Microsoft is suing Motorola Mobility in Germany over a mapping patent that Microsoft alleges covers the Google Maps app that ships on Motorola phones. The two parties met each other in the regional court of Munich on Thursday, where ...
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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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The International Code Council has passed two provisions related to glass walkway standards,both of which the Glass Association of North America's(GANA)Glass Industry Code Committee(GICC)had advocated,according to information from GANA. ...
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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom appeared in Auckland High Court Wednesday as part of a judicial review of the police raid on his rented Coatesville mansion in January. This followed a ruling last month that the search and seizure operation ...
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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Yahoo and Facebook announced Friday they have settled a high-profile patent dispute with a deal that analysts said would likely be good for both sides. As part of the agreement, Yahoo and Facebook have signed a cross-licensing deal ...
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The online industry doesn't need new privacy legislation because it is doing a good job of protecting users' privacy, an executive of an advertising trade group told U.S. lawmakers Thursday. Even as Senator John "Jay" Rockefeller, ...
Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin and aluminum giant Rusal will settle their disputes over ownership rights in the world’s largest nickel producer, GMK Norilsk Nickel in a London arbitration proceeding, Bloomberg reported Friday, ...
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Kumba Iron Ore(Kumba)announces with regret that talks with a group of illegal strikers occupying the Company's Sishen Mine,to get them to leave the mine,have not been successful. As a result,they will now be notified to attend ...
Kumba Iron Ore has declared a general amnesty for the approximately 300 employees who have not yet returned to work after an unprotected and unlawful industrial action in October at Sishen Mine in the Northern Cape and whose employment was ...
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The International Code Council (ICC) recently passed the Glazing Industry Code Committee's (GICC) code change proposal (S300-12) to require the use of laminated glass in handrail assemblies, guardrails or guard sections. The GICC's proposal ...
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A patent agreement between Apple and HTC forbids the Taiwanese company from making and selling mobile devices that copy what is described as the'Distinctive Apple User Experience,"according to a redacted version of the agreement filed in a ...
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AK&M reported LUKOIL Overseas signed the package of documents to complete the sale of its 8% share in offshore hydrocarbon production projects in the Est Rapsodia and Trident exploration blocks in the Romanian sector of the Black Sea to ...
RIA Novosti / Ruslan Krivobok reported that Russian tycoons Oleg Deripaska and Vladimir Potanin may reportedly put an end to a 4 year long conflict over control of Norilsk Nickel by the year end. Key shareholders of the world's largest ...
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Sutherland Asbill & Brennan has appointed Ellen Dunn to serve its litigation group in New York as a part of firm’s continued insurance practice expansion. Earlier, Dunn held services with Dewey & LeBoeuf's US litigation practice as ...
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