Google Legal Move Could Alter Course of Oracle Trial
Google's decision this week to ask the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office to re-examine a number of the Oracle patents at issue in the companies' ongoing intellectual-property case could have a...
View ArticleGoogle Legal Move Could Alter Course of Oracle Trial
Google's decision this week to ask the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office to re-examine a number of the Oracle patents at issue in the companies' ongoing intellectual-property case could have a...
View ArticleEx-Apple Manager Pleads Guilty to $2.3M Kickback Scheme
A former Apple manager accused of accepting kickbacks from Asian iPhone and iPod accessory suppliers pleaded guilty Monday in federal court and has been ordered to forfeit $2.3 million in money and...
View ArticleBlocking Online Product Sales May Breach EU Competition Law
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) looks set to rule that companies blocking online product sales are breaching European Union competition law.
View ArticleMicrosoft and Google Team Up Against Geotagging Patent
Archrivals Microsoft and Google have teamed up to sue a company called GeoTag, claiming the company improperly used a patent to file lawsuits against several hundred organizations.
View ArticleCustomer Sues Infor After ERP License Audit
A New York manufacturer is suing ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor following a dispute over whether it should have to pay nearly US$150,000 in additional license fees.
View ArticleCustomer Sues Infor After ERP License Audit
A New York manufacturer is suing ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor following a dispute over whether it should have to pay nearly US$150,000 in additional license fees.
View ArticleGoogle, Amazon Face Lawsuits Over Search
Software development company MasterObjects sued Amazon and Google this week, charging the companies with infringing on a patent for technology that presents possible complete search terms as users type...
View ArticleGoogle, Amazon Face Lawsuits Over Search
Software development company MasterObjects sued Amazon and Google this week, charging the companies with infringing on a patent for technology that presents possible complete search terms as users type...
View Article5 Legal Gotchas in the Cloud
Don't sign a cloud computing contract until you consider five areas that are fraught with risk in the cloud. The red flags include not only data security and privacy, but also e-discovery, search...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Persistence Brings Software Patent Fight to Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments on i4i's patent lawsuit against Microsoft, and the software industry is holding out hope that a pro-Microsoft ruling will help bring sanity to a...
View ArticleLinux Patent Protection Network Gets Boost From Facebook, HP
Facebook, HP, Rackspace, Juniper, Fujitsu and dozens of other organizations have joined a group building a defensive patent portfolio to protect Linux-using members from potential lawsuits.
View ArticleBotnet Takedown Sets Legal, Not Technical, Precedent
Security experts applaud the U.S. Department of Justice's foray into more aggressive tactics against cybercrime
View ArticleWhy Samsung Took the Apple Patent Battle International
It is no surprise that Samsung retaliated against Apple's claims of patent infringement with some patent accusations of its own, but the fact that Samsung chose to file lawsuits internationally against...
View ArticleData Breach Fines Can Risk More Harm Than Good, Experts Say
Are regulatory and security breach fines protecting the consumer, or beginning to unduly drive security policy? As penalties begin to be levied against organizations who have been attacked, or...
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