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Philippine government proposes new IPR laws
News Facing mounting piracy, country unveils set of proposed rules to facilitate faster and more efficient resolution of court cases involving intellectual property rights.
Tags: Copyright, Lawsuits, Piracy, Chief Justice, Conference, Business Software Alliance, Philippines, IP, Intellectual Property Right, Government
Philippine govt agency sues IBM
News Government social security arm alleges system built by IBM and subsidiary Questronix crashed due to defective software; sues for breach of contract.
Tags: Lawsuits, Database management, Databases, IBM Corp., IBM DB2, Philippines, Database, OEM, database system, Social Security
'Vista capable' suit no longer class-action
News A judge declines to dismiss the suit against Microsoft, but rules that each PC buyer has to bring his own legal action when seeking redress.
Tags: Lawsuits, Windows Vista, Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Class Action, inflation, class action suit, e-mail, Microsoft Windows XP
Skype legal settlement clears path for expansion
News Skype's change of ownership will allow company to return its focus to implementing new features and finding new ways to make money.
Tags: Lawsuits, VoIP/IP telephony, VoIP, Founder, Marc Andreessen, Joost, Lawsuits, Joltid, Andreessen Horowitz, Acquisition
Facebook silences Project Playlist widgets
News The legal complaints that earlier saw the social music site's widgets pulled from MySpace have now cut off its presence on Facebook, too.
Tags: Music, Lawsuits, Patents, MySpace, RIAA, blogosphere, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Project Playlist, social networking, Facebook
Stallman warns of Mono 'risk'
News GNU project founder urge developers to drop use of the open source toolset, saying it could expose their work to legal action from Microsoft.
Tags: Open source, Lawsuits, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Business applications, Apple Mac OS, Debian, C#, photograph
Intel files US$50M suit against insurance firm
News Lawsuit follows American Guarantee and Liability Insurance's failure to pay for Intel's legal defense related to antitrust lawsuits.
Tags: Antitrust, Lawsuits, Mobile processors, Processors, Insurance Company, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, Chip Company, Lawsuit
A year on, Psystar still defying Apple
News Psystar rocked the Mac world a year ago by selling Open Computers with Mac OS preinstalled. The legal war with Apple is well underway, but it's otherwise business as usual for Psystar.
Tags: PC security, Mac OS, Copyright, Antitrust, Lawsuits, Patents, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Sales
Teen Muziic founder: Shawn Fanning is my hero
News David Nelson, who is 15, will face enormous hurdles if his new music service, Muziic, is to become a hit. But he's betting YouTube is smart enough to recognize a good thing.
Tags: Music, Copyright, Lawsuits, Piracy, Site, Google Inc., Napster Inc., Video, Terms Of Service, Shawn Fanning
Mac clone maker to countersue Apple
News The maker of Mac clones says it plans to sue Apple under two federal laws designed to discourage monopolies and cartels.
Tags: Mac OS, Personal Computers, Lawsuits, Apple Inc., Mobile, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, operating system, Notebook, payment processing
AP, AHN Media settle intellectual property lawsuit
News All Headline News admits to improperly using AP content in settlement of intellectual property lawsuit involving "hot news".
Tags: Lawsuits, Copyright, VeriSign Inc., Lawsuit, Intellectual Property Right, intellectual property, Associated Press, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Media, U.S. District Court Judge
Microsoft suit alleges ex-worker stole trade secrets
News Startup CEO is accused of getting hired by Microsoft under false pretenses in order to steal information to use in a patent lawsuit against three Microsoft partners.
Tags: Patents, Lawsuits, Software, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Patent Suit, patent litigation, Lawsuit, attorney, OEM
Google, Microsoft, Apple sued over preview icons
News Michigan-based networking company sues the tech giants for allegedly infringing on a patent related to document thumbnails used in operating systems.
Tags: Patents, Lawsuits, Web sites, Web browsers, Apple Inc., Cygnus Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Google Inc., PC World
Google on trial in Italy
News Should Google have to get consent from a subject before a video is uploaded? That's one of the issues at stake in a lawsuit focused on privacy violations.
Tags: Web sites, Video, Lawsuits, Google Inc., TV, Officer, prosecutor, Internet content company, Milan, Cajani
Judge orders Ballmer to testify in Vista suit
News Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer faces a three-hour deposition in next 30 days in a class action lawsuit over the "Vista Capable" logo program.
Tags: Lawsuits, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Class Action, class action suit, Jim Allchin, Judge, Microsoft Windows, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
