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EU Launches Google Probe

Frances Robinson, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 30, 2010 at 3:05 am PT

BRUSSELS–The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into allegations that Google Inc. has abused a dominant position in online search, it said Tuesday.

Gag Order Denied in Oracle, SAP Trial

John Paczkowski in News on October 29, 2010 at 10:31 am PT

Bad news for SAP, Hewlett-Packard, it’s new CEO Léo Apotheker and anyone else tarred and feathered in Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s recent fusillade of anti-SAP broadsides. A federal judge has denied a request for a gag order in the increasingly contentious legal battle between Oracle and SAP.

HTC to Apple: We Built a Touchscreen Phone Before You Did

John Paczkowski in News on March 18, 2010 at 6:05 am PT

The surprise HTC expressed earlier this month at being sued by Apple has finally turned into something a bit more substantial: “strong disagreement.” The company issued a statement this morning denying Apple’s allegations and vowed to fight the suit. The gist: HTC has been making phones far longer than Apple, including a touchscreen device called the XDA that predates the iPhone by about five years.

Nokia Accuses Apple of “Legal Alchemy.” Stops Short of “Chymistry” and “Heresy.”

John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 15, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

The rhetorical terpsichore in the Nokia-Apple patent-infringement spat is ramping up–and quickly. Late last week, the Finnish mobile phone maker asked a U.S. judge to dismiss Apple’s antitrust claims against it, disparaging them as “legal alchemy.”

Xerox to Google, Yahoo: If You Need Additional Copies of the Lawsuit, You Know Whom to Ask

John Paczkowski in News on February 23, 2010 at 11:33 am PT

Xerox is not a name that springs to mind when one thinks of search. It is, after all, a 100-year-old global document-management company best known for its office and production equipment. Odd, then, to hear that Xerox has accused Google and Yahoo of pilfering its intellectual property.

AMD Not Above Gloating Over Intel Legal Troubles

John Paczkowski in News on November 12, 2009 at 4:30 am PT

AMD has been carping about Intel’s alleged anticompetitive acts without satisfaction for so long that the company evidently feels entitled to a bit of gloating now that its rival has found itself in the legal crosshairs of the European Union and New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, among others. In remarks made during AMD Financial Analyst Day, CEO Dirk Meyer said that Intel’s current legal woes “ratify” AMD’s allegations.

Exclusive: Skype Founders Keep on Punching–File Injunction Against Volpi and Index

Kara Swisher in News on October 14, 2009 at 7:04 am PT

Joost and Joltid filed a motion for preliminary injunction against former Joost CEO Michelangelo Volpi and Index Ventures, where Volpi now works as a partner, asking that he not use knowledge or confidential information he got at the video start-up in current dealings with Skype. The move is yet another legal attack from the founders of Skype, who were on the losing side of the $2 billion deal to buy the Internet telephony giant from eBay.

EC to Intel: How's This for "Manifestly Disproportionate?"

John Paczkowski in News on September 21, 2009 at 11:16 am PT

Intel’s criticism of the European Commission’s legal acumen clearly has not gone over well in Brussels. The EC today responded to Intel’s claims that the Commission’s antitrust ruling against the company was meted out in error by releasing the full text of its decision and a selection of email correspondence and internal memos that make it clear that Intel probably should have kept its big mouth shut.

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