back to Africa” and left a racist drawing in his […]
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Ericsson Files Suit Against Apple To Clear Proposed 5G Patent Licensing Rates

6th October 2021
Ericsson claims Apple is using improper methods to lower the royalty rates it has to pay. Apple is also accused of refusing to license the patents under anything besides its proposed terms.  According to Ericsson, the lawsuit comes as the two tech giants are deadlocked in negotiations over a new license, having previously settled a […]
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Challenge To New York Tax On Opioid Companies Rejected By US Supreme Court

5th October 2021
The justices declined to hear an appeal of a lower court’s decision upholding the surcharge by two trade groups representing generic drug makers and drug distributors, and a unit of UK-based pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt, which filed for bankruptcy protection last year.  Amongst the law’s challengers were the Association for Accessible Medicines, whose members include Mallinckrodt, […]
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Trump Asks US Judge To Force Twitter To Restart His Account

4th October 2021
The former president filed a request for a preliminary injunction against the social media giant in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He argued that Twitter was “coerced” by members of the US Congress to suspend his account.  In January, Twitter and several other social media giants removed Trump from their […]
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Google Security Official Harassed Black, Homosexual Employee, Lawsuit Alleges

4th October 2021
David Brown, who filed the lawsuit, is jointly employed by the Alphabet Inc unit and security company Allied Universal. Brown is seeking unspecified monetary damages for alleged physical and emotional harassment at Google’s LA offices based on both his race and sexual orientation. The suit claims the harassment took place between 2014 and last year.  […]
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