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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 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]
Critics fight RIAA file-trader action
News A dozen consumer and privacy groups filed an amicus brief in federal court in Washington D.C.arguing that the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) request for information about a Verizon Communications subscriber should be denied.
[September 2, 2002, 15:01]
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]
Gibson: Is McKinnon still here?
Blog Comment The only offense in the US Federal court system punishable by death is treason. He can't be tried in a state court for a crime committed on Federal property, the NASA site and other websites. The crimes he committed and confessed to were against US...
[November 3, 2008, 8:44]
Microsoft wins antitrust appeal
News Handing Microsoft a major victory in its antitrust case, a federal appeals court has vacated a lower court's ruling calling for the breakup of the software titan. In Thursday's unanimous decision, a federal appeals court vacated that order and sent...
[June 28, 2001, 17:19]
Judges put end to Napster appeal
News A federal appeals court has determined that Napster must continue to block the swapping of copyrighted music, marking the latest legal setback for the fading online service. Record companies sued Napster in federal court in late 1999, when the file...
[June 26, 2001, 7:21]
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]
Broadcom chalks up win in Qualcomm patent feud
News On Wednesday, a US federal appeals court affirmed that Qualcomm is infringing on two mobile-phone patents. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that Qualcomm was not infringing on one of the three patents in question.
[September 25, 2008, 12:09]
Microsoft patent appeal heard
News A federal appeals court on Thursday wrestled with whether to overturn or uphold a lower court's $565m judgment against Microsoft in the biggest patent dispute in Web history. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit spent 40 minutes asking...
[December 10, 2004, 7:35]
Court reverses Microsoft patent-infringement ruling
News A US federal court on Tuesday reversed an earlier ruling that Microsoft's product-activation technology infringed on another company's patent, overturning a $388m verdict in the case. Microsoft initially won a summary judgment ruling, which would...
[September 30, 2009, 8:22]
Sharman continues file-sharing evidence fight
News Sharman Networks and the Music Industry Piracy Investigation (MIPI) will be back in the Australian Federal court later this week for yet another legal contest over access to evidence that was confiscated in raids last February.
[May 12, 2004, 10:50]
Open-source licence victory in model-railway case
News A federal appeals court in the US has upheld the right of a copyright holder to distribute software under a free or open-source licence while preventing such code being used commercially without following the licensing conditions.
[August 14, 2008, 17:32]
Computer Associates set to appear in court
News Computers Associates International is facing arraignment in federal court on Wednesday on criminal charges stemming from a two-year investigation into the software company's accounting practices. Judge Leo Glasser is presiding over both the...
[September 22, 2004, 14:00]
Chief executives called in Intel-Intergraph case
News A federal court has asked the chief executive officers of Intergraph and Intel to appear in court in an effort to resolve the remaining issues in a patent infringement case. Intergraph originally filed suit in an Alabama federal court in November...
[September 20, 2002, 7:48]
Microsoft not off the hook yet
News As expected, a federal appeals court has said it will consider whether a settlement inked between Microsoft, the US Department of Justice and some state attorneys general was consistent with the public interest.
[March 27, 2003, 16:52]
EC opens up Oracle case
News European antitrust regulators on Friday began combing through a federal court ruling in the controversial antitrust case against Oracle, comparing notes as they decide whether to issue their own challenge to the deal.
[September 13, 2004, 10:25]
A Year Ago: Naughton back in court Monday
News Former Infoseek executive Patrick Naughton heads back to federal court in Los Angeles Monday, where he's scheduled to be sentenced on charges of traveling across state lines with the intent of having sex with a minor.
[June 4, 2001, 6:28]
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. In the latest filing, Real accuses the studios as well as the DVD Copy Control Association, a group dedicated to...
[May 14, 2009, 11:27]
Lexmark loses legal battle over cartridge refills
News In a closely watched case in the United States involving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a federal court has ruled that a small North Carolina company can continue selling a chip that makes it possible to use refilled toner cartridges in...
[October 27, 2004, 11:10]
