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Patent Claim Threatens Streaming Industry
News Michael Roe, proprietor of the small RadioIO Webcasting station, got a surprise FedEx package this week, containing a notification that he was violating patents owned by a company he'd never heard of.
[February 6, 2003, 12:26]
Vonage Gets Last-minute Lifeline
News According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company has signed a deal with a wholesaler of VoIP services called Voiceone, owned by a company called VoIP Inc, that could provide it with a workaround for at least two...
[April 4, 2007, 8:57]
Microsoft Wins Reversal Of MP3-patent Decision
News The new ruling holds that one of the patents in the case was not actually owned outright by Lucent and, since Microsoft had a licence to that particular patent through its co-owner, the software giant is being let off the hook.
[August 7, 2007, 12:03]
SCO Says Threat To Linux Creator Was Overstated
News Novell, which owned Unix rights before selling at least some of them to SCO's predecessor in 1995, on Wednesday disputed that SCO has copyrights and patents for Unix. SCO sued IBM for more than $1bn (£600m) in March, alleging Big Blue illegally...
[May 30, 2003, 8:14]
Patent Ruling Creates Ripples On Net
News In 1998, the company sued the Internet site CDNow, owned by media titan Bertelsmann, for infringement of patents filed in the late 1980s. The patent ruling, while not final, is a sign that more of the most basic technologies and techniques...
[November 4, 2003, 14:20]
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. Huntsville, Alabama-based Intergraph, once a close ally of Intel's in the workstation market...
[October 11, 2002, 7:40]
Nokia Sued Over Mobile Patents
News According to Qualcomm, Nokia has infringed 11 patents that owned by Qualcomm or its subsidiary SnapTrack. The patents relate to GSM - the most common standard for mobile phones with more than 1.6 billion sales worldwide - as well as data standards...
[November 7, 2005, 13:30]
Mystery Surrounds Web Patents Acquisition
News On the United States Bankruptcy Court auction block were 39 patents owned by Commerce One, a bankrupt software company in Santa Clara, California, that's in the process of shutting down and liquidating its assets.
[December 7, 2004, 10:00]
Linux 'infringes 283 Patents' - Insurance Group
News Of the 283 patents, 98 are owned by Linux allies, OSRM said, including 60 from IBM, 20 from Hewlett-Packard and 11 from Intel. Linux potentially infringes 283 patents, including 27 held by Microsoft but none that have been validated by court...
[August 2, 2004, 8:40]
Lloyd's To Provide Open Source IP Indemnity
Talkback If it doesn't move they'll sue it in case it moves later and then claim they owned the intellectual rights to it's CEO's breakfast since last year. "All your patents are belong to us! Muhhahahahaha "chuckles microsoft.
[August 18, 2005, 14:29]
Microsoft Pips Apple To IPod Patent
Talkback If it doesn't move they'll sue it in case it moves later and then claim they owned the intellectual rights to it's CEO's breakfast since last year. "All your patents are belong to us! Muhhahahahaha "chuckles microsoft.
[August 15, 2005, 11:00]
Microsoft Patents May Threaten Open Source
News We believe this technology and infrastructure is too important to be controlled and wholly owned by Microsoft. But Miguel de Icaza, the chief technical officer at Ximian, disagreed with Perens, saying that any application that runs on Linux could...
[August 29, 2001, 9:14]
European Software Patents 'a Done Deal'
News European companies and developers have been particularly protective of open-source development because it is seen as a local alternative to relying on proprietary products owned by US companies. The European Commission and European Parliament are...
[June 26, 2003, 15:28]
Qualcomm 3G Phone Ban To Take Effect
News Qualcomm is running out of options as a trade ban goes into effect that will prohibit the import into the US of any 3G handset using Qualcomm chips that have been found to infringe on patents owned by rival Broadcom.
[August 7, 2007, 10:52]
Qualcomm Vs Nokia: Seconds Out, Round Three
News Qualcomm claims Nokia is engaging in unfair trade practices by importing and selling phones that Qualcomm says infringe on six Qualcomm-owned patents relating to the GSM mobile standard. The handset maker added in a statement: "While we are still...
[June 13, 2006, 11:25]
Microsoft And Intel Fall Out Over BlackBerry Case
News Friend-of-the-court briefs filed last week by both companies and reviewed by ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com reveal that Microsoft wants the courts to re-evaluate a 2002 district court decision that found BlackBerry maker Research In Motion...
[September 6, 2005, 9:35]
Court Denies Vonage Request For Retrial
News In March, a jury found that Vonage had infringed three patents owned by Verizon, the second largest phone company in the US. The company has also argued that the patents are invalid because there were plenty of other companies that had filed...
[May 4, 2007, 9:08]
Intel Vs. Via - Now The Battle's Global
News While the suits filed today are similar to Intel's first lawsuit, Intel has added causes of action alleging that Via's C3 microprocessor violates patents owned by Intel. Santa Clara, California-based Intel claims Via's chipset, called the P4X266...
[September 27, 2001, 9:02]
Net Patent Could Derail Tech Titans
News While it is unclear how much credit is due Northrup, his patent is referenced in portions of separate patents owned by Microsoft, IBM and Novell. During the summer, database developer Oracle acquired Strategic Processing, a company that owned a...
[October 30, 2001, 9:01]
Russia Tweaks Laws To Drive IT Growth
News In 1998, when the national government passed a law that decreed the government owned all patents, patent applications dropped to zero, he said. Similarly, Alexander Galitsky, a Russian entrepreneur who worked with Sun Microsystems in the 90s on...
[January 30, 2004, 8:40]
