items tagged with Intellectual property rights
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-03-18 06:32:04
The Mount Everest of evidence proving IBM's Linux contributions infringed SCO's intellectual-property rights amount to little more than a mole hill, according to a lawyer for Big Blue, who recently told a federal judge SCO has identified only 326 lines of offending code out of a base of more than 700,000 lines.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-03-14 11:11:47
In a sign the end of the world must be near, a Microsoft exec has been reported by InformationWeek as saying “if they’re going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else”.
Read More About PiracyRUs: Microsoft Asks Users Who Steal Software To Steal From Them...
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-03-14 03:07:30
Microsoft is ramping up legal action against organisations that have registered Microsoft look-alike names. The move follows claims by the World Intellectual Property Organisation that the integrity of the domain name system is under increasing threat from trademark infringements and cybersquatting.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-03-13 08:26:46
GENEVA (Reuters) - The Internet's key site identity system is in mounting danger from new techniques that could cause havoc by turning it into a free-for-all market, the World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO warned on Monday.
Read More About Internet Name System In Growing Danger: U.N. Agency...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2007-03-11 20:46:41
European pressure on DRM schemes that restrict the use of purchased music to particular types of player (think iTunes and iPod) has stepped up a notch.
Read More About Europe Continues Push For ITunes Interoperability...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-03-08 16:16:59
A US court in Dallas has issued a subpoena to Google, seeing information about the identity of the person or people responsible for uploading one video to YouTube and two to Google Video.
Read More About Google Ordered To Disclose Users' Identities...
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-03-08 05:41:21
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.
Read More About Google Earth Patent Infringement Suit Dismissed...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-03-07 08:44:08
Has Google has opened new doors for content providers that the elite content distributors have held tightly shut in the past, or is Google engaging in wholesale copyright infringement?
Read More About Copyright: Microsoft Shot At Google Justified Or Just Garbage?...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2007-03-06 16:44:31
Google Book Search "systematically violates copyright and deprives authors and publishers of an important avenue for monetising their works," a Microsoft lawyer has claimed.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: ZDNet UK
2007-03-05 05:18:29
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.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-03-04 05:17:13
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.
Read More About Judge Rules For Microsoft In Alcatel-Lucent Suit...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2007-02-28 18:16:35
Proposed US legislation restoring at least some of the traditional 'fair use' rights to consumers acquiring copy-protected content have been met with predictable opposition from the RIAA.
Read More About FAIR USE Bill Opposed By RIAA...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2007-02-28 17:19:52
A conference presentation on RFID security risks was delivered in a truncated form after a vendor allegedly put pressure on the speaker's company.
Read More About Black Hats Spooked By RFID Patent...
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-02-27 19:01:32
The release of the third version of the GNU Project's General Public License will be delayed by a few months.
Read More About GPLv3 To Miss March Deadline...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2007-02-27 01:12:52
The US District Court for the Western District of Texas has ruled that Nano-Proprietary was entitled to terminate the licence to its SED (surface-conduction, electron-emitter display) technology granted to Canon in 1999.
Read More About Canon Loses Flat-Panel Licence...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Distribution
2007-02-25 22:27:44
The much-vaunted BitTorrent Entertainment Network, due to debut later today, will offer legitimate movies and TV shows - at a price. But the company isn't selling movies, it's renting them.
Read More About BitTorrent Movie Downloads Just BitsToRent...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2007-02-25 19:45:59
Microsoft's getting embroiled in another intellectual property case, this time over the Office Live trademark which a Los Angeles based company registered in 2002 after using it since 2001.
Read More About Office Live Trademark Stoush Heads For Court...
Written By: Adam Turner
Section: Seeking Nerdvana
Category: The Digital Lounge Room
2007-02-25 16:58:25
As of Monday you'll be able to pay for movie downloads from BitTorrent.com, but why should people use file sharing for good instead of evil?
Read More About BitTorrent Going Legit - But Why Buy When You Can Steal?...
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-02-23 06:31:45
TOKYO (Reuters) - A U.S. court has ruled against Japan's Canon Inc. (7751.T: Quote, Profile, Research) in a patent dispute over flat-panel displays, saying the company violated the license agreement it had with Nano-Proprietary Inc. (NNPP.OB: Quote, Profile, Research).
Read More About U.S. Court Rules Against Canon In Flat-Panel Suit...
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: ZDNet UK
2007-02-23 06:07:11
A federal jury in San Diego has ordered Microsoft to pay $1.5bn to Alcatel-Lucent in a patent dispute over MP3 audio technology used in Windows.
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