Back in June I wrote about a ruling against Sanford Wallace, who is one of the most well known spammers. As of today, the case as been settled and “California awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against Sanford Wallace”. Additionally, Wallace now faces possible jail time. Despite the massive settlement, it’s unlikely Wallace will ever show up in California again, or pay the settlement.
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Leader Technologies, an Ohio-based “intellectual capital company”, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook. The company claims that Facebook has infringed on one of their patents which relates generally “to a method and system for the management and storage of electronic information.” Sounds like a fairly broad patent which the company simply uses to obtain recurring revenue from large digital companies.
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Last week Law.com published an article highlighting a lawsuit filed by Facebook’s lawyers “against Adam Guerbuez, accusing the Canadian man of hijacking users’ accounts, impersonating them to send more than 4 million messages in March and April that market ‘offensive’ and ‘embarrassing’ products such as marijuana and penis enlargement pills.”
