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Wi-Fi patent case results in $229M payment to Australian government
Tech vendors including Lenovo, Acer, Sony, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile will reportedly pay an Australian scientific research agency $229 million in a patent settlement over use of Wi-Fi technology. The Commonwealth Scientific and...Microsoft and TiVo call truce on patent lawsuits
Microsoft and TiVo have agreed to withdraw patent lawsuits the companies filed against each other. Microsoft sued TiVo in January 2010 , seeking monetary damages and a court order preventing TiVo from using...Yahoo IP lawsuit: We patented "Facebook’s entire social network model"
By now you've heard that Yahoo has sued Facebook , alleging patent infringement. But just which pieces of intellectual property is Yahoo claiming Facebook ripped off? Surely, you'd say, Yahoo doesn't claim that...Yahoo’s big patent war escalation: a lawsuit against Facebook
After threatening Facebook with patent litigation last month, Yahoo has pulled the trigger, charging Facebook with infringing ten of its patents: To build a successful website, users need to have easy access to...Opinion: The problem with software patents? They don’t scale
Timothy B. Lee, a regular contributor to Ars Technica and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, has joined forces with Christina Mulligan, a postdoctoral resident fellow at the Information Society Project at...Exclusive Usenet Offers: $7.95/month
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