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US regulators want rewrite of Google book settlement
News The US Department of Justice on Friday urged the court overseeing Google's book-search settlement with authors and publishers to reject the settlement in its current form, although it strongly hinted that the parties are flexible on certain...
[September 21, 2009, 9:44]
Supreme Court to review Microsoft patent appeal
News The US Supreme Court has agreed to wade into a patent case involving Microsoft and AT&T. Last July, a majority on a three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which presides over many patent cases, upheld that ruling.
[October 30, 2006, 12:53]
First spammers charged under new US law
News In a filing on Wednesday in the US District Court of Michigan, federal attorneys contend that Daniel J. Gina Balaya, a spokeswoman for the US Attorney's Office of Detroit, said Chung and Sadek were arrested and appeared in court on Wednesday.
[April 30, 2004, 8:50]
Microsoft infringed patent, says appeals court
News The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC, upheld a ruling that the patent at issue was valid and had been infringed on, but said there was not sufficient evidence to support the calculation of damages.
[September 14, 2009, 8:42]
Feds weed out drug paraphernalia sites
News Attorney General John Ashcroft told reporters that the government would ask a US district court in Pittsburgh to point the sites to a Web page at the Drug Enforcement Administration explaining why they were taken offline, a new twist in crime...
[February 25, 2003, 8:17]
DVD-copying case heads for court
News The latest major clash between technology and copyright owners heads to US federal court on Thursday, where software start-up 321 Studios hopes to win a reprieve from a legal attack by film companies on its DVD-copying software.
[May 15, 2003, 8:01]
Brace yourselves: MS remedy day nears
News It's back to US District Court on Wednesday for the various parties involved in the 2-year-old US Department of Justice vs. If the court dismisses the government's demand that Microsoft be broken up into smaller companies, but still entertains the...
[May 24, 2000, 13:31]
Gibson: Is McKinnon still here?
Blog Comment The only offense in the US Federal court system punishable by death is treason. If they told him they could kill him for breaking into a website that's probably enough right there to dump the case out of the US court system assuming he gets a sharp...
[November 3, 2008, 8:44]
Oracle and Justice Department look to June trial
News Oracle and the US Department of Justice are seeking a trial date of 21 June, in the closely watched antitrust case over Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft, according to papers filed on Monday in the US District Court of Northern California.
[March 10, 2004, 10:30]
eBay heads to the top for patent reform
News E-commerce giant eBay has asked the US Supreme Court to decide a patent issue currently pitting the computer technology and pharmaceuticals industries against one another in Congress. The petition, disclosed on Wednesday in an eBay regulatory...
[July 28, 2005, 8:50]
Court denies Vonage request for retrial
News A US appeals court has denied Vonage's request for a retrial of a patent case it lost against Verizon Communications earlier this year. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit refused to grant the motion late on Wednesday.
[May 4, 2007, 9:08]
Court rules in Microsoft's favour on patents
News In what could be a broader victory for software companies, the US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Microsoft cannot be forced to pay up for patent infringement that occurs when copies of Windows are made and installed on computers abroad.
[May 1, 2007, 8:55]
Psystar's antitrust suit against Apple rejected
News Judge William Alsup of the US Federal Court for the Northern District of California rejected Psystar's argument that Apple uses anticompetitive practices to prevent companies from selling computers that run Mac OS X, according to court documents...
[November 19, 2008, 8:16]
Windows code seller pleads guilty
News A Connecticut man has pleaded guilty in a US federal court to selling Microsoft source code over the Internet. William P Genovese Jr, 28, of Meriden, Connecticut, entered his plea on Monday in a Manhattan federal court to charges that he unlawfully...
[August 31, 2005, 9:55]
Hearing scheduled for Word injunction appeal
News A US district court judge last week issued an injunction that would halt sales of any version of Word that includes a custom XML function that was found by a jury to infringe on a patent from Canada's i4i.
[August 21, 2009, 16:10]
Microsoft ordered to pay millions in patent case
News A jury in US federal court has found that Microsoft infringed on a Guatemalan inventor's 1994 patent on technology linking the company's Access and Excel programs, and ordered the world's largest software maker to pay $8.9 million (£4.86 million...
[June 8, 2005, 10:05]
No return to IT's ice age
Talkback Let the US (land of lawyers and lawsuits) Supreme Court decide what it thinks is justice served for the US. And let the EU adopt a watch, see and learn approach because it'll be a show to watch should the US Supreme Court decide to favour the few...
[March 29, 2005, 22:52]
Lindows seeks to block Microsoft suits worldwide
News Open-source software maker Lindows reported on Tuesday that it has asked a US District Court to block Microsoft from filing additional trademark lawsuits against the company in foreign countries. In February, the US District Court in Seattle told...
[March 17, 2004, 10:05]
No win situation for the employees.
Talkback I once worked for a company who's US shareholders took them to court for announcing a final dividend down on previous estimates due to a far east recession. The US court upheld the shareholder complaints meaning that the R&D and investment budget...
[February 18, 2008, 15:26]
Rambus victorious in US gov't antitrust case
News The US Supreme Court handed chip designer Rambus a victory on Monday, when it refused to hear an appeal by the US Federal Trade Commission that alleged the company violated antitrust laws under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
[February 24, 2009, 11:25]
