News tagged with infringement

Oracle wants SAP to pay billions for looted programs

Attorneys for business software giant Oracle want a jury to order German rival SAP to pay billions of dollars for looting its software libraries for competitive advantage.

Technology / Business

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Motorola fires back against Microsoft in patent dispute

Motorola, the target of a patent lawsuit by Microsoft, fired back against the US software giant with a patent infringement complaint of its own on Wednesday.

Technology / Business

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 5

1.5-million-dollar verdict in US music piracy case

A US jury has ordered a Minnesota woman to pay 1.5 million dollars for illegally downloading 24 songs in a high-profile digital piracy case.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 68

Apple accused of copyright infringement in China

US high-tech giant Apple has been accused in China of copyright infringement, with a computer screen maker saying it owns the rights to the iPad name in the country, a report said Wednesday.

Technology / Business

created Oct 27, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

LimeWire file-sharing service shut down by US court

Popular online file-sharing service LimeWire was shut down by a US federal court on Tuesday following a lawsuit filed by the music industry.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Swedish Pirate Bay appeals trial wraps up

Defence lawyers wrapped up an appeals trial Friday of three founders and a financier of Swedish filesharing site The Pirate Bay, demanding that their clients' earlier guilty verdicts be overturned.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Draft trade pact more palatable to tech companies

(AP) -- For three years, technology and telecommunications companies have watched nervously from the sidelines as the United States and nearly a dozen trading partners have negotiated a trade agreement that critics feared ...

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created Oct 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Motorola looking to take bite out of Blackberry

US handset maker Motorola is taking aim at the Blackberry with a new smartphone designed for business users, the "Droid Pro".

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Apple faces $625 million fines over patents: report

Apple has decided to challenge a legal decision that could see it pay up to 625.5 million dollars in fines for infringing several patents, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

Technology / Business

created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Free speech group fights lawsuits vs. news sharers

(AP) -- A San Francisco group that defends online free speech is taking on a Las Vegas company it says is shaking down news-sharing Internet users through more than 140 copyright infringement lawsuits filed this year.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Pirate Bay filesharing appeal opens in Sweden

Four founders and financiers of filesharing site The Pirate Bay, who last year were sentenced to a year in prison, opened their appeal bid to get the verdict overturned in Stockholm on Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

SAP won't fight Oracle claims in espionage case

(AP) -- In a surprise twist in a corporate espionage case involving two of the world's biggest business software makers, SAP AG on Thursday said it won't fight claims that a subsidiary stole valuable data from rival Oracle ...

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created Aug 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Baidu hacker lawsuit can proceed in US court

A US judge ruled Thursday that Baidu has a "plausible" legal case against a domain registry firm that let hackers commandeer the Chinese Internet search giant's website.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Boston judge cuts penalty in song-sharing case

(AP) -- A federal judge on Friday drastically trimmed a $675,000 verdict against a Boston University graduate student who was found liable for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs online, saying the jury damage award ...

Technology / Other

created Jul 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Feds disable movie piracy websites in raids

(AP) -- U.S. officials on Wednesday announced a major crackdown on movie piracy that involved disabling nine websites that were offering downloads of pirated movies in some cases hours after they appeared ...

Technology / Internet

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1