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Adobe: Few eBook copies found
News An Adobe Systems employee on Wednesday during testimony in a federal copyright trial acknowledged his company hadn't tracked down any unauthorised eBooks created by ElcomSoft software. In a federal courtroom in the US, ElcomSoft attorney Joseph...
[December 5, 2002, 11:27]
Mediator appointed in MS antitrust case
News Giving it one last shot, the federal judge overseeing the Microsoft antitrust trial has appointed a federal mediator in bid to prod the two sides to reach an out-of-court settlement. That document will be his final determination on whether...
[November 22, 1999, 8:35]
Lindows: Jury to decide
News A federal judge in Seattle on Wednesday refused a request by software maker Lindows to toss out Microsoft's trademark case against it, paving the way for an April trial. Lindows chief executive Michael Robertson said he was disappointed by the...
[January 27, 2003, 8:58]
Naughton back in court Monday
News In March, Naughton pleaded guilty just days before he was set to face a second trial on charges stemming from a federal cybersting operation. Former Infoseek executive Patrick Naughton heads back to federal court in Los Angeles Monday, where he's...
[June 5, 2000, 10:14]
Exclusive: Mitnick To Plead Guilty
News The plea is contained in a court document, or "notice", jointly filed by Mitnick's attorney and federal prosecutors, sources said. Federal Court Judge Mariana Pfaelzer. The 25-count federal indictment issued against Mitnick accuses him of using...
[March 18, 1999, 9:13]
A Year Ago: Naughton back in court Monday
News In March, Naughton pleaded guilty just days before he was set to face a second trial on charges stemming from a federal cybersting operation. Former Infoseek executive Patrick Naughton heads back to federal court in Los Angeles Monday, where he's...
[June 4, 2001, 6:28]
Court denies Vonage request for retrial
News But in my view, unless they marshal something new, I don't see the Federal Circuit granting a new trial based on KSR. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit refused to grant the motion late on Wednesday.
[May 4, 2007, 9:08]
Microsoft scores victory in Alcatel-Lucent suit
News A week after Microsoft was ordered to hand over $1.5bn in an Alcatel-Lucent MP3 patent dispute, a federal judge has ruled that the Windows maker did not violate a patent at the heart of a second trial that was set to begin soon.
[March 5, 2007, 7:06]
Alleged 'Seattle Spammer' arrested
News Alleged spam mogul Robert Alan Soloway was arrested on Wednesday after being indicted by a US federal grand jury. Soloway, owner of Newport Internet Marketing, was indicted by a federal grand jury on 23 May in a US District Court in Seattle on 10...
[June 1, 2007, 15:49]
A Year Ago: New MS suits opening Pandora's Box?
News Attorneys in the federal case also are asking Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who presides over the government's lawsuit against Microsoft, to hear the case. The two suits -- one filed in federal court on behalf of Texas-based Gravity, the other in...
[February 23, 2000, 6:10]
First Net gambling case goes to trial
News More is at stake in Cohen's trial than determining whether federal law, which in part prohibits using "a wire communication facility for the transmission in interstate or foreign commerce of bets or wagers," applies to Internet wagering.
[February 16, 2000, 13:10]
Shareholders dismiss lawsuit against Rambus
News In January, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal District found that the trial court erred in ruling that Rambus did not have valid patent infringement claims against Infineon. The Federal Trade Commission is currently conducting a...
[May 29, 2003, 7:54]
Patent defeat for Microsoft and Autodesk
News A federal judge in Texas has delivered a setback to Microsoft and Autodesk in their patent infringement battle with product activation start-up Z4 Technologies. The East Texas Federal District Court is a frequent destination for patent infringement...
[August 24, 2006, 9:20]
Patent reform case falls
News Nowadays, the companies argue, the Federal Circuit reverses trial judges more than one-third of the time -- resulting in less incentive for companies to settle suits early, aggressive defences of clear cases of infringement and pursuit of...
[January 20, 2005, 9:30]
Vonage seeks retrial in Verizon patent case
News One day after the high court released a unanimous opinion widely viewed as one of the most sweeping changes to patent law in years, the struggling internet phone company asked the US Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit to put its pending appeals...
[May 2, 2007, 8:15]
Lindows-Microsoft battle cleared for trial
News Microsoft had appealed a February ruling in which a federal judge ruled that the term is a generic one if it was generic in November 1985, when Microsoft introduced Windows 1.0. The federal lawsuit is just one of several legal battles between the...
[May 25, 2004, 11:15]
Microsoft hit by $388m patent verdict
News Microsoft had initially won a summary judgment ruling, which would have ended the case in its favour, but Uniloc appealed that ruling and a federal appeals court last year ruled that the case needed to go to trial with regard to two counts.
[April 9, 2009, 9:48]
Judge slams door on Napster
News A federal judge on Wednesday issued a surprise injunction requiring Napster to block all copyrighted music on its site. Patel bought the recording industry's argument that Napster resisted complying with federal law by failing to pay royalties to...
[July 27, 2000, 8:56]
Microsoft case's big loser: The judge
News This is remarkable to have a federal judge do what he did and have an appeals court make this kind of ruling," said Ky Ewing, a partner at Washington, DC law firm Vinson & Elkins and chairman of the antitrust section of the American Bar Association.
[June 29, 2001, 9:51]
Russians to be tried under DMCA
News A US federal judge on Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss criminal charges against a Russian software company accused of selling a product designed to break anti-copying technology. Wednesday's decision follows a similar decision from a federal...
[May 9, 2002, 14:02]
