A U.S. judge ruled Thursday that Motorola Mobility is entitled to substantially less royalties than it wanted from Microsoft for the company's use of wireless and video-encoding patents in its Xbox products. The ruling, handed down in the ...
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The U.S. online advertising industry has not lived up to a promise to stop the online tracking of Internet users who ask advertisers to do so, a senior U.S. senator said Wednesday. Senator John "Jay" Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, ...
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The corporate regulator has appointed a senior executive of Macquarie Group to fill one of its top posts amid a recent history of high-profile actions against the country's biggest home-grown investment bank. Cathie Armour, an executive ...
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RPM International Inc. announced today that it has appointed Craig S. Morford to its board of directors in anticipation of the retirement of William A. Papenbrock. Papenbrock will retire at the company’s upcoming annual meeting on ...
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A Motorola Mobility patent that was successfully used to force Apple to turn off its iCloud push email services for users in Germany last year could be invalid, the District Court in Mannheim, Germany, said on Friday. The court said it ...
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United Lender Services (ULS), a Pennsylvania-based title insurance, settlement services, and appraisal management company, is expanding its commercial title insurance services. Led by director, general counsel James DiGregory, the ...
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The U.S. Congress should limit the ability of patent holders that don't make products to file infringement complaints at the U.S. International Trade Commission because of a huge increase in cases there, representatives of some companies ...
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Departing U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced today that Deputy United States Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis will assume the post of Acting United States Trade Representative effective Friday, March 15, 2013, as Ambassador ...
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BlackBerry is mad and it’s not going to take it anymore. The smartphone maker came out swinging Friday, one day after several market analyst reports said the company’s first BlackBerry 10 handset, the touch-centric Z10, is not ...
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Industry thought-leaders will identify the critical issues and present best practice solutions to optimize packaging across the supply chain at the Packaging Optimization Summit, presented by PAC NEXT. The event will take place on May 15, ...
It's been a turbulent decade at Hewlett-Packard, with board members and CEOs resigning or being ousted for all manner of colorful reasons, including strategic missteps, accusations of spying on journalists and alleged sexual harassment. ...
Cloud computing company Rackspace has sued two companies it describes as 'patent trolls' for breach of contract, and asked a federal court for a declaratory judgment that it did not infringe three patents owned by one of the companies, ...
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The U.S. government agency leading an effort to create a voluntary cybersecurity framework for companies operating critical infrastructure wants to hear ideas about what to include in those standards. The U.S. National Institute of ...
Microsoft today launched a searchable list of its complete patent portfolio as part of its defense of the patent system, particularly software patents. The list is currently composed of nearly 41,000 U.S. and international patents ...
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Severstal announced Monday that the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied ArcelorMittal's request for a rehearing in the matter relating to its aluminum coated steel sheet for hot stamping. The Court of Appeals let stand the ...
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