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Analyst firm Gartner has advised its clients to halt all mission critical deployments of Research In Motion's BlackBerry e-mail devices because of a legal battle that could see a judge effectively shut down the company's US operations.
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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.
Hewlett-Packard buried the hatchet on a long-standing patent dispute with EMC early this month, agreeing to pay $325 million to settle the case.
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America Online has quietly secured a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software.
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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.
PalmSource is turning over a new leaf for handwriting recognition, replacing its idiosyncratic software amid a continuing patent battle with Xerox.
Parts of the newest version of Red Hat's Linux software slipped onto the Internet Wednesday, nearly a week before the operating system's official release date, giving glimpses of a product with a new focus on mainstream computer users.
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