INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Hackers breached the computer networks of 72 organizations around the world over a five-year period, in the biggest hacking campaign discovered to date, security firm McAfee said on Wednesday.

According to a Bloomberg report, Samsung will be delaying the release of the new Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia under an agreement with Apple, until the patent lawsuit between the two companies is resolved. This is an interesting move by Samsung, and almost seems to suggest that the lawsuit isn't going well for Samsung. However, if federal judges in multiple countries come to the same conclusion that Samsung "slavishly" imitated the design and technology used for the iPad and iPho...

Apple wins early round at U.S. ITC

Apple won a big settlement against Samsung in Australia on Monday, a decision that could have far-reaching implications.

After a multi-continent investigation, Summit Entertainment is suing the person it believes leaked pictures and video from the unreleased "Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn," the company announced Monday.

Google's Android platform has taken almost 50 percent of the global smartphone market, dominating in the Asia-Pacific region, research firm Canalys said on Monday

Google announced on Thursday that it had acquired more than 1,000 patents from International Business Machines Corp. to defend itself against lawsuits while increased interest in intellectual property suggests a legal showdown between Apple and Google.

Google, the Internet leader in search, confirmed on Friday that it has bought more than 1,000 technology patents from IBM.

Although the completion of the $4.5 billion sale of Nortel's 6,000 patents has been announced, the U.S. Department of Justice intends to continue scrutiny over the deal. It is reportedly intensifying an investigation into whether the deal would unjustly hobble competitors.

When Alibaba announced it was giving away subsidiary Alipay (a leading Chinese online payment platform) to a separate company controlled by Alibaba CEO Jack Ma, Yahoo! investors balked.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Allied Healthcare International, Sify Technologies, EV Energy Partners, Silicon Motion Technology, Gulfport Energy, and Yahoo!. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Vistaprint, STEC, Constant Contact, Oclaro, and DepoMed.

China's latest crackdown on intellectual property piracy has netted more than 20,000 fake Tibetan-language text books, 90,000 copies of a well-known Chinese film as well as porn films, state media said on Friday.

In what a Lucasfilm spokesman told the BBC is an "anomaly of British copyright law," prop designer Andrew Ainsworth won the rights to sell replicas of the original "Star Wars" Stormtrooper helmets, which he designed.

A British prop designer who makes replicas of the menacing Stormtrooper helmets featured in Star Wars films won a legal battle Wednesday against director George Lucas, who took him to the High Court in 2008 over copyright infringement.

The Smurfs will return to the U.S. in a big way with the premiere of their namesake movie on July 29.

InterDigital Inc has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission against Nokia Corp, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp accusing the cellphone makers of infringing seven InterDigital technology patents.

Two fake Apple stores shut down in Kunming while three others get to stay open.

Chinese officials have ordered the closure of two out of five fake apple stores in Kunming that were uncovered last week by an American Blogger.

Chinese officials in Kunming have ordered two fake Apple shops to close, not because of piracy or copyright concerns, but because the stores in the southwestern city did not have an official business permit.

She sued the clothing store for using her look-alike and cashing-in on her persona.

A fake Apple Store was found in the Chinese city of Kunming by American blogger BirdAbroad. Even the staff of the store had no idea it was a fake.