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News Google has already lost earlier rounds of a court dispute with Copiepresse, which has argued Google had violated copyright law by failing to secure permission before using headlines and snippets of Belgian French- and... [28 May 2008]
Skype drops open-source appeal
News The company has dropped its appeal against its conviction last July in a German court of failure to comply with the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). This was thrown out by the appeals... [12 May 2008]
SAP to sell TomorrowNow
News German software giant SAP is to auction its subsidiary, TomorrowNow, only two years after acquiring the company. In July 2007 SAP acknowledged in a court filing that TomorrowNow had engaged in... [16 Jan 2008]
T-Mobile forced to unlock iPhone by German court
News Last week Vodafone went to the German courts to argue Apple's deal with T-Mobile was anti-competitive. A spokesperson for Vodafone told silicon.com's sister site ZDNet.co.uk that it had resorted to the courts not because... [23 Nov 2007]
iSoft's Oz takeover gets shareholder thumbs-up
News IBA's initial offer to iSoft was destabilised in July by German company CompuGroup, which then announced it had already acquired 23.4 per cent of iSoft from its existing shareholders - some 56.6 million shares. [08 Oct 2007]
Judge throws out $1.5bn MP3 decision
News One of those patents, the judge ruled Friday, was actually co-owned by AT&T, Lucent's former parent company, and a German company called Fraunhofer, with which Microsoft had a licensing agreement to use the patented... [07 Aug 2007]
The great working from home experiment
News After several IM conversations between the team, managing editor Sylvia is able to get access via CNET's German VPN and we manage to send our daily newsletter - arguably one of the most important tasks of the day - at... [21 May 2007]
Googlemail now open to all-comers
News Google's woes did not end there: across Western Europe, a quiet battle rages on between Google and Daniel Giersch, a German-born venture capitalist who insists he'll never relinquish his six-year-old trademark... [08 Feb 2007]
Watchdog hits back at Jobs' DRM dream
News Since the Scandinavian revolt, French and German groups have also announced their intention to take Apple to task over DRM. Norway is one of three Scandinavian countries - along with Denmark and Sweden - that is tackling... [07 Feb 2007]
Yahoo! gets copyright warning shot
News A group representing French- and German-language Belgian newspaper publishers has sent legal warnings to Yahoo! Microsoft, since being contacted by Copiepresse, has been working out an agreement to remove certain links... [22 Jan 2007]
Apple gets lawyers in over 'pod' companies
News A German company, Liquid Air Tab, was sued by Apple earlier this year when the Mac maker alleged that Liquid Air Tab's Spodradio product infringed on its iPod trademark. Sarah Wright, intellectual property solicitor at... [15 Aug 2006]
Apple sues German firm over 'spod'
News A German tech company has found itself on the receiving end of legal action by Apple over the word 'spod'. The company behind iTunes has filed a preliminary action in a Hamburg court against Liquid Air... [06 Jan 2006]
Tsunami 'hacker' gets IT security day job
News Last year, German firewall vendor Securepoint was criticised after hiring Sven Jaschan, a teenager who had been charged - and was subsequently convicted - of writing the Sasser worm. He claimed in court... [11 Nov 2005]
Libya jails blogger
News German radio station Deutsche Welle had nominated Wang's site in the "freedom of expression" category of its blog contest. In the Libya case, a court in Tripoli convicted blogger Abd al-Raziq al-Mansuri,... [07 Nov 2005]
Google to face new lawsuit over Gmail?
News Independent II Research may file a lawsuit against Google in collaboration with a German company that has a similar complaint against the use of the Gmail name, he said. A court temporarily ordered... [14 Sep 2005]
