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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 | 26/03/2013 US censorship lawsuit against China's Baidu dismissed
A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to punish Chinese Internet company Baidu for blocking pro-democracy works on its search engine, with ...
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 | 22/03/2013 EU mulls Apple anti-trust investigation over contracts with operators
The European Commission is deciding whether or not to launch an anti-trust investigation into Apple's contracts with European mobile phone companies.
Article | 21/03/2013 Bills would require police to get warrants for mobile phone location
A group of U.S. lawmakers has introduced legislation that would require law enforcement agencies to get court-ordered search warrants before obtaining...
Article | 21/03/2013 Microsoft details law enforcement requests in new report
Following similar disclosures from companies like Google and Twitter, Microsoft has for the first time released statistics about requests it has recei...
Article | 21/03/2013 French Jewish Students' Union seeks €38.5M in criminal damages from Twitter
The French Jewish Students' Union has filed a lawsuit seeking €38.5 million (US$50 million) in criminal damages from Twitter and its CEO Dick Costolo ...
Article | 21/03/2013 Would a 3D-printed gun really be legal?
Defense Distributed, the pro-gun nonprofit working to make 3D-printable gun designs freely available to everyone on the Internet, recently inched one ...
Article | 21/03/2013 EC pressed to charge Google in antitrust case
Eleven complainants sent an open letter to European Union's Competition Commissioner Joaquín Almunia urging him to formally charge Google with breachi...
Article | 21/03/2013 Former Tribune staffer denies giving hackers log-in credentials
Former Tribune Company employee Matthew Keys has denied giving a username and password to anyone, or conspiring to cause damage to a protected compute...
Article | 20/03/2013 ACLU sues SF over warrantless cellphone search
The ACLU of Northern California is challenging a police search of a suspect's cellphone after his arrest, saying it violated his civil rights and thos...
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.