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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court overturned on Monday a ruling that Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research should be held liable for patent infringement on copies of the Windows operating system sold overseas.

Apple is facing a jury trial over allegations it ripped off a US patent filed by Xerox way back in 1987. At issue: Mac OS X 10.4's use of tabs and other UI elements to flip between different panels within a single window.

Each copy of Windows cost users an additional $21.50 "patent tax" to cover Microsoft litigation bills, the Software Freedom Law Center claims.

A patent licensing agreement between Nokia and Qualcomm has expired without being renewed. The agreement is the subject of legal action in the US and Europe.

Analysis Amazon.com has adopted an unusual and potentially self-destructive legal tactic in its defense of its 1-Click patent family.

Internet telephony provider Vonage, which is facing a possible shutdown of its service this week because of a patent dispute, may have been granted a stay of execution.

In a clash between two of the world's biggest computer companies, HP is suing Acer for patent infringement.

US phone company Vonage has been ordered to stop using technology which a court has ruled violates patents held by mobile phone company Verizon.

Oracle has licensed patents of the Open Invention Network, a group seeking to give open source allies some clout in an intellectual property realm that favours the incumbent proprietary software powers.

HELSINKI, March 19 (Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday it had filed complaints against Qualcomm (QCOM.O: Quote, Profile, Research) patents in Germany and the Netherlands in the latest case between the two technology giants. 

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled that Google Inc.'s (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) 3D modeling software, which gives Web users an astronaut's view of the earth and allows them to zoom down to street level, does not infringe the patent of a rival.

A week after Microsoft was ordered to hand over $1.5bn in an Alcatel-Lucent MP3 patent dispute, a federal judge has ruled that the Windows maker did not violate a patent at the heart of a second trial that was set to begin soon.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge dismissed Alcatel-Lucent's (ALU.PA: Quote, Profile, Research)(ALU.N: Quote, Profile, Research) patent claim against Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) over technology that converts speech into text, the two companies said on Friday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - When Canon Inc. (7751.T: Quote, Profile, Research) was sued by a small, money-losing U.S. technology firm two years ago, the dispute was over a patent license that had cost the Japanese electronics giant a one-time payment of $5.6 million.