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www.vnunet.com
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Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has warned users of Red Hat Linux that they will have to pay Microsoft for its intellectual property.
"People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to..
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CNET
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A week after Microsoft was ordered to hand over $1.5 billion in an Alcatel-Lucent MP3 patent dispute, a federal judge has ruled that the Windows maker did not violate a patent at the heart of a second trial that was set to begin soon.
The ruling from t..
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Macworld
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Little-known Texas MP3 Technologies is taking on Apple, Samsung Electronics Co and Sandisk with a patent-infringement lawsuit.
The suit, which came to light over the weekend, was filed on 16 February in Marshall, Texas. The eastern Texas city is fast b..
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New York Times
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Microsoft was ordered by a federal jury yesterday to pay $1.52 billion in a patent dispute over the MP3 format, the technology at the heart of the digital music boom. If upheld on appeal, it would be the largest patent judgment on record. The ruling, i..
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CNET
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Steve Ballmer has reissued Microsoft's patent threat against Linux, warning open-source vendors that they must respect his company's intellectual property. In a no-nonsense presentation to New York financial analysts last Thursday, Microsoft's chief ex..
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Technology Review
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A secretive Texas startup developing what some are calling a "game changing" energy-storage technology broke its silence this week. It announced that it has reached two production milestones and is on track to ship systems this year for use in electric..
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Business Review Online
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While the Software Freedom Law Center is still sifting through the details of Novell’s patent covenant agreement with Microsoft to protect each others’ customers and the GPL implications, it has spoken out on Microsoft’s pledge not to sue unsalaried..
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Ars Technica
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Intel licensed a set of patents from South Korean firm LG, then used some of the licensed patents to create parts of the chipset technology it sold to Taiwanese computer makers like Quanta. LG then sued the computer makers in a US court, claiming that the..
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Los Angeles Times
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Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. and IBM Corp. settled all their patent infringement lawsuits and signed a long-term patent cross-license agreement, the companies said.
Under the deal, Amazon.com will pay IBM an undisclosed amount of money, and each com..
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BusinessWeek
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Amid weak sales and a critical patent fight, the CEO heads for the exit. Will customers follow?
As it battles soft sales and a court ruling that could spell its demise, Vonage Holdings (VG) is slashing costs and hunting for a new chief executive. All t..
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Los Angeles Times
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NEW YORK — Qualcomm Inc. said Tuesday that it had filed two new patent infringement lawsuits against Nokia, the latest punch in an increasingly bitter fight over mobile technology licenses.
The suits dim hopes of the pair reaching an agreement before..
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Los Angeles Times
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Qualcomm Inc. and Broadcom Corp. agreed Friday to settle all patent claims pending in federal court in San Diego, eliminating the need for five trials in their 2-year-old dispute over mobile-phone chips and earpieces.
Financial terms weren't disclosed...
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ZDNET
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Michael Kölling is pretty ticked off right now. What would upset a mild mannered professor at the University of Kent? How about someone willfully using his work without attribution, and then filing for a patent on it that could prevent him from using it..
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Ars Technica
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When an 800 pound gorilla puts on a tophat and a bowtie and starts doing dances in the street, people can quickly forget that it's still an 800 pound gorilla. In the patent world, IBM is the simian in question, racking up more patents in the last five ye..
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