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Court orders ICANN to open books
News During the 90-minute hearing, Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs said that ICANN board members could not be denied their right under California law to review financial records, travel logs, legal contracts and other internal documents.
[July 30, 2002, 9:40]
Court dismisses most Sony claims against Connectix
News The decision should come as no surprise: In February, an appeals court lifted a preliminary injunction that prevented Connectix from shipping VGS. In that ruling, the judges sided with Connectix on the key issues in the dispute and remanded the...
[May 17, 2000, 12:09]
Court: Itanium infringes patents
News A federal court ruled on Thursday that Intel's Itanium processor violates patents owned by Intergraph and ordered Intel to pay $150m (£96m) in damages. Years ago, a court threw out antitrust complaints filed by Intergraph, and this past April...
[October 11, 2002, 7:40]
Court rejects Microsoft bid for delay
News A federal appeals court on Friday delivered Microsoft a blow in its antitrust battle with the government, denying a request that could have indefinitely delayed further proceedings in the case. The order, issued by the US Court of Appeals for the...
[August 17, 2001, 16:58]
Court sides with Good against RIM
News Good said Wednesday that Orange County Superior Court Judge Raymond J. According to RIM, the court did grant its request to shorten the pretrial discovery period. A California judge has denied a request from Research In Motion for a temporary...
[October 10, 2002, 9:29]
Court sides with Microsoft in Sun lawsuit
News Sun's claims came in spite of the fact that the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a preliminary injunction against Microsoft, pending further clarification from the US District Court in San Jose, California.
[August 24, 1999, 8:12]
Court blocks DVD-cracking suit
News The California Supreme Court handed Hollywood's antipiracy efforts a setback on Monday, ruling that a Texas resident who posted controversial DVD-cracking code online can't be sued in the California. The ruling, released by the court on Monday...
[November 26, 2002, 8:19]
Court gives go-ahead to Hewlett lawsuit
News HP, which believes it narrowly won a 19 March shareholder vote on the deal, asked a Delaware court to dismiss the suit, a request that was denied Monday. Hewlett Revocable Trust issued a statement saying it was "pleased" with the ruling and...
[April 9, 2002, 8:34]
Microsoft ruling: Court's decision
Video The Luxembourg-based Court of First Instance overturns the appeal of the software giant and orders it to pay a €497m (£344m) fine originally levied by the EU executive in 2004.
[September 18, 2007, 16:57]
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 against TorrentSpy in hacking case
News A lawsuit filed last year by TorrentSpy — a BitTorrent search engine — that accused the movie studios' trade group of intercepting the company's private emails, was tossed out of court last week. But while a US district judge found that the Motion...
[August 29, 2007, 11:05]
Court delays Microsoft vs Lindows trial
News The court case between Microsoft and desktop Linux-maker Lindows.com, over Microsoft's ownership of the word 'windows', has been delayed for at least another three months. This time, the US District Court in Seattle has rescheduled the trial for 1...
[November 25, 2003, 14:30]
Microsoft ruling: Court's decision
News The Luxembourg-based Court of First Instance overturns the appeal of the software giant and orders it to pay a €497m (£344m) fine originally levied by the EU executive in 2004.
[September 18, 2007, 16:57]
False feedback okay - court
Talkback Your headline and summary implies that the court reached an unreasonable decision. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! No. All it did was what it was obliged to do - apply federal law. If critisism of anyone is due, it is the Federal...
[February 11, 2004, 11:50]
Court cuts off deep linking
News In one of the first legal decisions to ban so-called deep linking, a Danish court has ruled that a news site cannot provide hyperlinks to certain Web pages without the permission of publishers. It's unclear whether the ruling by Copenhagen's lower...
[July 9, 2002, 8:20]
Court orders Sony to pay rootkit victims
News The court action picked up last fall when security researchers exposed the behaviour of First4Internet's XCP and SunnComm's MediaMax, which are automatically installed on a user's computer upon loading certain Sony BMG music CDs.
[May 23, 2006, 9:55]
Court rules in favour of ICANN
News In a ruling released Thursday, a federal court in Los Angeles dismissed charges filed by two domain name registrars that alleged the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had engaged in anticompetitive practices.
[November 17, 2003, 11:10]
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]
Court rules university can publish Oyster crack
News A university can publish details of research detailing the cryptographic cracking of the Oyster travel smartcard, a Dutch court has ruled. The court in Arnheim found on Friday that Radboud University could publish the paper.
[July 18, 2008, 17:00]
Court delays Microsoft vs Lindows trial
Talkback Presumably this court action is just another stage in Microsoft's bid to own the word "windows", and by extension "window", outright. But when it achieves that, what next? Will it, I wonder, build a case for levying an annual royalty, if not on...
[December 1, 2003, 14:37]
