Indicted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom launched a new file-sharing website today, promising users amped-up privacy levels in a defiant move against the US prosecutors who accuse him of facilitating massive online piracy. The colourful ...
News that Flowers Food has emerged as the "stalking horse" bidder for various Hostess Brands bread brands in the US caught our attention this week. Meanwhile, an entirely different kind of horse got tongues wagging on this side of the pond ...
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A court in California has allowed Apple and Samsung Electronics to add recent products from both companies in a patent infringement lawsuit. Apple was also allowed to drop its bid to include Samsung's Galaxy S III Mini among infringing ...
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A federal judge in California has ordered Apple and Amazon.com to sit down and attempt to settle a lawsuit between them over Amazon's use of the "Appstore" name for its online application marketplace. U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth ...
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Samsung Electronics' Galaxy tablets do not infringe on an Apple design right, the District Court of The Hague ruled Wednesday in response to a request by Samsung. At issue was Apple's registration of a rectangular tablet with rounded ...
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The District Court of The Hague ruled on Wednesday that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets do not infringe on an Apple design right, following a request by the Korean electronics giant. At issue was Apple’s registration of a rectangular ...
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British Telecom has sued 14 mobile operators because of a basic patent infringement. The lawsuit was submitted by Steelhead Licensing, LLC Company on January 4, 2013. British Telecom said, it had the patents of two technologies. One is a ...
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The U.S. Department of Justice did not mislead a court and attempt to entrap file storage site Megaupload on copyright infringement charges, the agency said in a new filing in the case. Megaupload's charges that the DOJ conspired to ...
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IDG News Service - Ericsson has agreed to transfer 1,922 patents and 263 patent applications to Unwired Planet in return for a share in ongoing revenue from the patents. The transfer includes 753 U.S. patents related to 2G, 3G and LTE ...
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Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson has sold a portfolio of patents and patent applications to intellectual property company Unwired Planet. The company, which claims to be the "inventor of the mobile internet", was known as Openwave back in ...
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Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson has sold a portfolio of patents and patent applications to intellectual property company Unwired Planet. The company, which claims to be the "inventor of the mobile internet", was known as Openwave back ...
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Motorola Mobility has withdrawn its claims with regard to its standard-essential patents in its complaint against Microsoft's Xbox before the U.S. International Trade Commission. The move comes after Microsoft told the ITC in a filing ...
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Ten years ago Monday, Apple co-founder and then-CEO Steve Jobs introduced Apple's first, and so far only, browser for OS X, according to the former head of the Safari team. Don Melton, who retired last year as Apple's director of ...
A Chinese man has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to selling pirated software used in defense, space and other industries with a retail value of more than US$100 million. Xiang Li, 36, and a partner sold cracked copies of software from ...
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A Chinese man has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to selling pirated software used in defence, space and other industries with a retail value of more than US$100 million. Xiang Li, 36, and a partner sold cracked copies of software from ...
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