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| Performance Pricing, Inc. v. Google Inc. et al | September 27, 2007 | July 1, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Performance Pricing, Inc. sued Google Inc., AOL LLC, Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. for infringing U.S. Patent No. 6,978,253 entitled "Systems and Methods for Transacting Business Over a Global Communications Network such as the Internet." |
| Aloft Media, LLC v. Yahoo! Inc. et al | December 30, 2008 | June 30, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Aloft Media, LLC alleged that Defendants Yahoo!, Inc., Google, Inc. and AOL LLC infringed on U.S. Patent No. 7,472,351 entitled "Mobile E-Mail Manager Interface with Integrated Instant Messaging and Phone Call Initiator Feature." |
| PA Advisors, LLC v. Google Inc. et al | November 2, 2007 | June 29, 2009 |
| Plaintiff PA Advisors, LLC allege that Defendants infringed no U.S. Patent No. 6,199,067 entitled "System and Method for Generating Personalized User Profiles and for Utilizing the Generated User Profiles to Perform Adaptive Internet Searches." |
| Function Media, L.L.C. v. Google, Inc. et al | July 3, 2007 | June 26, 2009 |
| Plaintiff alleges that Google's AdSense and AdWords technologies, Google Print Ads, and Yahoo's Publisher and Content Match technologies infringe on its patents. |
| Software Rights Archive, LLC v. Google Inc. et al | November 21, 2007 | June 24, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Software Rights Archive, LLC alleges that Defendants Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., IAC Search & Media, Inc., AOL LLC and Lycos, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,544,352 entitled "Method and Apparatus for Indexing, Searching and Displaying Data." |
| Sidell v. Structured Settlement Investments, LP et al | May 8, 2008 | June 19, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Scott Sidell alleged that Defendant Structured Settlement Investments, LP, Plaintiff Funding Holding, Inc. d/b/a LawCash, Dennis Shields, Harvey Hirschfeld, Richard Palma and Scott Yucht accessed his private Yahoo e-mail account and monitored his e-mail communications. |
| Polaris IP, LLC v. Google Inc. et al | August 27, 2007 | June 16, 2009 |
| Polaris IP, LLC sued Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com Inc., A9.com, Inc., Borders, Inc., Borders Group Inc., AOL LLC, America Online, Inc., IAC/InteractiveCorp., and IAC Search and Media, Inc. for patent infringement involving U.S. Patent No. 6,411,947 entitled "Automatic Message Interpretation and Routing System." Plaintiff alleges that defendants are infringing on the patent by implementing various websites that comprise interpreting electronic messages with rule base and case base knowledge engines. |
| Google Inc. et al v. Egger et al | February 11, 2009 | June 10, 2009 |
| Google Inc. et al v. Egger et al | July 1, 2008 | May 28, 2009 |
| Plaintiffs Google Inc., AOL LLC, Yahoo! Inc., IAC Search & Media, Inc. and Lycos, Inc. seek a declaratory judgment that they have not infringed U.S. Patent Nos. 5,544,352, 5,832,494 and 6,233,571 (Method and Apparatus for Indexing, Searching and Displaying Data), that such patents are invalid, and that Defendants L. Daniel Egger, Software Rights Archive, LLC and Site Technologies, Inc. do not own the patents. |
| American Airlines, Inc. v. Yahoo! Inc. et al | October 17, 2008 | May 12, 2009 |
| Plaintiff American Airlines Inc. alleged that Defendants Yahoo! Inc. and Overture Services, Inc. d/b/a Yahoo! Search Marketing sold to third parties the right to use the trademarks and service marks of American Airlines as keywords that trigger the appearance of paid advertisements. |
| Software Rights Archive, LLC v. Google Inc. et al | January 20, 2009 | April 29, 2009 |
| Yahoo! Inc. v. American Airlines, Inc. | November 21, 2008 | March 16, 2009 |
| PARKER v. YAHOO!, INC. et al | July 13, 2007 | February 10, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Gordon Roy Parker alleged that Defendants Yahoo!, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation infringed on Plaintiff's registered works--Outfoxing the Foxes, 29 Reasons Not to Be a Nice Guy and Why Hotties Choose Losers--by copying, storing and displaying his works within its cache. |
