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Article | 9/08/2011 RIAA chief steps down
Mitch Bainwol, who oversaw the Recording Industry Association of America's campaign against illegal music downloading, including lawsuits against indi...
Article | 9/08/2011 Google accuses Oracle of delay tactics in Android suit
Google is accusing Oracle of dragging its feet in providing a large volume of documents related to the companies' lawsuit over alleged Java patent vio...
Article | 9/08/2011 Google, Oracle still battling over Android e-mail
Google and Oracle continue to tussle over a potentially damaging e-mail in the ongoing lawsuit over alleged Java patent violations in the Android mobi...
Article | 6/08/2011 Microsoft and Google's 5 Most Ridiculous Fights
This week's war of words over software patents and Android has seen both Microsoft and Google get off some pretty good shots about Android and softwar...
Article | 6/08/2011 Oracle asks court to force Motorola to testify
Oracle has asked an Illinois court to force Motorola to hand over information relevant to Oracle's lawsuit against Google.
Article | 5/08/2011 Judge OKs Google e-mail about licensing Java
A potentially damning e-mail from a Google engineer will be permitted at trial in Oracle's lawsuit against the search giant, a judge ordered on Thursd...
Article | 4/08/2011 Verizon to appeal $115M ActiveVideo verdict
Verizon Communications will appeal a $US115 million verdict in a patent-infringement lawsuit brought by cloud-based TV infrastructure vendor ActiveVid...
Article | 3/08/2011 US court rejects dismissal in China Internet filter case
A U.S. court rejected motions to dismiss defendants in a US$2.2 billion lawsuit involving a Chinese government-backed Web filtering package that was a...
Article | 3/08/2011 CloudTV maker wins $115M suit against Verizon
Cloud-based TV infrastructure company ActiveVideo has won a $US115 million judgment against Verizon Communications for infringement of its patents.
Article | 3/08/2011 Google cites Schmidt testimony in Android suit defense
Google wants a judge to throw out Java copyright infringement claims Oracle has lodged against the Android mobile OS, based partly on 17-year-old test...
Article | 1/08/2011 Google ups ante with 1,000 patents from IBM
Google has acquired more than 1,000 patents from IBM in order to pad its portfolio. Patent litigation is a theater of the absurd in most cases, but it...
Article | 2/08/2011 Judge: Email in Oracle-Google case will remain public
The judge overseeing the lawsuit Oracle filed over the Android mobile OS has denied Google's attempt to get a potentially damaging e-mail redacted.
Article | 30/07/2011 Alcatel-Lucent gets $70 million in Microsoft patent case
Microsoft has been ordered to pay $US70 million to networking vendor Alcatel-Lucent in a years-old patent dispute that at one time could have cost Mic...
Article | 30/07/2011 Google wants e-mail in Android suit redacted
Google wants the judge overseeing the lawsuit Oracle filed over the Android mobile OS to redact a potentially damaging e-mail written by a Google empl...
Article | 27/07/2011 InterDigital sues Nokia, Huawei and ZTE
InterDigital on Tuesday said it has filed complaints with the U.S. International Trade Commission and federal court against Nokia, Huawei and ZTE, cha...