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Microsoft patent-infringement case to go to trial
News Judge Jeffrey White of US District Court for the Northern District of California denied three Microsoft motions for summary judgment in a suit filed by TV Interactive Data (TVI), a small Monte Sereno, California, company specializing in...
[October 14, 2004, 9:00]
AMD chief criticises proposed Microsoft remedy
News Before Sanders took the stand, Microsoft filed a motion asking Kollar-Kotelly to dismiss the litigating states' claims. In a related matter, the Justice Department on Monday afternoon filed a "friend of court brief" requested by Kollar-Kotelly.
[April 17, 2002, 7:31]
Aimster hit with file-swap suit
News The record industry on Thursday filed a lawsuit against file-swapping company Aimster, charging that it is violating copyrights in much the same way as Napster or Scour, targets of previous lawsuits. The suit was filed in New York federal court.
[May 25, 2001, 10:35]
AutoZone asks for stay on SCO case
News The resolution of each of these prior filed actions will significantly clarify, if not resolve, SCO's claims against AutoZone," the auto parts retailer said in its motion. In its response, filed on Friday in US District Court in Nevada, AutoZone...
[April 28, 2004, 8:30]
Microsoft's request to shift trial denied
News Streaming media provider RealNetworks filed a civil suit against Microsoft in December, seeking more than $1bn in damages from the company on charges that it illegally used its Windows monopoly to hurt digital media rivals.
[March 12, 2004, 9:30]
Appeals court to Napster: Rock on!
News In its motion for a stay, filed Thursday, the company argued it would have had to lay off employees and shut its site down because it had no way to differentiate trading of major-label songs from trading of songs by independent artists.
[July 31, 2000, 8:36]
Aussie Kazaa case heads for November trial
News At the day-long hearing yesterday, Wilcox said the discovery process should be completed by 13 August, with applicants' affidavits filed by mid-August and responses by Sharman filed by early October. Sharman, however, said the discovery process...
[July 2, 2004, 12:05]
Hollywood heads to court over movie-swapping
News The civil lawsuits, which will be filed against individual movie file-swappers starting 16 November, represent a kind of legal escalation for an industry that fears its films eventually may be shared on the Internet as widely as songs are today.
[November 5, 2004, 7:48]
White House enters the Napster fray
News Three weeks ago, Napster filed its first detailed argument to the higher court, claiming Patel's ruling did not consider all of the evidence in the company's favour. In a brief filed Friday, White House attorneys opposed Napster's argument that PCs...
[September 11, 2000, 7:57]
Court dismisses Google search-fixing case
News PageRanks are opinions -- opinions of the significance of particular Web sites as they correspond to a search query," according to the decision filed in the US Western District Court of Oklahoma. SearchKing, which operates an advertising network...
[June 2, 2003, 9:29]
SCO adds to IBM ammunition
News Part of the reason IBM filed its summary judgment motion was to flush out as much of SCO's theory and evidence as possible," said David Byer, an intellectual property attorney at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault.
[July 16, 2004, 14:40]
Napster marches back to court
News Then in June, the RIAA filed a motion for a preliminary injunction that, if granted, would ban Napster from posting any major label music on its site until the case is decided. Another suit, filed in California Superior Court in Santa Clara by a...
[July 25, 2000, 13:39]
Microsoft tries to stave off Word sale ban
Blog Microsoft has filed an emergency motion with a US court in the hope of being allowed to continue selling Word in that country. Although the emergency motion is sealed, making it impossible to report on its precise content, it is labelled in the...
[August 18, 2009, 17:30]
Google steams ahead with 'floating datacentre'
News The search giant has filed a patent for a 'floating datacentre' that uses wave motion to power on-board computers and the ocean's water to cool them. The patent specifies the use of a so-called Pelamis machine, which uses pontoons with pumps to...
[September 9, 2008, 10:08]
Why Research In Motion won't blink
News We signed a binding term sheet and we filed a motion to that appeals circuit court. Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie is standing firm in his fight to keep BlackBerry products running in the United States.
[June 24, 2005, 11:05]
RealNetworks files antitrust motion against MPAA
News RealNetworks has accused the major film studios of antitrust violations in documents filed on Wednesday with a federal court. The Motion Picture Association of America claims that RealDVD violates copyright law.
[May 14, 2009, 11:27]
US Report: Microsoft asks appeals court for help on Windows 98
News The motion filed in the U.S. Such new actions under the Sherman antitrust act may be filed in a matter of days. A Justice Department spokesman said: "Our response will be filed promptly. Court of Appeals on Tuesday would have no effect on possible...
[May 7, 1998, 11:34]
Hollywood tries to block DVD decoder
News The major Hollywood studios filed a motion in New York federal court seeking to block a controversial Web site from posting links to other Web sites where users can download a program that decodes encrypted material on digital video disks.
[April 6, 2000, 15:59]
AMD files to learn Intel's secrets
News Sunnyvale, California-based AMD has filed a motion with the US District Court of Northern California to compel Intel to produce expert testimony and documents that allegedly shed light on how Intel handles PC makers that don't cooperate with the...
[October 25, 2001, 9:06]
Red Hat has 'no grounds' for lawsuit, says SCO
News In a motion filed late on Monday in US District Court in Delaware, SCO argues that Red Hat has no grounds to sue SCO, as SCO's actions against the open-source Linux operating system have not specifically targeted Red Hat.
[September 16, 2003, 9:00]
