A federal appeals court partially reversed a lower-court decision that had exposed Microsoft to US$565 million in damages.
A US Federal Court yesterday reversed an earlier ruling that Microsoft's product activation technology infringed on a patent held by a US-based technology firm founded in Australia in 1992, overturning a US$388 million verdict in the case.
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has come one step closer to defending its patent relating to several Wi-Fi standards, with defendant Buffalo Technology losing a US appeal on the matter.
Despite a commercial future that depends on working with each other, the relationship between intellectual property firm and chipset vendor Qualcomm and handset maker Nokia has been fractious at best during recent years.
The US government may have stood up for Research In Motion when its BlackBerry service was facing a shutdown, but it's not supporting eBay as the company prepares for Supreme Court arguments.
As CSIRO stands firm on its refusal to freely license key patents relating to WLANs, I'm reminded of the joke: what do you get when you grab a man by the testicles? The answer: his full attention.
Silicon Valley-based wireless technology start-up Quantenna Communications is planning to open a 30 to 50-person research facility in Australia following an injection of venture capital by the Australian-US fund Southern Cross Venture Partners.
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The patent system is supposed to encourage technological innovation. Instead, it rewards those who have the knowledge and resources to work it to their advantage.
Lawyer Eric Sinrod takes a closer look at claims by RTI on the search giant's use of Internet phone technology.
Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.
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America Online has quietly secured a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software.
Apple learnt its lesson when it tried - and failed - to sue Microsoft for copyright infringement of its interface. It has since turned its attention to patents but should not be allowed to succeed here either.
The latest lawsuit against Intel could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and eventually have an impact on every PC maker that uses Pentium processors.
Microsoft told the Web's leading standards body that it's considering making changes to its Internet Explorer browser in light of a recent ruling against the company in a patent infringement lawsuit.
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