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Apple ordered to pay $368.2M for patent infringement in FaceTime

A patent licensing firm named VirnetX today won a $368.2 million judgment against Apple, whose FaceTime technology was found to infringe patents covering virtual private network technology. The federal jury’s ruling stems from a...

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Wednesday, November 7th, 2012 Net News No Comments

ITC: How an obscure bureaucracy makes the world safe for patent trolls

Earlier this month, Motorola asked the ITC to ban a wide variety of Apple products, including iPads, MacBooks, and iMacs, from the US market. Yutaka Tsutano If you follow the smartphone patent wars,...

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Friday, September 21st, 2012 Net News No Comments

ZeroPaid Interviews TorrentLitigation.com

We talk a lot about national and international copyright laws a lot, but one of the issues that receives less attention is how individual users can deal with legal threats by rights holders...

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Thursday, August 23rd, 2012 Net News 1 Comment

Authors Guild Seeks $2 Billion From Google for Book Scanning

Photo: Amadeus ex Machina /Flickr Google is on the hook for as much as $2 billion in damages for digitally scanning 2.7 million university library books without permission, the Authors Guild claims in...

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Tuesday, August 7th, 2012 Net News No Comments

UK judge: Galaxy Tab not "cool" enough to infringe iPad design

The Galaxy Tab is "not as cool" as the iPad, according to a UK judge. Ryan Paul Samsung has won a ruling in UK High Court that its Galaxy Tab tablets do not...

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Monday, July 9th, 2012 Net News No Comments