damages

Just a quick post here, closing the loop on a story we've covered for a few years. You may recall that a couple with the surname Boring, sued Google, when they discovered their house was on Street View -- saying that it violated their privacy and "devalued" their property.

The court quickly tossed the lawsuit, noting that there was no evidence of damage from the photos, and Google offered easy-to-use tools to opt-out of Street View.

Earlier this year, we wrote about how Canadian spammer Adam Guerbuez had lost a lawsuit in the US brought by Facebook, alleging he spammed millions of accounts.

Among other things, the comments suggest that the government should only spend our tax dollars on IP enforcement when (1) the costs of enforcement do not exceed the damages caused by the infringement; (2) the infringement meets the standards for criminal conduct; and (3) the infringement involves clear legal violations of the law,

Groklaw: "Just to keep you in the loop, there is an update in the AutoZone docket, a note rescheduling oral argument on AutoZone's motion to dismiss in part SCO's claims for damages.

It will now be held on December 7 at 10 AM. Except of course that it probably won't..."

A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday vacated $358 million in damages awarded to Alcatel-Lucent after Microsoft was found to have infringed patented software technology.

InfoWorld: "Developers who 'knowingly' ship buggy software may be held liable for damages. That might be good for users -- but a sloppy set of guidelines could hurt open source"