A secretive U.S. spy court has ruled again that the National Security Agency can keep collecting every American's telephone records every day, in the midst of dueling decisions in two other federal courts about whether the surveillance ...
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Apple has asked a federal judge to bar US sales of Samsung smartphones and tablet computers in the blockbuster patent case involving the two electronics giants. In a court filing in California, Apple said the smartphones and tablets were ...
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With another year coming to a close, we look back with some relief that freight demand showed steady growth despite endless obstacles coming from Washington, D.C. As we detail throughout this issue, most economic indicators remained ...
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Oracle's copyright case against Google's Android OS appeared to gain new life this week after a federal appeals court judge poked holes in Google's defence. A U.S. District Court judge in California ruled last year that Oracle's Java APIs ...
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A jury on Thursday ordered Samsung Electronics to pay Apple $290 million for copying features of the iPhone and iPad. That was in addition to $640 million the South Korea-based Samsung already owed Apple from a ...
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In August, Medtronic was forced to remove its CoreValve percutaneuous heart valves from the market in Germany in light of a ruling that found that the device infringed on patents held by Edwards Lifesciences. A German appeals court, ...
Apple switched on its push email services for iOS devices in Germany again after posting a bond of €100 million (US$135 million). In February 2012, Apple was forced to switch off push email services for iOS devices in Germany after ...
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A U.S. appeals court upheld a district court decision that Google’s collection of data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks under its Street View program is not exempt from federal wiretap laws. Google’s data collection does not ...
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Warrants are not required by the U.S. government to access historical cell site information, an appeals court ruled in an order. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects only reasonable expectations of privacy, the U.S. ...
A court's decision not to prevent multiple Samsung handsets from being sold in the U.S. despite their being found to infringe Apple patents will go before an appeal's court in early August. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal ...
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Please send a thank you note to Andrew Kimbrell, executive director, The Center for Food Safety, 660 Pennsylvania Ave. SE #302, Washington, D.C. 20003. Thank him for the opportunity to spend far more money than necessary to control weeds ...
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An appeals court in Mexico has overturned an approximately US$2.7 billion judgment against Yahoo and Yahoo Mexico in a breach-of-contract suit concerning online directories. Yahoo announced on Thursday it had won its appeal of the case in ...
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A U.S. appeals court has ruled that an abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system, signaling what one judge described as the "death" of software and business method patents. The U.S. Court of Appeals ...
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An appeals court has rejected SAP's attempt to overturn a $345 million judgment awarded to Versata Software, which had brought a patent-infringement case against the software maker. "Sufficient evidence supports the jury's verdict," Chief ...
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A patent that Motorola Mobility used to force Apple to turn off its iCloud push mail service in Germany is likely to be invalid, the Higher Regional Court in Karlsruhe said on Wednesday -- but the ban will not be lifted, a court spokeswoman ...
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