Ryanair DAC v. Booking Holdings Inc. et al

  1. January 23, 2025

    Ryanair's 'Piracy' Jury Win Over Booking.com Gets Undone

    A federal judge has decided that Ryanair failed to show that Booking.com made enough money scraping flight data from the discount Irish airline to justify a verdict in its favor, overturning a jury verdict out of Delaware last year that found the website broke computer fraud laws.

  2. July 19, 2024

    Jury Finds Booking.com Owes Ryanair $5K For Data Scraping

    Irish discount airline Ryanair has convinced a Delaware federal jury to find that online travel website giant Booking.com should pay $5,000 for using screen scraping software in a way that ran afoul of computer fraud laws, which the airline likened to "internet piracy."

  3. July 11, 2024

    IP Forecast: Napa Winery's Ex-Atty Wants Another Trial

    A Texas lawyer plans to tell an appeals court why he should receive another trial in a trademark case from a Napa Valley winery, a former client that he claims sold off a "wildly successful California cult wine" out from under him.

  4. April 10, 2023

    Booking.com Counterclaims OK'd In Airline Site Scraping Suit

    A Delaware federal judge has decided against dropping most of an online travel agency's counterclaims against an Irish airline, citing Booking.com's allegation that Ryanair sent website patrons emails that were bad for business.

  5. January 17, 2023

    Ryanair Says Emails To Clients Didn't Defame Booking.com

    Ryanair did not defame an online travel agency when it told customers that they should only buy tickets directly from the Irish airline's official website and not through "unauthorized" intermediaries, according to a brief filed in the District of Delaware that seeks to toss Booking.com's allegations from a broader lawsuit.

  6. October 25, 2022

    Booking.com Must Keep Fighting Ryanair's Data Scraping Suit

    A judge on Monday refused to throw out the bulk of budget Irish airline Ryanair's Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claims against Booking.com in Delaware federal court, finding that Ryanair has plausibly alleged that the travel company scrapes its data in violation of the law.