software patents court
Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?
Comment Richard Taylor interprets the High Court's software patents ruling While data can be made available to prosecute transgressors in court, representatives have yet to determine just how - and how much - information would be shared among ISPs. [22 Feb 2008]
Legal Eye: High Court's patent sense
Comment But initial coverage may have overstated the importance of the ruling, because the European Patent Office (EPO) has long been granting software patents that are enforceable in the UK. Software patents are a controversial field - as anyone who... [13 Feb 2008]
Microsoft rolls over for EU antitrust ruling
News The software giant will now have to license interoperability information it claims is covered by its patents at a royalty rate of 0.4 per cent, instead of the 5.95 per cent it had previously sought. Microsoft has agreed to comply with a 2004 EU... [23 Oct 2007]
Qualcomm ban hits 3G handset imports
News Qualcomm also said it is working closely with its customers and the operators on implementing new software that will provide a work-around to the patents. Qualcomm is running out of options as a trade ban goes into effect that will prohibit the... [07 Aug 2007]
Lawyer: Microsoft can evade GPL 3
News Kay Lam-Beattie, principal with intellectual property lawyers Idealaw, said that based on the limited information available to the public, the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) efforts to hinder Microsoft's bullying over patents are likely to be... [26 Jul 2007]
Microsoft tactics akin to "patent terrorism" - Sun
News Earlier this month, IBM released more than 150 patents, in an exercise through which the company claims to "defuse the growing tide of litigation around software IP". The efforts of Microsoft to pressure the Linux community over alleged and... [24 Jul 2007]
Has the Supreme Court killed off patent trolls?
News A unanimous US Supreme Court ruling has backed away from a decades-old legal test that high-tech companies argue has sparked an abundance of obvious patents. In a hotly anticipated decision that could make it easier to challenge patents of... [01 May 2007]
Shock: Microsoft hit with $1.5bn patent ruling
News He said: "Given this verdict, it wouldn't surprise me if Lucent is even more aggressive in the marketplace about licensing its patents but it has always been aggressive. Leibnitz earlier represented Dolby Labs in a patent dispute over whether one... [23 Feb 2007]
IBM hits server seller with patent suit
News IBM, which filed the suit last week in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, claims Platform Solutions (PSI) has violated the terms of a customer agreement with the technology giant and infringed five patents. [07 Dec 2006]
RIM's nemesis slaps Palm with patent suit
News In a lawsuit filed in District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia on Monday, NTP asserted that Palm's products, services, systems and processes infringe on NTP's patents. Palm's line of Treo smart phones, the Palm VII, Palm i700 and Palm... [07 Nov 2006]
AT&T-Microsoft patent spat: Court weighs in
News The telephone company alleged the speech codec software included in Windows loaded on computers infringed on one of its patents, which covered a "digital speech coder". A federal judge in New York decided Microsoft was liable for infringement of... [30 Oct 2006]
IBM sues Amazon over IP infringement
News IBM has also been slammed as hypocritical by some anti-patent campaigners following a decision last year to allow open source developers to use 500 software patents without fear of an infringement lawsuit. [24 Oct 2006]
Intel hit with energy-efficiency patent suit
News It alleges Intel violated 10 of its patents and that the intellectual property behind these patents is embodied in $100bn worth of chips sold by Intel. The patents relate to power efficiency. Transmeta alleges Intel infringed on one of its patents... [12 Oct 2006]
Tech giants cheer patent system overhaul
News Just before departing for their summer recess on Thursday, Utah Republican Orrin Hatch and Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, who serve as chairmen of the US Senate's intellectual property panel, introduced a 45-page bill that proposes a number of... [07 Aug 2006]
EC excludes software from patent law
News Even if the Community Patent legislation does allow software patents to be invalidated in court, this is not enough, according to the FFII's Hintjens. Therefore software patents not yet taken to court will impose an enormous burden on the industry. [25 May 2006]
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