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Apple loses exclusive trademark in Brazil to the term iPhone as IGB proves that it had trademarked the name in 2000. Last week, there were rumors out of Brazil saying that the Brazilian Institute...Alki David VS CNET: A Battle For Supremacy
Heir of the Coca-Cola Hellenic shipping and bottling company, Alki David, along with a handful of recording artists, has started a war against CNET’s Download.com. The lawsuit is based on their allegations that Download.com...Facebook Reaches 1 Billion Users
The population of the social networking website is now equal to one seventh of the world’s population. Facebook hit the 1 billion user milestone this week, meaning the equivalent of one seventh of the...FTC gets a $163 million judgment against scareware operation
A federal court in Maryland has imposed a $163 million opinion and judgment against defendants from Innovative Marketing in a massive scareware operation. The company sold the scareware under the names WinFixer, WinAntiVirus, and WinAntiVirusPro,...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,...Exclusive Usenet Offers: $7.95/month
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