A US appeal court threw a jury verdict worth more than $80 million against toy giant Mattel on January 24th. The sum was to be paid to MGA Entertainment following trade secret infringement claims relating to Bratz dolls. The US Circuit ...
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OAKLAND, CA (BRAIN) — A federal appeals court has affirmed Hydrapak's victory in a patent infringement lawsuit. Source Vagabond Systems had sued Hydrapak over alleged patent infringement involving the closure system on the brand's ...
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Late Apple chief Steve Jobs threatened to slap Palm with patent lawsuits to prevent the tech rival from hiring away its talent, according to court documents available on Wednesday. Unsealed copies of an email exchanged between Jobs and ...
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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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Reportedly, Italian Ilva, the major pipes producer in Italy, has announced that its biggest customer has just cancelled an order for 25,000 metric tons of pipes which has produced by Ilva Taranto. The main products are expected to be ...
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Amazon,Inc.;Leon Max,Inc.;Macy's,Inc.;and Sears,Roebuck and Co.and its Kmart subsidiaries,Kmart Corporation and Kmart,have agreed to pay penalties totaling$1.26 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated the ...
Computerworld - It has been a rough stretch for Itanium. HP and its customers were startled after Oracle in March, 2011 announced -- and without warning, according to court records -- its intent to discontinue software development on HP's ...
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Samsung Electronics has alleged that three recent products from Apple, including the iPad mini, infringe on its patents. The South Korean company said in a filing Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, ...
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A federal court decision on Monday to throw out a civil lawsuit against Infosys is a clear loss for the plaintiff, Jay Palmer. But it isn't much of a win for Infosys. The real problem for IT services firm Infosys is an investigation by ...
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U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday questioned the legitimacy of a law allowing a secretive government surveillance program and the assertion by a government lawyer that some groups couldn't challenge the law in court because they don't ...
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iMessage, the Apple messaging technology that the company has urged customers use to avoid an SMS spoofing bug, remains under a patent litigation cloud, with a trial slated for November. Last week, a researcher known for uncovering iPhone ...
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Computerworld - The same day it won a $368 million verdict in a patent infringement case against Apple, VirnetX filed a new lawsuit, alleging that the iPad Mini and iPhone 5 violate the same patents, according to court documents. The ...
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Lawyers for Megaupload filed another motion on Wednesday asking a federal court to dismiss its criminal case, continuing its argument that the company can't be served a summons since it was headquartered outside the U.S. Megaupload wants ...
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Two days ahead of the first post-trial hearing in the patent infringement fight between Apple and Samsung, a federal court judge has signaled to lawyers for both companies that she expects them to follow her instructions and work by her ...
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The stakes are high for both Apple and Samsung Electronics as they prepare to kick off their much-anticipated patent-infringement trial in front of a California jury on Monday. At the end of the proceedings, the 10-member jury, under the ...
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