Topic - legal

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General news, Communications, Internet

Vonage, AT&T Settle

Vonage says it has settled a patent dispute with AT&T, which had accused the Internet phone service of using its packet-based telephony products.
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Computers, General news, Internet

Apple News Site ThinkSecret Gets Steve'd

The Mac maker and the online publisher of Apple secrets reach a settlement that calls for the web site to shut down.
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Computers, General news, Internet

Opera Files Complaint Against Microsoft

The Norwegian maker of web browsers, backed by an industry coalition, files the first complaint against Microsoft to the European Commission since the software giant lost its landmark antitrust case.
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General news, Media, Internet

Yahoo Settles Chinese Dissident Case

The search company agrees to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of several Chinese dissidents for Yahoo's alleged involvement in providing information the Chinese government used to prosecute the men.
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General news, Internet, Finance

EU Urges U.S. to Change Net Gambling Law

EU-based gambling firms have urged the World Trade Organization to seek as much as $100 billion in compensation for being shut out of the U.S. market.
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General news, Media, Internet

Prince to Sue Fans?

Fan sites dedicated to Prince say they have been served legal notice to remove all images of the singer, his lyrics and "anything linked to Prince's likeness," and have vowed to fight what they say is censorship.
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General news, Communications, Internet, Finance

Vonage Gets Another Patent Beating

Beleaguered Internet phone service is issued another legal smack: A federal jury rules it infringed six patents held by Sprint Nextel and should pay $69.5 million.
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General news, Communications, Finance

Verizon Files Suit Over FCC Auction

The wireless carrier has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to strike down the FCC conditions, which would require the winner of the new spectrum to let consumers connect using any device or software.
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Computers, Communications

ITC Hears Nokia, Qualcomm Case

The case in which Qualcomm accuses Nokia of infringing patents in cell phones using GSM technology gets a hearing Monday at the U.S. International Trade Commission.
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Computers, Communications

Nokia: Halt Qualcomm Chips

Nokia asks authorities to halt imports of some Qualcomm chips into the United States and the phones that use them, saying they infringe five Nokia patents.
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Finance

Napster Ex-CEO Speaks

Hank Barry, venture capitalist, and Napster CEO during the bubble years, returns to his first love, the legal profession.
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Computers

Oracle Settles With DoJ: $98.5M

PeopleSoft’s involvement in wrongful disclosures about software prices clamps down Oracle.
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Computers, General news

Microsoft May Delay Vista in EU

Redmond warns that antitrust probe could hobble release of next version of Windows.
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Computers

RH Hardware Report

Red Herring's hardware news briefs for the week of May 1, 2006.
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Computers

RH Hardware Report

Hardware news briefs for the week of April 10, 2006.
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General news, Internet

Microsoft Goes After Phishers

The world’s largest software maker plans to file lawsuits on three continents.
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General news, Media, Communications, Internet

And the question is, ‘Who is a big bully?’

Sony forces one blogger to take down the audio spoiler of this year’s Jeopardy season, while letting The Washington Post and a Georgia television station off the hook.
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Archives, Magazine

Legal Rights

Dйjа vu on the content highway.
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Archives, Magazine

We need a legal, fair organ market

No rational policy for allocating organs exists.
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Archives

Intel parries market threat with legal attack

The chip giant was starting to look bad in the communications market, so it dusted off the patent portfolio and went to court.
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