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Apple Computer Wins Court Battle With Beatles
News On Monday the High Court in London ruled that Apple Computer was not liable for trademark infringement because the use of the Apple logo on its iTunes Music Store was not associated with the music it was selling, and thus did not breach a previous...
[May 8, 2006, 12:05]
How Will The Election Affect IR35?
News At the High Court recently, a body representing the UK's self-employed IT contractors argued that the government's IR35 tax rules are illegal. IR35 battle to hit the High Court Fri, 11 May The Conservative leader says he will get rid of the...
[May 19, 2001, 10:06]
Future Of Memory Market Hangs On Rambus Trials
News Rambus, which designs high-speed memory chips, will square off this week against chipmakers Micron Technology and Hyundai in a German court case that will, along with the outcome of other pending cases, send shockwaves through the entire memory...
[February 12, 2001, 12:51]
News Roundup: Microsoft's Antitrust Triumph
News Microsoft's victory in an appeals court on Thursday could see the company return to its old aggressive tactics. Court ruling could make Microsoft bolder than ever Fri 29 June Microsoft's victory in an appeals court on Thursday could see the company...
[June 29, 2001, 15:34]
SCO Prepares To Send Invoices For Linux
News Some intellectual property attorneys have argued that businesses that take SCO's threats seriously shouldn't pay now, but rather should set money aside in the event that SCO wins in court. I can't see why a company would pay this, since it is all...
[September 3, 2003, 8:50]
Patent Suit Could Hurt EBay
News The trial is scheduled for 12 November in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. MercExchange has suggested a specific figure to settle the case, but the court has sealed the report and the amount sought is unavailable, said...
[September 5, 2002, 13:28]
Tory Party Promises To Abolish IR35
News While IT consultants try to work out how the recent high court ruling on IR35 affects them, the Conservative Party has vowed to abolish the controversial tax if it wins the coming General Election. But critics of IR35 say it will drive thousands of...
[May 11, 2001, 16:43]
News Roundup: IR35 In The High Court
News At the High Court this week, a body representing the UK's self-employed IT contractors have been arguing that the government's IR35 tax rules are illegal. IR35 battle to hit the High Court Fri, 11 May The Conservative leader says he will get rid of...
[March 16, 2001, 10:50]
IR35 Tax Battle Hits The Courts
News The conflict over the government's controversial IR35 tax hit the High Court on Tuesday morning, as representatives of the UK's independent IT and engineering contractors took their claim that IR35 is illegal to a judicial review.
[March 13, 2001, 11:42]
Microsoft Concedes Royalties In Antitrust Offering
News The Commission nevertheless considers that, if the Court of First Instance rules in favour of the Commission in the pending application for annulment filed by Microsoft, this should be possible for the protocols that do not embody innovations...
[June 6, 2005, 13:05]
Microsoft Remakes Its .NET Pitch
News Microsoft, whose stock has traded sideways for months, put on a full-court press Thursday to convince Wall Street that the future of computing is still being dreamed up in Redmond. Indeed, Chris Atkinson, who runs the company's .NET Solutions group...
[July 28, 2000, 11:11]
Microsoft Wins UK's Largest Piracy Case
News Ian Tuppen and Subhash (Sibbs) Singh, along with Backslash Distribution Ltd, Taurus Data Services Ltd, Kingswood Services Ltd and Springfields Services Ltd will be forced to compensate Microsoft for the counterfeit software.
[July 6, 1999, 12:40]
News Burst: Microsoft Wins UK's Largest Piracy Case
News Ian Tuppen and Subhash (Sibbs) Singh, along with Backslash Distribution Ltd, Taurus Data Services Ltd, Kingswood Services Ltd and Springfields Services Ltd will be forced to compensate Microsoft for the counterfeit software.
[July 6, 1999, 10:14]
Microsoft Wins Bristol Antitrust Case
News After two days of deliberation, a jury in federal court in Bridgeport, Conn.on Friday ruled that Microsoft didn't violate antitrust law when it raised the prices on its source code. Microsoft is in the middle of a sweeping, high-profile antitrust...
[July 19, 1999, 8:47]
Sony Wins Landmark Case Against Mod Chips
News The UK high court ruled on Wednesday that Sony's intellectual property rights were being violated by the practice of "modding", also known as "chipping". An Italian court ruled that console owners have the right to modify their hardware once they...
[July 22, 2004, 14:10]
Freeserve Wins Small Victory In VAT Row
News At the High Court on Wednesday, a court ruled that the Freeserve's case merited a full judicial review. We estimate that £100m of tax has been lost to the Treasury through Customs' failure to apply existing law, and find it extraordinary that we...
[September 26, 2002, 14:23]
BPI Wins Landmark File-sharing Case
News His defence was rejected by the High Court, and summary judgment was granted to the BPI without the need for a trial. Only when they refused to settle did we take them to court, which has now found in our favour.
[January 27, 2006, 16:40]
Ofcom's BT Deal Wins Cautious Support
News An important aspect of the deal is that Ofcom could take BT to the High Court if it fails to deliver on its commitments. The agreement struck between Ofcom and BT this week on the future of telecommunications regulation in the UK has been given a...
[June 23, 2005, 17:45]
CenterSpan Wins Rights To Scour Technology
News The rights to Scour's technology and much of its engineering talent were sold to the highest bidder in a Los Angeles bankruptcy court. That lawsuit, filed in July, eventually led to layoffs and finally Scour's appeal for the court's bankruptcy...
[December 13, 2000, 10:52]
Sucks.com Owner Wins Domain-name Case
News Companies that lose dispute resolution hearings can file suit in federal court to get the domain name. The case is tied up in court in New York. In the most high-profile case so far, pop singer Madonna has filed a claim, seeking rights to his...
[June 20, 2001, 9:20]
