Tech Legal Week: Intel Sues Nvidia, No Calif. Video Game Law, More

Intel sues Nvidia — Intel is suing Nvidia over whether the graphic chip company can build and sell chipsets for Nehalem processors. Apparently the two companies have been going back and forth over this point for the last year. You’d think that a company dealing with antitrust charges in Europe might want to tread carefully. But then, losing the Apple notebook chipset business to Nvidia might have outweighed a political solution. [Source: Ars Technica, AppleInsider]

California video game law struck down — The 9th circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals struck down the California law that prevented the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger should have known that they’d be back. [Source: Associated Press]

Visa Capable suit now class action incapable — A judge decided that the lawsuit over Microsoft’s Vista Capable campaign no longer qualifies as a class action. [Source: CNET]

Search engine suing Google for high ad prices — TradeComet.com, which produces an online b-to-b directory, has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google because the search giant’s ad prices went up significantly and made it impossible for the former to advertise and compete. It would seem to be questionable, though when one outlet owns a vast majority of online ad placement, perhaps the question of what a viable alternative is comes into play. [Source: BusinessWeek]

But Google wins privacy suit — Make that one lawsuit up and one down. Google won a suit that a Pennsylvania couple brought, claiming a violation of their privacy because a Street View image of their house. [Source: ZDNet Between the Lines]

A lot of air, hot or otherwise — Falling into what seems like one of the more trivial legal battles the industry has seen in a while, two app vendors — Air-O-Matic and InfoMedia — that sell “fart” software for the iPhone are in a legal wrangle over whether the trademark one of them has on the phrase “pull my finger” is valid. [Source: Ars Technica]

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