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Article | 28/05/2011 Senator blocks controversial copyright bill
A U.S. senator has blocked a controversial bill that would enlist ISPs, search engines and other businesses in blocking access to alleged websites inf...
Article | 27/05/2011 PayPal, eBay sue Google over mobile payments secrets
PayPal and parent eBay have filed a suit against Google and two former executives alleging that they have misappropriated their trade secrets in the a...
Article | 27/05/2011 Senate panel approves controversial copyright bill
A U.S. Senate committee has unanimously approved a controversial bill that would allow the U.S. Department of Justice to seek court orders requiring s...
Article | 26/05/2011 Oracle-Google trial could be delayed for years
The federal judge overseeing the Java patent litigation between Oracle and Google has said it might be necessary to delay a trial until U.S. authoriti...
Article | 25/05/2011 'Hurt Locker' lawsuit targets 24,583 BitTorrent users
Voltage Pictures, producers of the Oscar-winning 2009 film "The Hurt Locker," is suing 24,583 BitTorrent users for downloading the film.
Article | 25/05/2011 EU IP plans tantamount to censorship, say critics
The European Commission has presented a controversial proposal for a European intellectual property rights strategy that it said will strengthen the k...
Article | 20/05/2011 Google intends to resist anti-piracy law efforts
Google is standing its ground when it comes to enforcing -- or rather, not enforcing -- an anti-piracy law that would require ISPs to terminate the In...
Article | 20/05/2011 Microsoft next to face instant search suit
MasterObjects, a software development company, added Microsoft to the list of companies it is suing for infringing on a patent for technology that dis...
Article | 19/05/2011 North Korea's Internet domain is in new hands
Control of North Korea's top-level Internet domain has been formally assigned to a government-backed venture after the previous operator, a German com...
Article | 19/05/2011 Overhaul of U.K. copyright law would boost GDP, says report
The U.K.'s obsolete copyright laws are hurting innovation and should be overhauled to boost economic growth and make it easier for content and creativ...
Article | 17/05/2011 SAP hit with $US345 million verdict in patent case
A federal jury has ordered SAP to pay Versata Software damages of $US345 million in connection with a patent infringement lawsuit.
Article | 14/05/2011 iOS developers threatened with patent lawsuits
A company called Lodsys claims to own four patents covering the in-app purchase mechanism found on iOS devices, and is seeking licensing fees from at ...
Article | 14/05/2011 Appeals court throws out Rambus patent ruling
A U.S. appeals court has ruled on two patent lawsuits that pit Rambus against two competing DRAM makers, sending both cases back to district courts fo...
Article | 14/05/2011 Trade judge rules against Apple's Kodak complaint
One administrative law judge of the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled that Kodak did not infringe Apple patents in its cameras, possibly s...
Article | 14/05/2011 LimeWire agrees to pay $105 million to record labels
LimeWire has agreed to pay record labels US$105 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the file-sharing service allowed its users to infringe copyr...