The Delhi High Court has ordered Oppo to deposit 23% of its India sales for using Nokia’s technology in its phones without the requisite consent. Oppo has to get the compensation done within 4 weeks.

The 23% figure was decided by the High Court Bench because Oppo’s sales in India account for around 23% of its global sales.

In 2018, Oppo secured a license from Nokia for using their technology over a 3-year agreement. Oppo also made advance payments for using this technology.

The agreement did not cover the use of patents relating to 5G standards. 5G devices account for 52% of Oppo’s sales in India. Considering this, Oppo would have had to pay a substantially higher amount to Nokia.

Nokia alleged that after the 2018 agreement expired, Oppo had an unprecedented increase in the sale of its devices and around 77 million of their devices had been sold in India without paying a single rupee as royalty.

Nokia’s case is that they offered to discuss the renewal of the agreement but, Oppo refused to negotiate. Nokia then filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court for infringement of its patent for 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G devices in India.

Nokia sought a temporary deposit from Oppo of an amount based on the latest counteroffer made by Oppo for a global license during the negotiations or an amount equivalent to the royalty paid under the 2018 agreement.

A single judge of the High Court dismissed the application seeking interim deposit, stating that the court did not have the power to do so without going into the merits of the case. Nokia then appealed against the order before a 2 judge bench.

In this case, Oppo’s argument is that a patent holder cannot seek an interim or even a permanent injunction as a matter of right and Nokia was seeking interim security in the initial stages of the case, without substantiating any of its claims.

The court set aside the single judge’s order and directed Oppo to deposit 23% of the proceeds of their India sales.

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Basketball player, Rajon Rondo has now settled down a lawsuit in Los Angeles, according to court fillings, from an incident which was two years back in 2020, in which the NBA star was accused of assaulting a woman in a parking lot.

Toktam Jorshari, who had sued Rondo for assault and battery, has filed a notice in an L.A. court, he indicates the party has reached to a settlement. The case should be now dismissed legally.

An altercation between the two parties occurred outside an apartment complex in July 2020, it also involves Rondo’s girlfriend.

In the lawsuit, Jorshari alleged that the Clippers PG was not happy about how close her car was parked to his $300k Rolls-Royce, which led Rondo’s GF getting on with the attack.

Jorshari has claimed that she suffered injuries from the confrontation after being punched in the face and head multiple times by Rondo’s girlfriend.

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Google has raised a lawsuit against Sonos on the grounds of the wireless speaker company infringing on a number of its patents around smart speakers and voice control technology. So far, Sonos has launched multiple lawsuits against Google, while Google struck back with one and one lawsuit has ruled in favor of Sonos. This favor has led to features being removed from Google’s products. 

The new lawsuits allege infringement of seven additional patents. One of them focuses on hotword detection and wireless charging while another revolves around ow a group of speakers determines which one should respond to voice input. 

Google’s lawsuit states that Sono’s Voice Control feature for its smart speakers, infringes seven patents related to Google Assistant technology. 

Sono on the other hand denied Google’s allegations in the new lawsuit. Sono’s also denied Google’s previous allegations and asserted that Google has “turned to strong arm tactics” after infringing Sono’s patents. 

Google’s spokesperson, “Jose Castaneda” on the other hand claims that Sonos came up with an aggressive and misleading campaign against Google’s products. 

Google, in their Monday lawsuits has accused Sonos of infringing patents related to voice assistant technology in voice-controlled and battery-powered devices. Google also stated that it had made Google Assistant available to Sonos for years now. Google also mentioned that their engineers helped Sonos engineers in implementing voice-recognition technology in Sonos devices. 

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According to Twitter, a malicious actor appears to have exploited a technical weakness that put the identities of an undetermined number of owners of anonymous accounts in danger last year. On Friday, it stated that users globally had been disrupted, but it did not support a report that indicated as a result, data on 5.4 million people were made available for purchase online.

The theft is especially troubling because many Twitter users, particularly human rights activists, hide their names in their profiles out of security reasons and/or fear of retaliation from authoritarian authorities. Jeff Kosseff, a data security specialist at the US Naval Academy, tweeted: “This is incredibly bad for anyone who uses anonymous Twitter accounts.”

The bug, according to the company, allowed anyone to determine whether a particular phone number or email address was linked to an active Twitter account during the login process, revealing account owners. No credentials were made public, according to Twitter, and it was not immediately clear how many people might have been affected.

We can confirm that there was a worldwide impact, In an email, a representative of Twitter wrote. “We are unable to determine the exact number of affected accounts or the location of the account holders.”

Twitter addressed the problem in a blog post on Friday in response to a report published last month by the digital privacy advocacy group Restore Privacy that detailed how data allegedly obtained from the vulnerability was being sold on a well-known hacking market for USD 30,000.

A security researcher who discovered the flaw in January also contacted Twitter and allegedly received a $5,000 payment. According to Twitter, the bug, which had been introduced in a June 2021 software update, was swiftly fixed.

