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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.

Tuesday, October 27 2009 05:35 PM

Tags: Copyright, Lawsuits, Piracy, Chief Justice, Conference, Business Software Alliance, Philippines, IP, Intellectual Property Right, Government

Park right expertise to stay e-legal

News Firms need to pull expert resources into dedicated team to comply with digital forensics requests, says consultant, who outlines common pitfalls they should avoid.

Wednesday, October 21 2009 06:55 PM

Tags: Data Management, Legal, IT project management, IT Governance, E-discovery, Asia, Backup, IT Manager, Singapore, QA

As crunch bites, don't neglect the logs

Insight Managing log files may seem like a mundane issue but doing it well tightens data security and boosts compliance efforts, says Quocirca analyst.

Sunday, February 08 2009 11:07 PM

Tags: Business security, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Data security, Security, Organization, Electronics, PCI, Fran Howarth, compliance

Singapore blazes into e-discovery of evidence

Blogs The Singapore courts operate the dispute resolution mechanism by the application of the Rules of Court, as well as vario...

Monday, August 03 2009 02:17 PM

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.

Monday, November 09 2009 10:20 AM

Tags: Lawsuits, VoIP/IP telephony, VoIP, Founder, Marc Andreessen, Joost, Lawsuits, Joltid, Andreessen Horowitz, Acquisition

Apple gets multitouch patent

News The company has been awarded a patent for multitouch touchscreen technology, versions of which are used in systems from competitors such as Palm and Microsoft.

Thursday, January 29 2009 06:29 AM

Tags: Patents, Handhelds, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Patent, patent litigation, Microsoft Windows 7, Multitouch Functionality, intellectual property, profit margin

US court sides with Microsoft in Alcatel-Lucent case

News A federal appeals court says Microsoft does not have to pay damages in a long-running patent case over the MP3 music format.

Friday, September 26 2008 10:06 AM

Tags: Legal, Patents, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Alcatel, general counsel, MP3 music, litigation, Lucent Technologies Inc., blog

Open-source leaders see Microsoft-TomTom suit as a threat

News Community pushing open and free software prepares to defend itself in light of Microsoft's "antagonistic" litigation involving Linux.

Friday, February 27 2009 11:07 AM

Tags: Patents, Lawsuits, Open source, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Open-source Software, TomTom, open-source leader, software, Linux Community

Microsoft, TomTom settle patent dispute

News The pair reach deal, where TomTom will pay Microsoft for patent protection related to patents that Microsoft claimed were infringed by TomTom's use of the Linux kernel.

Tuesday, March 31 2009 08:36 AM

Tags: Open source, Microsoft Corp., Patent, GPL, TomTom, intellectual property, litigation, Linux, agreement, Open source

Skype aims to avoid shutdown with new tech

News eBay-owned VoIP firm is trying to develop new P2P technology to replace that which might be taken away in a legal dispute with Skype's founders.

Monday, August 03 2009 09:32 AM

Tags: Corporate communications, Business applications, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., IP Telephony, P2P, founder, litigation, SEC, Internet

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.

Monday, February 02 2009 07:26 AM

Tags: Antitrust, Lawsuits, Mobile processors, Processors, Insurance Company, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, Chip Company, Lawsuit

Oracle ordered to name settlement price in SAP lawsuit

News U.S. federal judge orders Oracle to give a specific dollar amount in lawsuit over handling of third-party data for ex-Oracle customers who switched over to its archrival.

Wednesday, October 22 2008 11:19 AM

Tags: Business applications, Legal, Lawsuits, SAP AG, Conference, Lawsuit, Judge, News.com, Oracle Corp., litigation

Samsung and InterDigital reach 3G, 2G settlement

News Under the settlement agreement, Samsung will receive an InterDigital license to use its technology in all of Samsung's 3G related products through 2012.

Wednesday, November 26 2008 08:09 AM

Tags: 3G (Third Generation), Settlement, 2G, payment, 3G, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., W-CDMA, wireless technology provider, litigation, technology provider