The Brabham family has a won a three-year legal battle to protect their name from use by third parties without proper authorisation. The court battle started in 2009 when Franz Hilmer lodged an entry for the 2010 F1 season using the name ...
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Computerworld-A Maine construction company that sued its bank after losing$345,000 in an online banking heist has settled its dispute after a protracted legal battle that raised questions about the bank's responsibility in protecting ...
IDG News Service - A court-appointed damages expert who served in the intellectual-property suit Oracle lodged against Google over the Android mobile OS could receive nearly $2 million in compensation, according to court filings late ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard's bombshell revelation that it would take a $8.8 billion non-cash writedown after allegedly discovering major accounting fraud related to its Autonomy business unit has rocked the tech world. But the ...
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Xerox is being sued by systems integrator CedarCrestone over payments related to an Oracle PeopleSoft upgrade at insurer CIGNA. CedarCrestone is looking to recover about $1.8 million it says Xerox still owes it, according to the lawsuit, ...
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The UK Court of Appeal has ordered Apple to edit the statement acknowledging that Samsung did not infringe Apple's tablet design intellectual property and to publish it directly on its UK home page. It must, furthermore, publish the ...
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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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A US judge has ordered Apple to disclose details of its patent-sharing deal with HTC to rival Samsung. Earlier this month, Apple and HTC signed a 10-year licence agreement, but did not disclose the details. Samsung, which is involved in ...
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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, best known for their epic legal battle with Mark Zuckerberg over ownership rights to Facebook, have reportedly invested $1 million in a new social network aimed at the financial community, called SumZero. ...
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Barely two weeks after Lynas (ASX:LYC) began production at its Malaysian processing plant in the face of protests and after a protracted legal battle, the Australian rare earths miner is once again in crisis. The company's shares – ...
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Hewlett-Packard has had some bad quarters in its 73 years, but perhaps none as bad as its latest -- when it reported a loss of $8.9 billion on sales that fell 5% to $29.7 billion. The poor third-quarter results produced little drama on ...
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A ban on imports of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus into the U.S. was reversed by a U.S. appeals court Tuesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed an earlier ruling by Judge Lucy Koh in the U.S. District Court for the ...
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HP is continuing to suffer as a result of Oracle dropping Itanium support while Dell's enterprise strategy gains momentum, according to the latest market data from Gartner. The company posted worldwide server supplier revenue of $3.7bn, ...
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APPLE'S pinch-to-zoom technology has been ruled as not original enough to be worthy of a patent. A filing in a high-stakes legal battle between Samsung and Apple revealed that a"pinch-to-zoom"patent central to the case had been deemed ...
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LEGO has won a legal battle against Belgian company TKS which produces the Ice Watch. The Brussels Court of Appeal has issued a pan-European injunction against Ice Watch packaging (pictured), furniture and other items, after it found the ...
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