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Most Rambus Claims Thrown Out Of Court
News Judge Robert Payne of the US District Court in Richmond, Virginia said Rambus' case had failed to prove that a large number of Rambus' 104 US patents had been incorporated into Infineon's memory products, following non-disclosure technical...
[May 1, 2001, 11:40]
Spam Case - Virgin Settles Out Of Court
News The writ against Surrey businessman Adrian Paris who was charged with spamming Virgin Net customers in April was settled out of court last week. Virgin Net business development director David Johnson said that although the case will be seen by many...
[May 26, 1999, 13:17]
Sun And Kodak Settle Out Of Court
News The settlement, announced on Thursday, comes less than a week after a jury in US District Court in western New York ruled in Kodak's favour over accusations that Java violated three Kodak patents. We are pleased that the court has validated these...
[October 8, 2004, 9:45]
Sun And Kodak Settle Out Of Court
Talkback You know an OS is a program and a BIOS is a program too. So when the OS calls the BIOS without Eastman Kodak's license this may be a case of patent infringement, right? As such a fundamental methodology was granted to be a patent, there were some...
[October 8, 2004, 22:43]
SCO Rules Out Further Court Cases
News We want to have our claims heard before a court," McBride told the Financial Times. SCO, the US software vendor that has angered most of the open-source community with its claim that its proprietary Unix source code has been illegally copied into...
[August 4, 2004, 12:35]
Court Throws Out Via Charges Against Intel
News The English High Court has ruled against Via Technologies in a lawsuit against chipmaker Intel over the licensing of Pentium 4 patents, ruling that Intel's refusal to license the technology to Via did not constitute market abuse.
[June 20, 2002, 15:50]
Norwegian Hacker Takes A Bite Out Of Apple's ITunes
News In 2003, he narrowly escaped criminal charges, brought by Hollywood, after a Norwegian court found him justified in developing the program to view legally bought DVDs on his Linux machine. Jon Lech Johansen, the Norwegian hacker famous for cracking...
[August 12, 2004, 16:35]
DVD Copier Driven Out Of Business
News DVD copying software maker 321 Studios has closed its doors, driven out of business by a succession of court decisions that said its most popular product was illegal to distribute. In a posting on its Web site, the company said it could no longer...
[August 4, 2004, 12:10]
Microsoft Seeks To Shut Lindows Out Of Settlement
News In a motion filed earlier this month with the Superior Court of California for San Francisco County, Microsoft asked Judge Paul H Alvarado to reject all claims processed by the Lindows site, which offers to help people gain benefits from Microsoft...
[November 11, 2003, 8:30]
Sun Has Betrayed Us All
Talkback Sun Did Fight Kodak In Court. Instead of fighting the patent claims that Kodak raised over Java, Sun has settled out of court" you conveniently forgot to mention the prolonged court battle Sun has been in with Kodak over this very matter.
[October 10, 2004, 4:15]
Mobile Risk: Could Cancer Lawsuits Come To Europe?
News If the impending lawsuit against Motorola is successful in the US, it could force mobile phone manufacturers here to settle out of court in similar cases. Robin Bynoe, partner at Charles Russell law firm in London, believes a defeat in the US could...
[August 4, 2000, 10:20]
Mystery Surrounds Web Patents Acquisition
News A mysterious bidder paid $15.5m on Monday in a bankruptcy court auction of dozens of Internet-related patents -- and then rushed out of the courtroom. On the United States Bankruptcy Court auction block were 39 patents owned by Commerce One, a...
[December 7, 2004, 10:00]
Java Founder Condemns Sun-Kodak Patent Settlement
News The father of Java -- James Gosling -- has called the recent court case between Sun and Eastman Kodak over patents "a complete atrocity". As part of an out-of-court settlement of the case, Sun agreed to pay Eastman Kodak $92m dollars to license the...
[December 17, 2004, 7:50]
Court Sets Back Sun's Java Push
News A federal appeals court dealt a legal setback to Sun Microsystems on Thursday, tossing out most of a preliminary injunction requiring Microsoft to carry its rival's version of an interpreter for the Java programming language.
[June 27, 2003, 8:41]
Napster Faces Further Legal Action
News Unimpressed by Napster's efforts to strip copyright songs out of its file-trading network, the record industry says it will go to court next week to complain that the company is flouting the terms of a court order.
[March 22, 2001, 8:37]
BSkyB Partner Closes UK Operations
Talkback I was made redundant when working out of the Saltney depot near Cheser England.BSC made an unlawfull deduction of £806 out of my wages.Court action was taken against BSC and reached the high court of London.BSC was orderd to return any monies...
[December 6, 2003, 4:40]
US Report: Microsoft Seeks Dismissal Of Government's Suit
News He also said Microsoft could be on shaky legal ground by repeatedly citing the Appeals Court decision because that ruling only dealt with whether the company broke a 1995 consent decree, not whether it widely violated antitrust laws.
[August 11, 1998, 9:57]
McBride Denied Telephone Service
Talkback If the lawyers can argue their case and refer to some obscure law, taken completely out of context, the court will rule in their favour, no matter how pathetic the case is or how poorly the law was defined.
[February 6, 2004, 19:16]
Microsoft Fails To Have Monopoly Lawsuit Dismissed
News A New York state appeals court has rejected Microsoft's attempt to throw out a class-action suit alleging deceptive and monopolistic business practices. The state Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the lawsuit could continue, overruling part of a...
[June 10, 2004, 9:15]
Fortinet Settles GPL Violation Suit
Talkback Most of the time this is accomplished via out-of-court settlements because it's cheap and everyone walks away happy and can get on with business. Dragging things into court is the worst option and always the last - in a court battle, only the...
[April 27, 2005, 22:46]