| Stragent, LLC v. Nokia Inc. et al | July 29, 2008 | July 30, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Stragent, LLC alleged that Defendants Nokia, Inc., Nokia Corporation, Motorola, Inc., Palm, Inc., Research in Motion, Ltd., Research in Motion Corporation, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Sony Ericcson Mobile Communications (USA) Inc., American Online, Inc., AOL LLC, AT&T, Inc., Google, Inc., Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo!, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 6,665,722 entitled "Store-and-forward packet radio system and method." |
| Yahoo! Inc. v. Travelcomm Industries, Inc. et al | July 29, 2008 | July 30, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Yahoo! Inc. alleged that Defendants Travelcomm Industries, Inc. d/b/a Travelcomm, Inc., Travelcom, Inc., Telecom Industries, Inc. Cancunbestfares.com, Vacations Inc., I.R.R., Inc., Island Reef Resorts d/b/a Island Reefs Resort, Inc., Rigoberto Sotolongo, Peter Sotolongo a/k/a Pedro Sotolongo, Daniel Marshall and Joe Fontina had masqueraded as Yahoo! for the purpose of deceiving consumers by disseminating unsolicited facsimiles that imitate the YAHOO! Travel website for the advertisement of Defendants' travel packages when Defendants have no affiliation or connection with Yahoo!. |
| International Information Systems Security Certifications Consortium v. Degraphenreed et al | November 16, 2007 | July 16, 2008 |
| Plaintiff International Information Systems Security Certifications Consortium sued Defendants Miko Degraphenreed, Degrapheinread Information Systems Security Corporation, Google, Incorporated and Yahoo!, Incorporated for trademark infringement, unfair competition, false designation of origin, dilution, and deceptive trade practice, misappropriation and unjust enrichment. Plaintiff alleges that Defendants infringed and violated (ISC2)'s rights to its long-standing and valuable registered mark CISSP®. |
| Bascom Global Internet Services, Inc. v. AOL LLC et al | April 30, 2008 | April 30, 2008 |
| Plaintiff BASCOM Global Internet Services, Inc. alleged that Defendants AOL LLC and Yahoo! Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,987,606 entitled "Method and System for Content Filtering Information Retrieved from an Internet Computer Network." |
| Beneficial Innovations, Inc. v. AOL, LLC. et al | December 20, 2007 | February 11, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Beneficial Innovations, Inc. alleges that Defendants infringed on U.S. Patent Nos. 6,712,702 entitled "Method and System for Playing Games on a Network" and 6,183,336 entitled "Network Gaming System." |
| Louden v. Yahoo!, Inc. | October 1, 2007 | January 4, 2008 |
| Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) claim by artist who claims her artwork "Reflecting Tips, 2001" was desecrated when grounds crew used weed whackers on the lawn the art was situated on. |
| Hutchison et al v. AT&T Internet Services, Inc. et al | November 15, 2007 | November 15, 2007 |
| Plaintiff sued Defendants AT&T Internet Services, Inc. f/k/a SBC Internet Services, Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. for charging customers an early termination fee when customers cancel defendants' services prior to the end of their service agreement with defendants. |
| Spark Network Services, Inc. v. Match.Com, LP et al | January 30, 2007 | November 15, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Spark Network Services, Inc. alleged that defendants Match.com, LP, eHarmony.com, Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 6,272,467 B1 entitled "System for Data Collection and Matching Compatible Profiles." |
| Xiaoning et al v. Yahoo! Inc, et al | April 18, 2007 | November 13, 2007 |
| Plaintiff, a citizen and resident of China, advocated for democratic reform within the country. Plaintiff alleges that he was arrested, incarcerated and tortured after Defendants provided Chinese officials with access to his private e-mail records, copies of e-mail messages, e-mail addresses, user ID numbers and other identifying information. |
| Paid Search Engine Tools, LLC v. Yahoo! Inc. | September 13, 2007 | November 8, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Paid Search Engine Tools, LLC alleged that defendant Yahoo! Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 7,043,450 entitled "Paid Search Engine Bid Management." |
