Apple could be on the verge of losing the bans on sales of the Samsung Galaxy Tab it has won in German courts. If the Dusseldorf lower regional court were to rule today, Samsung would be unlikely to be found infringing on Apple's design ...
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Court finds in favour of Intel, Apple and HP over X2Y Attenuators Intel, Apple and HP have won a processor patent infringement lawsuit against chip technology firm X2Y Attenuators. The US International Trade Commission (ITC) judge David ...
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Samsung Electronics has asked a court in California to strike down Apple's "self-serving" recommendation of sanctions against the South Korean company for revealing to the press documents that were not allowed as evidence in a patent ...
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IBM has been slapped with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by chemical products manufacturer Avantor Performance Materials, which alleges IBM lied about the suitability of an SAP-based software package it sells in order to win Avantor’s ...
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Apple will seek billions of dollars in damages from Samsung when a high-profile patent lawsuit between the companies goes in front of a California jury next week. Details of Apple's claim were included in documents submitted overnight to ...
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IBM has closed its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Kenexa, intended to boost IBM’s enterprise social collaboration offerings with Kenexa’s cloud-based human resources applications and IT services. IBM paid $46 per share for ...
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Bloomberg reported that Titanium Metals Corp has reached a settlement with an investor group that claimed the company's USD 2.9 billion acquisition by Portland's Precision Castparts Corp.was an attempt to avoid disclosing owner Harold ...
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Patents on software and on business methods are fueling a huge war in the mobile industry and holding back innovation, a group of patent experts said Tuesday. Patent holders -- many that don't make products -- are using software and ...
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The number of new lawsuits against Apple in China continues to grow, as a Taiwanese man has sued the company, alleging that the FaceTime feature on its iPhone and iPad infringes on one of his patents. A court in the Chinese city of ...
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Samsung is exploring the possibility of filing a lawsuit against Apple over the next iPhone, potentially arguing that the device infringes on Samsung's LTE wireless patents, according to unnamed industry sources quoted by the The Korea ...
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A federal judge has rejected BancorpSouth's plan to use contractual agreements with customers as a shield against liability claims stemming from an online heist of some $440,000 that was illegally wire-transferred from the account of one of ...
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IDG News Service - A federal jury in Delaware has found Apple's iPhone infringes on three patents held by MobileMedia Ideas, a patent-holding company formed by Sony, Nokia and MPEG LA. The jury's verdict in the U.S. District Court for the ...
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A judge in California has vacated a July jury decision that Research In Motion pay $147.2 million in damages to Mformation Technologies to settle a patent dispute. RIM was not in infringement of U.S. patent no. 6,970,917 ('917 patent) ...
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German consumer organisations are suing Facebook because the social network keeps sharing personal data with third-party app makers without getting explicit consent from users. Third party apps often want access to a users’ chat as ...
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The Indian offshoring giant Infosys ran a "full-throated campaign of retaliation" against employees to deter them from cooperating with federal authorities investigating visa fraud, according to a new lawsuit. This allegation is made in ...
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