INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Samsung stumps Apple by demanding to see iPhone 5, iPad 3 in infringement lawsuit

Samsung, which has been accused by Apple of stealing its technology and design has turned the table on its accuser, which is famous for its corporate secrecy, by demanding to see pre-production prototypes of next generation iPhone and iPad so that it can evaluate whether its Galaxy range of devices are confusingly similar to Apple devices.
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Google distributes 5,000 units of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 free

Google decided to ratchet up excitement around the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, which runs its tablet specific OS Android 3.0, by giving it for free to 5,000 attendees at the Google I/O conference and incurring about $499 per piece or $2.5 million in total.

Pre-Market NASDAQ Movers (MSSR, VVUS, OREX, CIGX, OPTR, OVTI, DEPO, AMTD, LOGI, CHKP)

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants, VIVUS, Orexigen Therapeutics, Star Scientific, and Optimer Pharmaceuticals. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: OmniVision Technologies, DepoMed, TD AMERITRADE Holding, Logitech International, and Check Point Software Technologies.
Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor stands in front of the company's logo in Taipei

Strong OTN Growth Attract New Players (PMCS, BRCM, NETL, ALTR)

Auriga USA LLC expects optical transport network to get increasingly crowded with players like PMC-Sierra Inc. (PMCS), Broadcom Corp. (BRCM), NetLogic Microsystems Inc. (NETL), and potentially even FPGA (field-programmable gate array) vendor Altera Corp. (ALTR) vying to build application specific standard products (ASSP) to target this space.
British inventor Sir James Dyson

Are British inventions at risk from Chinese students?

Noted English industrial designer, Sir James Dyson has accused a section of Chinese students studying in the United Kingdom of infiltrating universities in order to steal intellectual property and technology inventions.
Musicians of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra perform during a rehearsal for the New Year's Concert 2011

U.S. Supreme Court will settle recopyright law debate

The U.S. Supreme Court has admitted a petition for writ of certiorari filed by a music professor of University of Denver, who has challenged a 1994 recopyright law that removed thousands of foreign works from the public domain and gave them copyright protection.
Google Android reigns smartphone market:

Grumblings In Google's App Marketplace

Some app developers are expressing discontent with the way Google operates the Android Market for apps, and at least one has decided to call out Google in public.

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