April 22, 2020
A California federal judge has denied a cybersecurity standards group's bid for attorney fees and costs after quality testing company NSS Labs dropped its antitrust suit against the group and its members Symantec Corp. and ESET LLC.
April 02, 2020
A California federal judge weighing a cybersecurity standards group's bid for attorney fees against a quality testing company that ultimately dropped an antitrust suit against it questioned on Thursday whether California precedent required her to dismiss the fee bid or whether Ninth Circuit rules require letting the case proceed.
December 19, 2019
A cybersecurity standards group is demanding attorney fees for having to defend itself against an antitrust lawsuit brought but ultimately dropped by quality testing company NSS Labs, telling a California federal judge that the action "never should have been filed."
December 04, 2019
NSS Labs called off its antitrust action against a cybersecurity standards development group and members Symantec Corp. and ESET LLC on Tuesday, stating that the organization has made positive steps to remedy alleged imbalances.
October 25, 2019
Symantec and a cybersecurity standards development group urged a California federal judge to nix a software lab's renewed boycott claims against them, arguing that there's nothing new in the allegations to save the suit.
August 14, 2019
Symantec and a cybersecurity standards development group have ducked a software lab's boycott claims after a California federal judge concluded the suit couldn't get around the possibility that anti-malware testing standards at the heart of the suit had legitimate justifications.
July 09, 2019
The U.S. Department of Justice's interpretation of antitrust enforcement safeguards for standard-setting organizations would completely hobble those protections, a cybersecurity standards development group told a California federal judge as it tries to duck a software lab's boycott claims.
June 27, 2019
The U.S. Department of Justice thinks it would be premature to throw out a software lab's antitrust claims against a cybersecurity standards-setting organization, as the agency told a California federal court Wednesday that an exemption the organization is claiming may not apply.
November 27, 2018
Symantec Corp. on Monday urged a California federal judge to toss an antitrust suit accusing it and other cybersecurity firms of conspiring to boycott a software lab because its testing would reveal serious flaws in their own products.