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CEOs fail to reach a deal.
Samsung chief executive Choi Gee-sung and Apple CEO Tim Cook were to met this week after being ordered to do so by the Northern District Court of California. The ...
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date: 23 May 2012 23:05
July deals patent blow to Oracle.
The California jury found that Google had not violated patents held by Oracle in elements of its Android mobile operating system. The same jury had previously ...
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date: 23 May 2012 00:05
ITC judge sides with Apple, RIM.
Kodak sued both companies in January 2010, and sought an import ban on BlackBerrys and iPhones from the International Trade Commission (ITC). It accused both ...
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The case of Joel Tenenbaum continues.
Tenenbaum, the former doctorate student who was convicted of illegally sharing 30 tracks via P2P has had his Supreme Court petition declined, sending ...
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date: 21 May 2012 03:05
Court orders CEOs to "talk."
Apple chief executive Tim Cook and Samsung CEO Choi Gee-sun will meet in federal court on Monday for for court-supervised mediation efforts. Both have been directed ...
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Apple looks for another import ban.
The iPad-maker benefited on Tuesday then the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that a judge in a California district court was in error ...
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date: 20 May 2012 01:05
Government websites to miss government deadline.
All UK based websites have been given until May 26 to ensure that their visitors are able to give "informed consent" over cookies. Cookies ...
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date: 19 May 2012 03:05
Lawsuit targets Facebook's use of data.
It accuses Facebook of improper tracking activities, namely the continued tracking of users' Internet habits even when they were signed out of the ...
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date: 18 May 2012 04:05
Simon & Schuster have settled their long standing ebook price fixing case.
Earlier in the year, the US Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against Simon & Schuster and four other ...
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Earlier today, Iran's Foreign Ministry threatened to sue Google after the search giant removed the name "Persian Gulf" from its Google Maps service.
Says a Ministry spokesperson: "One of ...
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date: 15 May 2012 22:05
Appeals court sends case back to district court for further review.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that the judge in a California district court was in error when ...
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Bankruptcy follows legal tussle with EMI Group.
MP3Tunes is a music storage service headed up former MP3.com founder Michael Robertson. In 2007, it was sued by EMI Group and fourteen other ...
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Nokia doesn't expect dismissal to affect sales in Britain.
In June 2011, a High Court ruling in the UK found that Nokia was infringing a patent held by German firm IPCom. The Finnish mobile ...
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Dutch lead the EU in Net Neutrality.
The Netherlands has become the first country in the European Union to enshrine Net Neutrality into national law. Legislation had been introduced on the ...
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United States Magistrate Judge Gary R Brown laments "abusive litigation."
Brown criticised legal arguments that an IP address is sufficient for identifying an individual responsible for copyright ...
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date: 09 May 2012 04:05
California Judge throws out Proview iPad trademark suit.
The Chinese firm told a court in California that Apple deceived it by purchasing the rights to the iPad name through a special-purpose ...
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Judge slams "arrogant" Motorola and Microsoft.
Motorola had won the right to force Microsoft to recall and destroy Xbox consoles and Windows 7 copies in a patent licensing dispute. Though ...
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date: 08 May 2012 20:05
Apple looking to gain control over iPhone5.com domain.
The company previously has managed to secure rights to iphone4s.com, iphoneporn4s.com, iphonesex4s.com, iphonexxxforce.com, iphone4s.com ...
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date: 08 May 2012 20:05
Perfect 10, the adult publisher, has sued microblogging service Tumblr over alleged piracy.
The adult company is infamous for its attempts to sue major corporations for using their images ...
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Google plans to move for a mistrial after Jury fails to answer fair use question.
The case is being watched closely by Silicon Valley, as Oracle accuses Google of infringing copyrights it ...
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California resident Robert Herskowitz has sued Apple this week for punitive damages.
Apparently, the company double billed him for purchasing a song on iTunes and would not offer a refund.
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date: 05 May 2012 16:05
In 2010, Paul Ceglia claimed he was a 50 percent owner of Facebook, citing a contract signed between him and founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Paul Ceglia says he entered into a contract with Mark ...
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Nokia has been sued by angry investors this week over the sad turn of events in the company's fortunes over the past year.
Robbins, Geller, Rudman & Dowd, the New York-based law firm, is ...
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date: 03 May 2012 23:05
Judge reads certain portions of sealed 2011 Google document.
He had been quizzing attorneys of both Google and Oracle - which has accused Google of violating of copyright violations relating ...
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A German court has ruled today that Microsoft has infringed on a number of Motorola Mobility patents.
The ruling also demands Microsoft remove their Xbox 360 console and Windows 7 OS from ...
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Microsoft, who was long a supporter of the CISPA bill, has now done an about-face.
The software giant has said they can only support laws that allow "us to honor the privacy and security ...
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