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.
The recent news of Chinese counterfeiting Apple stores and products has triggered inspections from Kunming authorities after customers and staff were fooled by fake products. Near perfect replications of Apple devices and stores will make challenging work for those going in to differentiate genuine from counterfeit items. The discovered fake Apple stores covered all the details from furniture display, a Genius Bar, product layout, signage, and staff uniforms.
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.
Clinton's legal troubles continue
The deal brings to an end the litigation between recording companies and Baidu over piracy charges
The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) ruled on July 15, that HTC had infringed on two of the four patents involved in its lawsuit with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL).
Google's Android Operating System is in serious trouble with the ITC ruling which says Android-run HTC devices infringe two of ten Apple patents in an initial determination by an administrative law judge (ALJ). These determinations will undergo review by the six-member Commission, the highest decision-making body at the ITC, to reach the final decision, with the target date of the final Commission decision set for December 6, 2011.
The smartphone wars are not just about technology and marketing. It's also about the law.
HTC lost a preliminary ruling from the International Trade Commission after rival Apple filed suit against it, seeking an halt to the import of its products into the US.
Apple won a preliminary ruling from the International Trade Commission as it seeks put an injunction on rival HTC to halt what it believes is infringing its intellectual property.
The U.S. Department of Defense Thursday has unveiled its first-ever cyber strategy after hackers have stolen 24000 files containing sensitive data in a single intrusion.