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Patent defeat for Microsoft and Autodesk
News The East Texas Federal District Court is a frequent destination for patent infringement complaints, like this summer's Red Hat-JBoss lawsuit, because of its reputation for efficiency on cases in that field.
[August 24, 2006, 9:20]
Red Hat hit by patent claims
News In a complaint filed in US District Court in Texas this week, FireStar Software claims that JBoss' Hibernate 3.0 infringes on its patent for linking relational databases with object-oriented software.
[July 3, 2006, 10:30]
Microsoft to make case in Word injunction appeal
News In August, Judge Leonard Davis of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas raised the amount of the damages awarded and also ordered the injunction. Earlier this year, a federal jury in Texas found that recent versions of Word, which...
[September 23, 2009, 14:41]
BlackBerry maker countersues Visto
News At the time its suit was filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Texas, Visto was fresh off a patent infringement victory involving similar claims in the same court over another rival, called Seven Networks.
[May 8, 2006, 9:50]
Microsoft pushes for single global patent system
News In August, US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or...
[September 2, 2009, 16:03]
No backdown from CSIRO over Wi-Fi patents
News February 2005: CSIRO lodges a suit against Buffalo Technology for alleged patent violation in the Eastern District of Texas Court as a test case for its patent November 2006: CSIRO has its patent upheld by the Eastern District of Texas Court in its...
[October 2, 2007, 11:14]
Former McAfee exec wants damages made public
News Depending on what happens in Monday's hearing before Judge Carlos Cortez in the 44th District Court in Dallas, the information may stay confidential indefinitely. Separately, he filed an action for defamation and breach of his stock option...
[August 24, 2009, 11:57]
Sony's rootkit woes aren't over
News Sony still has to contend with a consortium of 13 states, including Massachusetts, Nebraska and Florida, that is expected to look for a similar deal, according to Jeff McGrath, deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County, which took part in...
[December 21, 2006, 8:20]
Microsoft ordered to stop selling Word
News Judge Leonard Davis of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening...
[August 12, 2009, 8:55]
Google, Apple, others hit by Eolas patent lawsuit
News The US District Court suit, filed in the eastern district of Texas, seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions prohibiting the plaintiffs from using the patented technology; payment for damages from infringement, including treble damages because...
[October 7, 2009, 8:26]
Patent company takes on Wi-Fi industry
News The suit was filed in the Eastern District of Texas — the same district in which the Australian science organisation CSIRO is suing various companies over Wi-Fi patents. The companies being sued include — among others — Acer, Apple, Belkin...
[November 2, 2007, 9:45]
RIM coughs up for JPEG patent
News Forgent sued Microsoft for patent infringement in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in April after Microsoft went to court asking for a declaratory judgment that it didn't infringe the Forgent patent.
[October 28, 2005, 8:45]
Arlington Independent School District Deploys Unified Communications to Cost-Effectively Enhance School Safety
White Papers The Arlington Independent School District (AISD) is the ninth largest school district in Texas, with 74 school campuses and 63,000 students. Arlington Independent School District (ISD) wanted to ensure effective emergency communication and cost...
[June 18, 2008, 1:01]
HISD Keeps Email Running With Help From Trend Micro ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange
White Papers The Houston Independent School District (HISD) is the largest public school district in Texas, and the seventh largest in the United States. HISD's Electronic Messaging Coordinator is responsible for maintaining and updating the Exchange servers...
[March 8, 2007, 0:00]
School District Portal Speeds Communications, Cuts Prep Time in Half for Paperless Meetings
White Papers Keller Independent School District, a fast-growing district in Texas, relied on e-mail for almost all communication and collaboration - and its Linux-based GroupWise system couldn't keep up. So, the district built an intranet portal based on...
[August 28, 2009, 1:22]
Novell Case Study: Alvarado Independent School District
White Papers Alvarado Independent School District is a growing K-12 school district in North Texas with an economically diverse population of 3,400 students. The district selected Novell Identity Manager, Novell Storage Manager, and the SIFWorks Zone...
[April 5, 2007, 1:00]
School District Controls Web Content and Stops Spyware With Barracuda Networks
White Papers Kingsville Independent School District, located in the southern Texas city of Kingsville, was established in 1909. The IT Department was not only dealing with the increasing need for aggressive Web content filtering to block access to inappropriate...
[June 16, 2007, 1:00]
Cisco Partner TFE Delivers Powerful Cisco Converged Network for New Texas High School
White Papers The Burnet Independent School District (ISD) serves a growing community located west of Austin, Texas. Burnet has always been a forward-thinking district when it comes to technology. When it came time to construct a new high school for the district...
[June 2, 2006, 0:00]
Progress Software Case Study: Tarrant County
White Papers The company implemented a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for real-time information access across the criminal justice agencies, including the District Attorney, first responders and corrections. For Tarrant County, Texas, real-time...
[December 25, 2008, 0:00]
HP sues Acer in patent clash
News The complaint, filed on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, seeks to prevent Acer from selling computers in the US. In a clash between two of the world's biggest computer companies, HP is suing Acer for patent...
[March 28, 2007, 8:39]
