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Article | 29/03/2013 SAP sues to protect customers from patent suits
SAP has filed a court action against patent holder Pi-Net International, which it says has filed patent infringement lawsuits against a number of SAP ...
Article | 29/03/2013 Huawei loses to ZTE in French patent suit
Networking and telecom equipment vendor Huawei has lost a patent lawsuit it filed in France against ZTE over a USB connector patent, ZTE said on Frida...
Article | 28/03/2013 Google pledges not to sue open-source users or developers over specified patents
Google will not sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked, the company said on Thursd...
Article | 28/03/2013 Red Hat, Rackspace win early dismissal of Uniloc patent suit
Red Hat and Rackspace have won an early dismissal of a patent infringement claim brought by Uniloc, in a decision the companies are hailing as a poten...
Article | 27/03/2013 Study: One-quarter of U.S. patents issued this year will be in mobile
The land rush for mobile patents is so feverish that about one-quarter of all patents issued in the U.S. this year will be mobile-related, according t...
Article | 27/03/2013 Epicor suit claims services firm hijacked its ERP software
Epicor is suing IT service provider Alternative Technology Solutions, claiming the company illegally used its ERP (enterprise resource planning) softw...
Article | 27/03/2013 Microsoft, Lenovo to promote genuine Windows on PCs
In the midst of its latest campaign to fight piracy in China, Microsoft has signed an agreement with Lenovo to ensure that its PCs ship with licensed ...
Article | 26/03/2013 Swedish language council removes 'ogooglebar' after pressure from Google
The Swedish Language Council has removed "ogooglebar", or "ungoogleable," from its annual list of new words after pressure from Google to respect its ...
Article | 26/03/2013 Ericsson in dispute over standards patents in India
Ericsson has sued Indian mobile handset vendor Micromax in an Indian court, alleging infringement of eight of its patents without payment of any consi...
Article | 25/03/2013 ICANN's trademark clearinghouse to launch Tuesday
As the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers launches a new trademark clearinghouse on Tuesday, businesses that own trademarks should co...
Article | 25/03/2013 Nokia uses its patents to block Google's VP8 video codec
Nokia said on Monday it is not prepared to license any of its patented technologies that might be essential to the VP8 video codec that is backed by G...
Article | 25/03/2013 US ITC finds Microsoft's Xbox does not violate Google patent
An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled against a ban on Microsoft's Xbox as he found it did not violate a pa...
Article | 22/03/2013 German copyright bill adopted by Bundesrat still excludes news snippets
The German Bundesrat has adopted an online copyright bill that will give publishers the exclusive right to make commercial use of their publications o...
Article | 20/03/2013 Intertrust hits Apple with broad patent suit
A company owned by Sony and Philips is suing Apple, alleging it's infringed numerous patents covering digital rights management technology.
Article | 19/03/2013 Supreme Court reaffirms resale of copyright works
U.S. residents have the right to resell software and other products protected by copyright even when they are manufactured overseas, the U.S. Supreme ...