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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...

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Monday, April 2nd, 2012 Net News No Comments

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...

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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 Net News No Comments

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...

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Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 Net News No Comments

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...

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Monday, March 12th, 2012 Net News No Comments

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...

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Thursday, March 8th, 2012 Net News No Comments

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