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Apple accused of patent infringement
News The company was involved in a similar patent infringement dispute with Microsoft last year that ended with a $60m (£30m) settlement and a Microsoft licence to the Burst technology. Burst.com has filed a countersuit against Apple claiming that the...
[April 18, 2006, 9:40]
SanDisk to sue STMicroelectronics for patent infringement
News SanDisk has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against rival STMicroelectronics and has asked a trade commission to halt shipments of its competitor's flash memory into the United States. SanDisk, the leader in flash memory cards, said Monday it...
[October 18, 2004, 16:45]
Palm accused of patent infringement
News NTP, the company behind the epic patent-infringement lawsuit against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, is now going after Palm. In a lawsuit filed in US District Court in Virginia on Monday, NTP asserted that Palm's products, services, systems...
[November 7, 2006, 8:36]
RIM faces patent-infringement lawsuit
News Mformation, a maker of mobile-device management software, said on Friday that it has sued Research In Motion for patent infringement. This does not mark the first time RIM has been sued for patent infringement.
[November 3, 2008, 10:23]
IBM accused of trademark infringement
News IBM is reportedly being sued by a Chinese software company over alleged trademark infringement. The case between IBM and Chinese firm Shanghai Shenji Computer Software Company is currently under review in Beijing's Chaoyang People's Court...
[January 10, 2005, 15:05]
Microsoft patent-infringement case to go to trial
News The motion also seeks a ruling that any Microsoft infringement of TVI's patents is not wilful, because there is no evidence Microsoft knew of the TVI patents before the suit. A federal judge ruled against Microsoft on Wednesday in a patent suit...
[October 14, 2004, 9:00]
Rambus sues Hitachi over patent infringement
News Rambus Tuesday filed suit against Hitachi for alleged wilful patent infringement on several semiconductor products, seeking injunctions against the manufacture, use and sale of several memory and microprocessor products, and seeking punitive...
[January 19, 2000, 14:57]
Microsoft sued again for patent infringement
News During one of those meetings, Priceline said Microsoft CEO Bill Gates told Priceline founder Jay Walker that he wasn't going to let patent infringement claims stand in his way. Gates went on to say that many other companies were suing Microsoft for...
[October 14, 1999, 9:47]
Trademark infringement suit hits search again
News JP Enterprises, which owns the LoveCity.com site, filed the lawsuit on 6 June in a US district court in Colorado, accusing Yahoo, HDVE LLC, Spark Networks and Insight Direct USA of unfair competition and trademark dilution and infringement.
[June 19, 2006, 10:00]
Verizon sues Vonage for VoIP patent infringement
News The bad news for Internet phone provider Vonage keeps piling up, as the company now faces a patent infringement lawsuit from telephone giant Verizon Communications. On Monday, less than a month after the company's disappointing debut on the New...
[June 20, 2006, 9:50]
Nvidia accused of patent infringement
News Graphics processor manufacturer Nvidia has been accused of patent infringement by OPTi, a company based in California. In a statement released on Tuesday, OPTi announced that it has filed a complaint against Nvidia Corporation in the Eastern...
[October 20, 2004, 16:50]
IP infringement fines to increase tenfold
News The UK government is to increase the maximum fine for intellectual-property infringement from £5,000 to £50,000. Respondents were presented with three options: to maintain the current maximum fine, to increase the maximum fine for copyright...
[May 6, 2009, 17:00]
Making IP infringement a crime
News The law in the UK is generally used only in cases of large-scale organised crime, while the European directive appears to offer enforcement against any type of IP infringement on a commercial scale. This could dissuade companies from using open...
[August 1, 2005, 17:30]
Court reverses Microsoft patent-infringement ruling
News A US federal court on Tuesday reversed an earlier ruling that Microsoft's product-activation technology infringed on another company's patent, overturning a $388m verdict in the case. In a ruling on Tuesday, the court vacated the earlier decision...
[September 30, 2009, 8:22]
MS, Casio sued over 'trademark infringement'
News It is not the soon to be launched Palm PC's design that Palm Computing is upset about, but its name, which it says is confusingly similar to its own PalmPilot. Palm Computing has filed law suits in Germany and Italy against the two manufacturers...
[March 6, 1998, 13:50]
Cyrix sues Intel for patent infringement
News Like Digital yesterday, Cyrix says Intel infringed its patents in Pentium, Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors. Cyrix is pursuing an injunction and unspecified damages and fees.
[May 14, 1997, 17:01]
Compaq sues for patent infringement
News "Compaq makes substantial investments in research and development," said Alan Hodel, a spokesman for the Houston, Texas-based Compaq.eMachines is infringing patents that hurt those R&D investments.eMachines would not comment, though a spokesperson...
[July 27, 1999, 8:56]
Pub 'fined £8k' for Wi-Fi copyright infringement
News A pub owner has been fined £8,000 because someone unlawfully downloaded copyrighted material over their open Wi-Fi hotspot, according to the managing director of hotspot provider The Cloud. Graham Cove told ZDNet UK on Friday he believes the case...
[November 27, 2009, 17:03]
SCO attacks Novell over Linux sales
News After three years of accusations, SCO Group has finally begun aiming a legal charge of copyright infringement toward a Linux supplier. But it's a mystery to some why it took so long for the company to raise the copyright infringement charge in...
[January 9, 2006, 11:00]
Good Technology hit by patent claim
News Wireless email vendor Visto took aim Tuesday at a fellow rival to Research In Motion, filing a patent infringement lawsuit against Good Technology. The request for an injunction is a standard part of a patent-infringement lawsuit, said Rod Thompson...
[February 1, 2006, 10:50]
