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Microsoft Asks Supreme Court To Take Case
News In a move that was widely anticipated, Microsoft on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to take its antitrust appeal. Is there any reason for the nine judges of the Supreme Court to weigh into that? Andy Gavil, an antitrust professor with Howard...
[August 8, 2001, 9:21]
Supreme Court Backs Off DVD Case
News The US Supreme Court has bowed out of a long-running dispute over a DVD descrambling utility, dealing a preliminary defeat to Hollywood studios and electronics makers. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor placed a ruling by the California Supreme Court on...
[January 6, 2003, 8:06]
Supreme Court Rules In Favour Of EBay
News A unanimous US Supreme Court on Monday sided with eBay in an ongoing patent spat, handing down a ruling that could make it harder for some patent holders to force shut-offs of infringing products in the future.
[May 16, 2006, 10:00]
Supreme Court To Review Microsoft Patent Appeal
News The US Supreme Court has agreed to wade into a patent case involving Microsoft and AT&T. At issue before the Supreme Court is whether those decisions are consistent with a complex portion of patent law that deals with American companies' liability...
[October 30, 2006, 12:53]
Grokster, The Supreme Court, And Us
News On Monday morning, the US Supreme Court ruled that peer-to-peer companies could be held liable for the widespread copyright infringement of their users. The case will go back to the Los Angeles trial court, where the judge will be bound by the...
[June 28, 2005, 17:20]
Supreme Court Rules Against File Swapping
News The US Supreme Court handed movie studios and record labels a sweeping victory against file-swapping, ruling on Monday that peer-to-peer companies such as Grokster could be held responsible for the copyright piracy on their networks.
[June 27, 2005, 20:20]
Supreme Court Declines Microsoft Appeal
News The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Microsoft's request to hear an appeal of its antitrust case. We're disappointed that our petition is not one of the few the Supreme Court chose to review this term," said Microsoft spokesman Vivek Varma.
[October 9, 2001, 15:53]
Supreme Court Hears File-swapping Case
News Hollywood studios and record companies on Friday asked the United States Supreme Court to overturn a controversial series of recent court decisions that have kept file-swapping software legal. In a joint petition to the Supreme Court, the Motion...
[October 11, 2004, 9:30]
HP Blade Servers Power Arizona Supreme Court's Innovative Applications
White Papers After struggling with early, one-size-fits-all court automation products, the Arizona Supreme Court took matters into its own hands. The court is using advanced technologies - such as XML standards and object-oriented programming tools that dissect...
[May 24, 2006, 0:00]
Supreme Court Nixes Copyright Challenge
News The US Supreme Court on Wednesday said Congress had the power to extend the duration of copyrights, a decision that dealt a grave blow to a growing movement against more expansive legal protections of artistic works.
[January 16, 2003, 9:09]
Supreme Court To Hear Case On 'obviousness' Of Patents
News One key gripe about the patent process is expected to take centre stage before the US Supreme Court on Tuesday morning. Several Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Intel and Cisco Systems, have submitted supporting briefs that urge the Supreme...
[November 28, 2006, 10:02]
Supreme Court Allows Handover Of Intel Documents To EU
News The US Supreme Court ruled 7-1 on Monday that confidential Intel documents can be turned over to European antitrust officials, dealing a setback to the chipmaker. AMD recommended that the EU seek documents that Intel had filed in an unrelated...
[June 21, 2004, 17:05]
Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Spam Challenge
News The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from an online dating service that claimed it had the right to send unsolicited emails to thousands of University of Texas email accounts. In February 2003, White Buffalo legally obtained a...
[January 10, 2006, 9:10]
Supreme Court Avoids Sony/Connectix Suit
News The US Supreme Court has declined to rule on Sony's appeal of a lower-court decision dismissing its copyright claims against Connectix. In February, the electronics giant lost its case in the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that the...
[October 3, 2000, 10:03]
Supreme Court Rules Against File Swapping
Talkback Almost everything of significance to do with the Net was invented by Britons - computers, packet-switching, the Web, adsl, etc, etc.
[September 11, 2005, 6:38]
Supreme Court Rules Against File Swapping
Talkback Pete N - you are a narrow minded moron and should keep your ridiculous comments to yourself. I would suggest buying a dictionary to correct your very poor spelling & grammar and maybe look to get a hobby.or a life !
[September 14, 2005, 13:03]
Supreme Court Rules Against File Swapping
Talkback Hus.K : "The USA did not Invent the Internet perhaps in your warped Imagination they did. It was actually Tim Berners Lee who did invented the internet (although not all of it) and he's British" Tim Berners Lee invented the internet did he?
[June 29, 2005, 13:22]
Supreme Court Rules Against File Swapping
Talkback I think this latest judgement is ridiculous. It is possible to use the postal service to send copyrighted material,so then shouldn't we also hold the postal services responsible for "encouraging" breaches of copyright?
[June 30, 2005, 0:53]
Supreme Court Rules Against File Swapping
Talkback Perhaps the US doesn't understand the Internet or even software for that matter. How can you check for copyrighted files without having to enforce draconic measurements on your customers (bye privacy) and without resorting to software that's...
[June 27, 2005, 21:12]
Supreme Court Rules Against File Swapping
Talkback Anonymous : "This may have been a setback, but the corps won't win! They will. Those who continue to steal music and movies, most of which are produced in America, will have the full force of the law brought to bear upon them, fined and put in jail...
[June 28, 2005, 23:09]
