A patent that Samsung considers essential to the 3G standardA was invalidated by the German Federal Patent Court that ruled in favor of Apple. Apple challenged the validity of the patent in suit that describes a technology that relates to ...
The 30 percent Minerals Resources Rent Tax (MRRT) in Australia requiring mining companies to pay tax when their annual profits reach $75 million, a measure designed so as not to burden small businesses, raised only A$126 million in the ...
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The High Court in Pietermaritzburg has ruled that small apparel manufacturing units, owned by families of Chinese and Taiwanese descent in Newcastle, in South Africa’s eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, are exempt from National ...
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A U.K. court has invalidated three Samsung patents that cover 3G technology in two rulings in cases between Samsung and Apple, according to court filings published on Thursday. Samsung alleged that Apple infringed on the patents with ...
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IDG News Service - A court in the U.K. has ordered key Internet service providers in the country to block three torrent sites on a complaint from music labels including EMI Records and Sony Music. The High Court of Justice, Chancery ...
Australia's High Court cleared Google on Wednesday of violating fair trade laws by allowing companies to publish advertisements containing their competitors' names, handing a defeat to the country's fair trade regulator. The High Court ...
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The Australian Competition Tribunal (ACT) has decided that the global mining giant Rio Tinto's Hamersley and Robe rail lines should not be opened up to third party access. According to Rio Tinto's statement, third party access to the ...
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Kumba final results for the year ended 31 December 2011.Record safety,exports,earnings and dividends. Commenting on the results,Kumba Iron Ore("Kumba")CEO Chris Griffith said:"Driven by export volume growth and a 26%increase in iron ...
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The Western Australia state government said that Ms Julia Gillard’s PM of Australian, tax on iron ore and coal company profits is illegal because it limits state governments’ ability to finance development. Western Australia ...
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Nestléhas won the latest legal spat in its chocolate war with Cadbury after it stopped its rival from copying the shape of its KitKat fingers. Rowntree launched the KitKat in the 1930s and Switzerland-based ...
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Nestlé registered the shape as far back as 2006 but Cadbury won an appeal against the move. However an appeal at the Community Trade Mark Office has ruled that the four-fingered, three-dimensional shape of the bar can be trademarked. ...
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Nestle has won the latest legal spat in its chocolate war with Cadbury after it stopped its rival from copying the shape of its KitKat fingers. Nestle was protecting KitKat's four-fingered design Rowntree launched the KitKat in the ...
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Welspun India Ltd., a part of the $ 3.5 billion Welspun Group announced that the merger scheme has come into effect. The consolidated results post merger, for FY 2012 has also been announced. The High Court of Gujarat at Ahmedabad by its ...
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A judge has approved the text of a letter that is to be sent to O2 customers suspected of illegally sharing adult films made by Ben Dover Productions. In March, the film company won a court order forcing O2 to identify the users of more ...
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Cambodian police have arrested one of the founders of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay,which claims 30 million users despite efforts by authorities in Sweden to shut it down and other countries to block access. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg ...