Hoping for some monetary damages, Hopewell Culture & Design have sued Apple and Android makers for the infringement of double-click patent.
Unlikely cronies Apple, EMC and Oracle are part of the Microsoft-led consortium CPTN Holdings, which acquired 882 Novell patents as part of Attachmate's $2.2 billion acquisition of Novell.
The U.S. can expect greater legal software sales in China, the top U.S. trade official said Wednesday.
Nokia has filed fresh patent infringement claims against Apple in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands, alleging that Apple infringed its patents in many of its products sold in these countries, including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has called for enhanced federal oversight in the emerging field of synthetic biology. The panel's approach recognized the great potential of this burgeoning field of science, including life saving medicines, and the still distant risks posed by the field.
A U.S. Federal Judge in Washington state has put the kibosh on Paul Allen's sue the Internet patent lawsuit, at least for now.
India and the European Union announced a breakthrough in their free trade talks on Friday. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the free trade agreement (FTA) could be signed in 2011, after a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the 11th EU-India summit in Brussels.
Patent collecting company Intellectual Ventures, which was started by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, has filed patent lawsuits against nine companies.
China on Thursday expressed its support for Russia’s bid to become a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Global trade protectionism will accelerate in the years ahead and the tussle between the U.S. and China over trade and other issues will escalate to crisis levels as early as in 2012, according to an analyst.
Viacom is taking the fight over copyrights to the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit, appealing the decision that spared YouTube - and its parent company, Google - from a hefty judgment.
A federal judge in California Court has ordered the destruction of genetically engineered sugar beets after finding that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) had likely violated federal law by allowing the plantation of the stecklings without analyzing the potential environmental impact.
Estate executors or administrators in Oklahama have the power to access, administer or terminate the online social media accounts of the deceased, according to a new state law.
A U.S. district court jury has returned a verdict that business software maker SAP AG has stolen software from rival Oracle Corp. and must pay the latter $1.3 billion in damages.
As US Supreme Court agreed yesterday to give Microsoft a hearing related to a 2009 court order that required it to pay $290 million to i4i for patent infringement related to its high-profile product Microsoft Word, Microsoft itself has been on a buying spree collecting patents that cover a range of its products.
Guns and Roses frontman Axl Rose is taking Activision to court, saying the company violated an agreement on the use of the song Welcome To The Jungle.
Selling counterfeit items over the Internet became a little more difficult today, as federal law enforcement officers executed seizure orders against the domain names of 82 commercials websites that, authorities said, sold and distributed counterfeit goods and copyrighted works.
Novell's Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon said on Wednesday that UNIX copyrights are in Novell's hands, quieting fears that Microsoft had clinched its UNIX copyrights.
After nearly a 17-year long wait, Russia could finally be a member of the World Trade Organization by 2011, as it finally reached a deal with European Union, the last opposing member, on Wednesday.
Thomson Reuters, the world's leading financial news and business information provider, is acquiring Pangea3, one of the largest legal outsourcing firms in India, for an undisclosed amount.
Attachmate Corp, an investment group owned by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo, said it will buy networking solutions company Novell, Inc. for about $2.2 billion.
Facebook has begun to block messages that contain links to a file sharing site or torrents. The social networking site had blocked sharing torrent links on walls and news feeds since last spring and now has widened the block to include messages.
