July 24, 2017
A California federal jury largely cleared Orange SA in a intellectual property and computer fraud lawsuit on Monday, finding it didn't misappropriate the defunct startup Telesocial Inc.'s trade secrets and that it owed just $1 for breaching Telesocial's terms of use.
July 21, 2017
An attorney for defunct startup Telesocial Inc. told a California federal jury during closing arguments Friday that Orange SA destroyed the young company by stealing its trade secrets instead of buying its communications technology, while Orange's attorneys denied responsibility for Telesocial's failure and argued no theft occurred.
July 17, 2017
An expert witness for defunct startup Telesocial Inc. told a California federal jury Monday that Orange SA's technology enabling users to call friends through social media sites used the same complicated, two-server model developed by Telesocial, adding that other approaches would have been "much easier to implement."
July 10, 2017
A now-defunct San Francisco-based startup told a California federal jury during the first day of trial Monday that Orange SA hacked its proprietary phone application to steal its technology allowing users to call friends through social media sites without their phone numbers, weeks before the French telecom giant launched a similar service with Facebook.