Microsoft on Monday said it will appeal a trademark lawsuit over its SkyDrive cloud storage service it lost to the British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) Group. BSkyB sued Microsoft in order to prevent Microsoft from using "SkyDrive" as the ...
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Web content filtering company Netsweeper has supplied its products to Pakistan, even as some top IT companies have refused to supply gear for a controversial filtering project, a Canadian research group has disclosed. The new report ...
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Apple has to pay out $6.5 million in home copying levies that it's collected but failed to deliver to the appropriate agency, the Paris High Court ruled on Friday. Apple and other companies that sell tablet computers must by law pay a ...
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Material irrelevant to police investigation that was seized from Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three associates in January 2012 will have to be returned to them, a court in New Zealand has ruled. The police are also required to ...
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A proposal in Taiwan to enforce copyright laws by blocking access to top piracy sites is facing concerns that the measures could impinge on Internet freedoms on the island. The intellectual property office of Taiwan's Ministry of Economic ...
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The Bombay High Court has quashed the plea filed by Sanofi saying 'superior' packaging cannot be justified for hiking prices of drugs. According to the court order, the authority for fixing the prices of drugs in the country will remain ...
A patent that Samsung considers essential to the 3G standardA was invalidated by the German Federal Patent Court that ruled in favor of Apple. Apple challenged the validity of the patent in suit that describes a technology that relates to ...
On March 19, 2013, Nichia has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Tokyo District Court to enjoin Tsannkuen Japan (Sankun Nihon Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, hereinafter “Tsann Kuen”), a subsidiary of a Taiwanese company, from ...
Tags: LED products, LED, LED Desk Lamps
The 30 percent Minerals Resources Rent Tax (MRRT) in Australia requiring mining companies to pay tax when their annual profits reach $75 million, a measure designed so as not to burden small businesses, raised only A$126 million in the ...
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ArcelorMittal South Africa, a local unit of global steelmaking giant ArcelorMittal, and South Africa's largest iron ore producer Kumba Iron Ore have indicated that they plan to start arbitration over iron ore deliveries by the last quarter ...
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PIQUED by what he called the Inspector-General of Police’s (IGP) insistence on the ban against the use of tinted glass vehicles, a Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Malachy Ugwummadu, has written to IGP, Mohammed Abubakar against his ...
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Ericsson has sued Indian mobile handset vendor Micromax in an Indian court, alleging infringement of eight of its patents without payment. The dispute appears to be primarily over the royalty payments to be paid by Micromax to Ericsson ...
Ericsson has sued Indian mobile handset vendor Micromax in an Indian court, alleging infringement of eight of its patents without payment of any consideration. The dispute appears to be primarily over the royalty payments to be paid by ...
The French Jewish Students' Union has filed a lawsuit seeking 38.5 million euros (US$50 million) in criminal damages from Twitter and its CEO Dick Costolo over the company's failure to identify those responsible for a series of anti-semitic ...
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The High Court in Pietermaritzburg has ruled that small apparel manufacturing units, owned by families of Chinese and Taiwanese descent in Newcastle, in South Africa’s eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, are exempt from National ...
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