| PartsRiver, Inc. v. Shopzilla, Inc. et al | October 3, 2007 | October 12, 2007 |
| Plaintiff PartsRiver, Inc. alleged that defendants Shopzilla, Inc., ValueClick, Inc., Pricerunner Limited, Yahoo! Inc., PriceGrabber.com, Inc., eBay, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation infringed U.S. Patent No. 6,275,821 entitled "Method and System for Executing a Guided Parametric Search." |
| FotoMedia Technologies, LLC v. AOL, LLC. et al | June 18, 2007 | October 9, 2007 |
| Plaintiff FotoMedia Technologies, LLC alleged that AOL LLC, American Online, Inc., PhotoBucket.com, Inc., Shutterfly, Inc., CNET Networks, Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 6,018,774 entitled "Method and System for Creating Messages Including Image Information," 6,542,936 B1 entitled "System for Creating Messages Including Image Information," and 6,871,231 B2 entitled "Role-Based Access to Image Metadata." |
| Gogo Tribe v. Google Corp Clerk shall not accept complaints or petitions from Denis Maringo until sanction is paid and he presents written permission from a judicial officer in SDTX Houston, per order #4. | September 18, 2007 | September 26, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Denis Marengo is an immigration detainee at the CCA Houston Processing Center who states that he is being detained for political reasons and is barred from proceeding pro se. Nevertheless, he proceeds in a representative capacity on behalf of the Gogo and Yao tribes of Tanzania and alleges that Google and Yahoo misappropriated their names, respectively, without acknowledgment or compensation. Plaintiff asserts that he has standing to sue on the tribes' behalf because the mother of his paternal grandfather (a/k/a great-grandmother) was Gogo and the grandmother of his maternal grandmother (a/k/a great-great-grandmother) was Yao. |
| Murawski v. New York State Board of Elections et al | November 6, 2006 | September 26, 2007 |
| Plaintiff William E. Murawski sued defendants the New York State Board of Elections and the New York City Board of Elections seeking to enjoin the general election held on November 7, 2006 because the State Board of Election refused to place his name on the ballot as a gubernatorial candidate. Plaintiff later sought a declaration that the New York State Election Law was largely unconstitutional and added former governor George Pataki, former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, former attorney general Eliot Spitzer, mayor Michael Bloomberg as defendants. Plaintiff also sued IAC/Interactive Corp., Ronald M. Gunzberger, and Yahoo! Inc. because they undermined his master election plan to be elected governor. Plaintiff alleged that defendant Ronald Gunzburger declined to list plaintiff on his website, http://Politics1.com, and also that Gunzberger defamed him by placing plaintiff's name in a list directly below a member of the Communist Party. Plaintiff alleged that Ask.com erroneously showed plaintiff to be associated with the Communist Party as a result of the alleged statement on the Politics1.com website, and that defendant Yahoo! Inc. refused to permit him to post e-mail messages to various Yahoo! Groups, thus denying him access to millions of voters. |
| Yahoo Inc. v. Compression Labs Inc. et al | March 25, 2005 | June 5, 2007 |
| Langdon v. Google Inc. et al | May 17, 2006 | June 1, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Christopher Langdon complains that defendants Google, Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. declined to accept advertising from plaintiff for his websites www.ncjusticefraud.com and www.chinaisevil.com. |
| LASSOFF v. GOOGLE, INC. | August 10, 2006 | May 17, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Samuel Lassoff sued defendants Google, Inc., Yahoo!, Inc. and IAC Interactive Corporation for fraud, breach of contract, negligence, unjust enrichment, and unfair business practices. Plaintiff Samuel Lassoff alleges that defendants engaged in a scheme to hide its negligent handling of plaintiff's advertising account and never warned plaintiffs of fraudulent clicks or made any recovery efforts for the plaintiffs. |
