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Six Patents Key To Case Against Apple And Microsoft
News The British Technology Group International's (BTG) lawsuit against Microsoft and Apple for alleged infringement of its software technology, filed on Tuesday, hinges on six patents. Five other patents followed.
[July 21, 2004, 12:25]
Apple Patents Secure Code
Talkback This was reported first on Macsimum News on November 3, 2005: http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/apple_files_patent_system_and_method_for_creating_tamper_resistant_code/
[November 10, 2005, 15:18]
Six Patents Key To Case Against Apple And Microsoft
Talkback Shows the stupidity of allowing patents which don't have a physical invention. I read most of these ideas in Sci FI books in the 60's
[July 22, 2004, 12:55]
Apple Patents Secure Code
News Apple, which is in the process of switching to computers based on the omnipresent Intel processor, has filed a patent application describing a method for securely running Mac OS X on specific hardware.
[November 10, 2005, 10:20]
Microsoft Patents An Apple
News Microsoft, amid an IP spree that has won the company patent protection for everything from XML dialects to video game storage methods, mistakenly received a patent on Tuesday for a new variety of apple tree.
[May 5, 2004, 10:25]
Apple Pays $100m To End Creative Battle
News Apple and Creative Technology have agreed to settle their legal dispute over music player patents for $100m, the companies announced on Wednesday. After months of hinting that it would be coming after rival music player companies, Creative sued...
[August 24, 2006, 9:00]
Apple Could Face Jury In $1.1 Billion Lawsuit
News Imatec says Apple has violated three patents involving digital imaging in Apple's "Color Sync" color management systems. The patents are titled: "Method and System in Video Image Hard Copy Reproduction," "Method and System in Video Image...
[March 26, 1998, 11:14]
Apple Accused Of Patent Infringement
News Burst.com has filed a countersuit against Apple claiming that the iTunes software, the iPod and the Quicktime streaming software all infringe on patents held by Burst.com, Burst announced Monday. After being approached by Burst.com in late 2004...
[April 18, 2006, 9:40]
Apple Pays Out Over ITunes Patent
News Apple has become the latest in a line of companies licensing patents from the relatively obscure E-Data, a company that claims to hold property rights on the process of selling music online. The company's patents, granted in 1985, cover the...
[August 5, 2004, 9:50]
Bloody Battles In The Courtroom: An Apple History Pt II
News Imatec and Hanoch Shalit accuse Apple of infringing their patents with Apple's ColorSync software, used for colour correction in graphic design. The suit is dismissed in 2000 after a judge decides Imatec and Shalit don't even own the patents the...
[August 3, 2000, 15:00]
Microsoft Pips Apple To IPod Patent
News In a statement, Apple noted that the company "has received many patents for inventions related to iPod, and has many more patents pending. Kaefer said that although Microsoft's patent application does predate Apple's, what could ultimately end up...
[August 15, 2005, 10:15]
'Gphone' Rumours Hit Fever Pitch
News And what do the smoke signals — and Google patents — say? Arnold has researched Google's patents and found more than a dozen that relate to mobile telephony. Unlike Apple's iPhone, the Gphone probably won't be an actual hardware device.
[October 25, 2007, 12:24]
Apple's Patent Bending
Talkback Regarding patents, there are valid arguments on both sides for what should be ethically patentable and what should not be. It is my opinion that patents are these days in some ways used as "legal" currency by corporations.
[February 22, 2005, 0:36]
MPEG-4 Adoption Gets Closer As Licence Released
News A consortium of companies holding patents attached to the MPEG-4 multimedia standard released its licence for the technology, raising hopes for widespread adoption. Companies claiming patents related to MPEG-4 include Microsoft, Canon, France...
[November 26, 2002, 9:24]
MP3 Revamp To Prevent Piracy
News Thomson and Fraunhofer, the companies that license and own the patents behind the MP3 digital music technology, are in the midst of creating a new digital rights management add-on for the popular format, a Thomson executive said on Tuesday.
[March 2, 2004, 7:50]
Microsoft Defeat Stirs Patent Concerns
News Eolas Technologies, a University of California spin-off with one employee, no products, a handful of patents and 100 investors, on Monday prevailed in its $521m (£324m) patent-infringement suit against Microsoft.
[August 14, 2003, 14:55]
Gateway's Plan To Bring Back Amiga
News The San Diego PC maker's original plan was to use the patents as a bargaining chip in royalty negotiations with other PC makers. Gateway paid about $13m (£8m) for 47 Amiga patents, including those for important multimedia techniques.
[August 12, 1999, 14:59]
Apple's Patent Bending
Talkback The number of cases lately where prior art hasn't been taken into account, or patents are so general, that they could cover just about anything. If IP is becoming such a big area for litgation, the USPO (and the European PO for that matter) should...
[March 31, 2004, 17:36]
Microsoft Must Pay $1.5bn In MP3 Patent Case
News Given this verdict, it wouldn't surprise me if Lucent is even more aggressive in the marketplace about licensing its patents, but it has always been aggressive," Leibnitz said. Leibnitz earlier represented Dolby Labs in a patent dispute over...
[February 23, 2007, 7:52]
Apple's Patent Bending
Talkback If your comments on Apple's patents are applicable, then they should apply to M$ as well. Gee, MAYBE you can apply this to M$ trying to patent XML schemas: unless you own the latest, greatest upgrade from M$, sorry you can't exchange document with...
[April 23, 2004, 19:47]