As reported in the media, Twitter claimed to have learned about the data sale on the hacker forum and to have “verified that a bad actor had exploited the problem before it was rectified. All account owners whose accounts it can verify were impacted, it claimed, would be immediately notified. The company stated, “We are posting this information because we are unable to confirm every account that was potentially compromised, and we are especially cautious of users using pseudonymous accounts who may be targeted by state or other actors.”

It suggested users not include their email or phone number in their Twitter profile if they wished to keep their identities a secret. The disclosure of the breach coincides with Twitter’s lawsuit against Tesla CEO Elon Musk for attempting to retract his earlier $44 billion deal to buy the San Francisco-based business.

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The battle between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Twitter has officially intensified, by countersuing the microblogging platform on Friday, July 29. For walking away from the $44 billion twitter deal in response to the social media company’s legal complaint filed against Elon Musk, A lawsuit was filed confidentially.

The tweet by Elon Musk which read as  Tesla + Twitter -> Twizzler has brought many questions to the follower’s minds. Is Elon Musk planning a merger again or is he indicating something in a rather sarcastic way?

Tesla + Twitter -> Twizzler

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 30, 2022

Despite not being available to the general public at the time of writing, reports indicated that a court order might soon make a redacted version of the case document available.
The source claims that Elon Musk filed the lawsuit soon after Delaware Court of Chancery Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick ordered a five-day trial to begin on October 17 to determine if he could pull out of the $44 billion deal. The court has scheduled a five-day trial for this case.
This decision does not, in McCormick’s words, “resolve any specific discovery disputes, including the appropriateness of any requests for requests for very large data sets.”

To settle his attempt to renege on a $44 billion acquisition agreement for the social media network, Elon Musk wanted a five-day trial beginning on October 17 rather than October 10 as Twitter Inc. had requested on Tuesday. The breadth of discovery and who would have access to internal documents and other evidence, however, did not appear to be areas of agreement between the two parties.
In April, Musk agreed to buy Twitter and take it private with an offer of $54.20 per share and a promise to make content policing easier and remove phony accounts. Musk broke the agreement on July 9.

If either side was to fault for the agreement falling through, Musk and Twitter had agreed to divide a $1 billion breakup fee.

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A class action lawsuit was filed against Meta Facebook in the Northern District of California where a large group of people suffered the same issue from the company and collectively claimed the court to take action against Meta.  According to the lawsuit the UCSF Medical Center and the Dignity Health Medical Foundation alleged that organization such as Meta has been unlawfully collecting sensitive healthcare information about the patients solely for advertising.

According to the reports, the said organization collected data from both the medical portals beyond its login walls where sensitive information regarding the patients is usually kept for the hospital to use. The lawsuit stated that neither the hospitals nor Meta took the consent of the patients before transferring details. They realized their data has been transferred from the hospital to Facebook when Facebook started showing specific advertisements similar to the medical condition they have.

According to the data-driven investigation agency the Markup, Meta Pixel is used by more than 80,000 popular websites and several anti-abortion clinics and other healthcare providers. It is believed to have established tracking codes in 33 websites of the top 100 hospitals in the US. Interestingly the tracking codes can access data from even password-protected client information sections on the portals. The Meta Pixel is a piece of code that can be injected into any website to collect data regarding visitors’ profiles for targeted advertisements.

According to the collective that filed the lawsuit, they received targeted advertisements specifically detailing their medical conditions over Facebook and emails. They claim to feel violated by those ads as they never agreed to deliver sensitive information regarding them. However, Meta detailed that they have rights over its data privacy policy stating that its partners can collect data lawfully regarding patient information and transfer it over to the company.

The complaint reads, “Healthcare Defendants do not have the legal right to use or share Plaintiffs’ and Class members data, as this information is protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996’s (“HIPAA”) Privacy Rule, which protects all electronically protected health information a covered entity like Healthcare Defendants “create[], receive[], maintain[], or transmit[]” in electronic form.”

The collective accused both Meta and the hospitals of sharing and transferring sensitive information without the knowledge of the patients.

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An alliance of 48 state lawyers general, driven by New York’s Letitia James, reported another claim against Facebook Wednesday, charging the organization smothers rivalry to secure its “restraining infrastructure power.”

The claim comes the very day that the Federal Trade Commission declared a different suit against the web-based media goliath, likewise blaming it for hostile to serious practices.

“For nearly a decade, Facebook has used its dominance and monopoly power to crush smaller rivals and snuff out competition, all at the expense of everyday users,” Attorney General James said in a statement. “Today, we are taking action to stand up for the millions of consumers and many small businesses that have been harmed by Facebook’s illegal behavior.”

James said Facebook “used its power to suppress competition so it could take advantage of users and make billions by converting personal data into a cash cow.”

Facebook also tweeted from its official Twitter handle stating

“We’re reviewing the complaints & will have more to say soon,” the company said. “Years after the FTC cleared our acquisitions, the government now wants a do-over with no regard for the impact that precedent would have on the broader business community or the people who choose our products every day.”

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