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England's ARM holds on to chip-licensing top spot
News They also earn revenue through royalties for shipped products that incorporate the licensed intellectual property. ARM and Rambus retained their positions as the top two companies specialising in intellectual property for semiconductors.
[June 19, 2003, 14:12]
Small Webcasters get fee reprieve
News The pending bill would see small businesses pay between 8 percent and 12 percent of their revenue as royalties, instead of a flat per-song fee. Small Webcasters won't immediately have to pay new, potentially steep royalty fees due next week, the...
[October 21, 2002, 8:58]
Tate quits Rambus amid stock options probe
News Earlier in the month, the Federal Trade Commission made a judgement against the company accusing it of monopolistic behaviour and charging that it deliberately withheld "highly material" information from an industry group in order to impose...
[August 16, 2006, 13:30]
Nanotech merger creates patent powerhouse
News C Sixty has asserted that its patent portfolio is fairly broad and likely allows it to obtain royalties from a wide variety of manufacturers in the future. In a deal that will help solidify its patent portfolio while the nanotech industry gains...
[December 23, 2004, 10:50]
Microsoft to release .NET Micro Framework code
News Microsoft said in a statement that it will eliminate royalties from the distribution of the .NET Micro Framework and make the porting kit available at no cost. Microsoft is to provide users and developers access to the .NET Micro Framework source...
[May 11, 2009, 17:29]
Tessera aims to wrap up IPO
News While other companies will manufacture packages, Tessera will potentially be able to receive royalties on all the units shipped. TI filed suit in federal court in California in 2000 seeking relief from royalties.
[October 30, 2003, 14:45]
Microsoft and Apple's interoperability tussle
News Through its "Made for iPod" programme, company is attempting to collect royalties from the maker of any accessory device that interfaces with an iPod through its dock connector. If you play "Project Gotham Racing 3" on an Xbox 360 after the console...
[November 4, 2005, 17:25]
MP3 alternative gets Real
News While MP3 has become enormously popular thanks to its small file size and good quality, it remains subject to royalties paid to the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics and other members of the MPEG Consortium, which control the format.
[July 26, 2002, 9:36]
Vonage seeks retrial in Verizon patent case
News The jury went on to decide in March that three Verizon patents were valid and had been infringed by Vonage, which carried a damages award of $58m, plus royalties on future sales. A pivotal US Supreme Court ruling designed to make it easier to...
[May 2, 2007, 8:15]
Intel's 32/64-bit chip ready to launch
News Whether Intel borrowed or not, a licensing agreement means the chip giant does not have to pay royalties to its competitor. Nocona, Intel's first chip that will run 32-bit and 64-bit software, is expected to debut at the end of June, just within...
[June 15, 2004, 12:15]
Amazon defends used book sales
News While he encouraged the used booksellers to be "polite and civil" in their letters to the Guild, he did take a few swipes at it himself, saying that this "is the same organisation that from time to time has advocated charging public libraries...
[April 16, 2002, 14:01]
Sun makes $2bn pact with Microsoft
News The companies will pay royalties to use each other's technology; Microsoft is paying $350m now, with Sun to make payments when it incorporates technology later. Sun Microsystems announced on Friday that it has moved to a new phase of legal and...
[April 2, 2004, 15:20]
Five myths about Microsoft vs DOJ
News IBM: The love-hate relationship between Big Bill and Big Blue veered into Hate City when an IBM witness testified Thursday that Microsoft quintupled royalties when IBM refused to axe a competing operating system.
[June 1, 1999, 10:06]
A Year Ago: Five myths about Microsoft vs DoJ
News IBM: The love-hate relationship between Big Bill and Big Blue veered into Hate City when an IBM witness testified Thursday that Microsoft quintupled royalties when IBM refused to axe a competing operating system.
[May 31, 2000, 7:01]
In DVD war, Sony takes sides - both
News Sony still has to pay royalties to the DVD Forum and the DVD+RW Alliance, but through the integration of several chips in the drives and bringing manufacturing in house, the company has been able to lower costs.
[September 10, 2002, 7:53]
Rambus trial delayed until April
News Rambus is suing Infineon for patent infringement, claiming the German manufacturer owes it royalties for production of synchronous dynamic RAM and double data rate DRAM, two types of memory currently used in computers.
[March 19, 2001, 9:30]
Intel announces mobile WiMax chip
News Beardsmore also hit back at Qualcomm's intellectual property rights dominance in the HSxPA market, saying: "One of the advantages with WiMax is that the intellectual property rights are spread fairly evenly across the technology, so no one company...
[July 24, 2006, 10:10]
Wi-Fi standards face patent claim
News More than 100 companies could end up paying royalties to CSIRO for use of the technology, claimed Daniel J Furniss, a partner at Townsend and Townsend and Crew, the law firm representing CSIRO. Cisco's popular Linksys wireless routers, which use...
[November 21, 2006, 7:49]
Stallman touts GPLv3 provisions
News Releasing a program under GPLv3 protects it from Microsoft's future attempts to make redistributors collect Microsoft royalties from the program's users. The right to remove digital rights management controls and patent protection for free and open...
[June 4, 2007, 10:25]
Burning the Ships review
Reviews Although cross-licensing isn't in any sense new, Microsoft was used to protecting its secrets, as it had since the day Gates got IBM to agree to pay per-copy royalties for the very first version of DOS.
[April 3, 2009, 11:38]