| Site Pro-1, Inc. v. Better Metal, LLC | December 6, 2006 | May 14, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Site Pro-1, Inc. alleges that Defendant Better Metal, LLC placed SitePro1's SITE PRO 1 trademark in the metadata and/or meta tags of its www.bettermetal.com web site and/or improperly included SitePro1's SITE PRO 1 trademark in a search engine algorithm utilized by the Yahoo! search engine. |
| Barnes v. Yahoo, Inc. | June 23, 2005 | January 10, 2006 |
| Plaintiff Cecilia Barnes alleged that she was sexually harassed by strange men because her ex-boyfriend posted unauthorized profiles and nude pictures of her on Yahoo!. |
| PartsRiver, Inc. v. Shopzilla, Inc. et al | February 25, 2009 | |
| Stayart v. Yahoo! Inc et al | February 5, 2009 | |
| Search Warrant E-mail Account laougine@yahoo.com, Hosted by Yahoo! Incorporated, 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, California USA | January 29, 2009 | |
| IconFind v. Yahoo! | January 13, 2009 | |
| Quito Enterprises, LLC v. Netflix, Inc. et al | December 26, 2008 | |
| Congregation Beth Aaron et al v. Yang et al | December 3, 2008 | |
| Hendricks v. Spangler et al | October 29, 2008 | |
| Plaintiff David S. Hendricks d/b/a Clipart deSIGN USA alleged that Defendants Dan Spangler and Cathy Davis willfully infringed Plaintiff's copyrights, by copying, displaying, selling, and distributing copies of Plaintiff's vector images through Defendants Yahoo! Inc. and eBay Inc. |
| SimpleAir Holdings, Inc. v. clearTXT, Inc. et al | July 28, 2008 | |
| Plaintiff SimpleAir Holdings, Inc. alleged that Defendants clearTXT, Inc., Mobile MEdia Technologies, LLC and Yahoo! Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 7,035,914 entitled "System and Method for Transmission of Data." |
| Aloft Media LLC v. Yahoo!, Inc. et al | June 25, 2008 | |
| Plaintiff Aloft Media, LLC alleges that Defendants Yahoo!, Inc., AT&T, Inc. and AOL LLC infringed on U.S. Patent No. 7,117,443 entitled "Network Browser Graphical User Interface for Managing Web Content," U.S. Patent No. 7,194,691 entitled "Network Browser Window with Adjacent Identifier Selector Interface for Storing Web Content." The allegedly infringing products include the AT&T Yahoo! Browser and the AOL Explorer Version 1.5. |
| Manfredonia v. YAHOO!, Inc. | June 17, 2008 | |
| Yahoo! Inc. v. XYZ Companies et al | May 16, 2008 | |
| Plaintiff Yahoo! alleges that defendants disseminated mass electronic mail messages claiming that the recipient had won a lottery, prize or other award from Yahoo! Defendants then allegedly lured recipients into sending personal information to them, which was used to access bank accounts and credit cards, apply for credit cards or loans, and create fraudulent identification documents. Defendants also duped the recipients into sending them money for processing and mailing charges. |
| Watkins v. Semel et al | May 7, 2008 | |
| Plaintiff alleges that Yahoo! insiders were boasting about the prospects of the Company and telling investors that the Company would be repurchasing the stock because it was undervalued while they were independently selling their own stock. |
| Hacker v. Yahoo! Inc. et al | April 23, 2008 | |
| Bigreds.com Inc. et al v. Goto Inc. Overture Services Ltd. et al | April 2, 2008 | |
| Cunzhu et al v. Yahoo Inc. et al | February 22, 2008 | |
| Plaintiffs Cunzhu Zheng and Guo Quan allege that Defendants Yahoo! Inc. and Yahoo! Hong Kong, Ltd. provided Chinese officials with access to plaintiffs' email account, thereby exposing Plaintiffs to persecution and torture by the Chinese government because Plaintiffs have advocated for democracy and multi-party government in China. |
| Grisoft,s.r.o. v. Yahoo Inc. | December 13, 2007 | |
| Girafa.com Inc. v. Amazon Web Services LLC et al | December 5, 2007 | |
| Plaintiff Girafa.com, Inc. alleges that Defendants Amazon Web Services LLC, Amazon.com, Inc., Alexa Internet, Inc., IAC Search & Media, Inc., Snap Technologies, Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Smartdevil Inc., Exalead, Inc. and Exalead S.A. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 6,864,904 entitled "Framework for Providing Visual Context to WWW Hyperlinks." The patent covers a method and system for displaying an image of a website when hovering over a hyperlink. |
| Gates v. Starbucks Corporation et al | July 9, 2007 | |
