Federal Court Grants Preliminary Approval to Sidekick Class Action Settlement

In December 2010 the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted preliminary approval to a class action settlement brought against T-Mobile, Microsoft, and Danger regarding allegations of Sidekick smartphone data interruption and loss arising out of an incident that occurred on or about October 2009. Class Action Notice, settlement, claims forms, and related documents can be found at the SidekickSettlement.com web site. If after reading the documents on the Sidekick Settlement website you believe you may be a class member and have further inquiries then please contact us.

Isohunt Files Appeal to the Ninth Circuit

Isohunt today filed its opening appellate brief to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals urging the court to provide better protection from mass copyright lawsuits to search engines, such as Isohunt, that do not store, touch, or distribute copyrighted works. "This case is about the freedom to search on the internet and whether web search engines have to preemptively censor user generated links and torrent data files or be subject to keyword filtering" says Ira P. Rothken counsel for the Isohunt defendants. Here is a news story at Techdirt and another news story on an industry site.

Update from March 1, 2011 Isohunt filed its reply brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Tosses False Endorsement Claim Against Search Engine and Adult Social Networking Site

On the September 30, 2010 the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Stayart v. Yahoo et al found that the plaintiff did not have a protectable commercial interest in her name under certain sections of the Lanham Act and thus affirmed the trial court's dismissal of such claims against a major search engine and adult social networking site. The Seventh Circuit's opinion can be found here.

Class Action filed against Apple over alleged defective design of the iphone 4 antenna and related software

The Rothken Law Firm announces the filing of a class action lawsuit against Apple regarding  alleged defective design of the iphone 4. The lawsuit was filed in Federal Court in the Northern District of California. The Class Action Complaint and CNET's coverage can be found here. The alleged design defects include the antenna embedded in the case, when used and handled in the normal and ordinary course, caused a degraded signal and dropped calls. In addition, software that was meant to provide the display of the strength of the mobile signal via "bars" was programmed in a defective manner. If you are interested in learning more about the Apple iphone 4 class action or want to assist in our ongoing investigation please fill out a form here to contact us.

Isohunt Files Notice of Appeal

Isohunt today filed a Notice of Appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Isohunt is also filing a motion for stay of an injunction that in essence, to avoid violating the Order, requires Isohunt to filter search results using title words supplied by the motion picture industry. Isohunt believes the injunction is overbroad and is optimistic that the appellate court will provide relief. Here is an article in Wired and a post in Techdirt that discusses some of the free speech issues.