INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

A case that came up for hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, involving Stanford University and Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, is expected to clarify a landmark intellectual property rights law that lays down the rules for grant of patents for federally funded inventions.

Chinese search engine Baidu.com, an e-commerce unit of Alibaba and Sweden torrent download site Pirate Bay have been named on the United States Trade Representative (USTR)'s Notorious Markets List.

Texting answering service company doesn't like HTC using their name for a phone.

Rapper Bun B has threatened legal action against the designers of a line of T-shirts bearing his likeness and that of his late UKG bandmate, Pimp C

Sony Computer Entertainment America won a preliminary injunction against a hacker who publicized a method for allowing Playstation 3 consoles to install non-Sony operating systems. But others might still tinker with their machines.

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NEW YORK, Feb 14 - Technology communications company VoIP Inc sued Google Inc. in New York Supreme Court on Monday, accusing the Internet giant of stealing its trade secrets related to online voice technology.

Ford Motor Co sued Ferrari for trademark infringement after the Italian sports care maker named its 2011 Formula 1 racing car the F150.

Google stands the risk of being disconnected from its primary source of bread and butter, the internet, if there is any bite to Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) warning that chides Google for copyright infringement.

They are naming almost all the behind the scenes hackers in their bid to stop further damage to PS3

Britain, worried about a growing threat from cyber espionage and cyber crime, offered Friday to host an international conference to tackle such issues.

A bill to reduce the likelihood of massive damage awards in patent disputes took a step forward on Thursday with approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Google has accused Bing - the search engine from Microsoft - of cheating.

A lawyer of UK-based law firm ACS: Law has withdrawn from pursuing alleged illegal file-sharers, citing death threats from hackers.

Sony Computer Entertainment America has won a temporary restraining order (TRO) against hacker 'Geohot' who circumvented PlayStation 3 (PS3) hardware security measures to run unapproved code on the game console.

Howrey is reportedly mulling a tie-up with Chicago-based intellectual property (IP) specialist Winston & Strawn and the top bosses of the two law firms are in discussions whether a merger would make sense.

Wi-LAN has reached settlements with six companies in a wireless patent dispute and expects to reach deals with six others involved in the case before the February 2 trial date, the patent-licensing company said on Monday.

The U.S. Justice Department's review of Google Inc's planned acquisition of airline ticketing software company ITA Software is focusing on making sure ITA's products remain available, even to Google's rivals, according to a source close to the deal.

U.S. generic drug maker Mylan Inc has settled two U.S. patent disputes with global pharma giant Pfizer Inc, which will enable the former to sell the generic versions of cholesterol drug Lipitor and combination blood pressure and cholesterol treatment Caduet.

Apple is due to take gesture-based navigation to the next level, as a recently awarded patent to Apple illustrates a technology that can interpret real-world gestures on touch and hover sensitive devices.

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei won a partial victory in its fight to block Motorola's $1.2 billion sale of assets to Nokia Siemens Networks, as the court granted an order to stop the transfer of Huawei's intellectual property.