Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has gotten involved in a patent infringement with Boston University in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Boston University alleges that Samsung “regularly and deliberately” ...
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The U.S. Congress needs to shut down so-called patent trolls whose infringement lawsuits are diverting company resources from hiring and research, a group of technology companies told lawmakers Thursday. Representatives of Cisco Systems, ...
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LED lighting needs to have a unified standard, said Horng-Ching Hsiao, professor at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and a member of The Illuminating Engineering Society of Taiwan. Hsiao noted that in recent years, the ...
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The National E-Health Transition Authority has been accused of dragging its feet as a US firm tries to conclude its investigation into alleged patent infringements by the agency. Early last month, MyMedicalRecords.com, a subsidiary of ...
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Google has issued a lawsuit against BT in both the US and the UK over what it claims is an infringement of its patents. In 2011, BT launched its own legal action against Google for infringing six of its patents in a US court in Delaware. ...
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Kim Dotcom, the man behind the now defunct file-sharing site Megaupload, has launched a new service called Mega. Like Megaupload, which was shut down following polie raids on Dotcom's New Zealand mansion in January 2012, Mega is a web ...
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Sergei Kuznetsov has been CEO of both Severstal International and Severstal North America since July 2009.He joined Severstal in 2002 to head the business planning group created to acquire foreign assets and develop international ...
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IDG News Service - The foreman of the jury that recently handed Apple a $1 billion patent victory over Samsung Electronics was untruthful and biased, the South Korean company alleged in a filing with a U.S. court. Samsung wants a retrial of ...
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IDG News Service - Swedish police confiscated three servers allegedly connected to copyright infringements during a raid on PRQ, a hosting service that was once home to The Pirate Bay. The main target was the Swedish torrent site ...
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The European Parliament has rejected the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta), blocking its route to becoming law in European Union member states. The vote is the first time the body has exercised its Lisbon Treaty ...
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HTC claimed a patent victory over Apple in the latest legal battle in the ongoing smartphone patent turf war. In a London court yesterday the judge ruled that HTC had not infringed four technologies that Apple had claimed as its own and ...
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The general availability of Windows Server 2012 today will see Microsoft’s strongest push yet to target VMware users. Microsoft describes the new operating system (OS) – an update to the three-year-old Windows Server 2008 OS ...
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Apple and Samsung's ongoing legal drama, which is currently unfolding in federal court in San Jose, California, has seen Apple produce an accountant who, the company says, has calculated that Samsung owes it $2.75bn (£1.75bn) in ...
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Apple has had its plea for a ban on sales of Samsung's tablets and smartphones in the US rejected, after a California judge said "only a small fraction" of Samsung's products are covered by Apple patents. "Though Apple does have some ...
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Apple has had its plea for a ban on sales of Samsung's tablets and smartphones in the US rejected, after a California judge said "only a small fraction" of Samsung's products are covered by Apple patents. "Though Apple does have some ...
Tags: Sales Ban, Apple, Samsung, tablets, smartphones, patents