Showing posts with label court. Show all posts
Showing posts with label court. Show all posts

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Google, Intel, Apple, Adove employees "no-poach" settlement rejected by judge


In a court ruling, the judge rejected the quadruple's settlement to pay $320 million to the employees that were hurt by the companies joined "no-poach" alliance, saying it should be higher at a minimum of $380 million.

 Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe all formed a pact, which was acclaimed in the lawsuit and proved to be correct, so none of these companies hired any employees who work for one of the other three. That has caused sort of a quad-opoly, allowing the employers to pay lower than they might have had there been a competition over the employees.

 As a result of the lawsuit, which represents 60,000 Silicon Valley employees the companies were required to settle the matter with the employees who were hurt by the agreements, and hence came the settlement, which judge Lucy Koh ruled was too low, requiring the companies to up their bid by $60 million.
The quadruple's deal was revealed by email conversations which were uncovered following the lawsuits, in which the scandal was discovered. One of the causes of the companies' agreement was the scrapping of plans to build a Google center in Paris.

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Motorola Germany Motorola's ban in Germany to be lifted

After the recent court-ruling, which banned Motorola from selling its Moto X and Moto G devices in Germany, a recent workaround by Motorola might upturn that.

As you might know,  the German court ruled Motorola's infringement on German laser-specialist firm LPKF's patent, which patented the process by which an antenna is placed on to a curved plastic design. Now, although that