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Federal Judge Forces Apple, Google, Others to Face Antitrust Suit

Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 19 at 2:05 pm PT

A federal judge says there’s enough information that six tech companies had “do-not-cold-call” agreements between them that they have to face an antitrust suite from five software engineers.

It’s On: Oracle and Google to Meet in “World Series” of IP Lawsuits

Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 15 at 6:07 pm PT

The CEOs of both companies are on the witness list for a patent and copyright case that could have some far-reaching implications.

SAP Plans to Fight $1.3 Billion Judgment in Oracle Case

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 3, 2011 at 3:03 pm PT

SAP believes the jury was too generous in its award to Oracle and that the damages are not proportionate to its subsidiary’s offense of intellectual-property theft.

HP Plans Another Probe Into Hurd Departure

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 19, 2011 at 5:10 pm PT

A new set of independent lawyers may be tapped to revisit the circumstances of how Mark Hurd came to resign as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, court filings show.

Going, Going: LimeWire Shutters Online Store, Too

Peter Kafka in Media on December 2, 2010 at 10:38 am PT

LimeWire, the high-profile file-sharing company, more or less shut down in October, following a federal court ruling. But the last bits of the company seem to be going away: Its online music store will be shuttered at the end of the month, and I’m told that plans to launch a new music service have been shelved.

RIM Sends Message to Kik by Filing Lawsuit

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 1, 2010 at 11:19 am PT

Two weeks ago, the BlackBerry Messenger lookalike was banned by Research In Motion from its app store, and now the company is sending a more serious message by filing a lawsuit against Waterloo, Ontario-based Kik, claiming patent infringement.

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LimeWire Disavows New "Pirate Edition"

Ethan Smith, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 11, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

LimeWire LLC, potentially liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for copyright infringement, issued a cease-and-desist notice of its own Wednesday, trying to prevent anonymous computer programmers from distributing a “pirate edition” of its file-sharing software.

Grip Different: Apple, AT&T Sued Over iPhone 4 Antenna Issue

John Paczkowski in News on July 1, 2010 at 5:20 am PT

And there it is, the first iPhone 4 lawsuit–not six days after the device first went on sale (and well within the two-week return period). Filed in federal court in Maryland Wednesday on behalf of a pair Maryland residents who purchased two iPhone 4s each, only to find they suffered significantly reduced reception and performance when handled the way any reasonable person would handle a cell phone, the class action accuses Apple and AT&T of knowingly selling phones with a defective antenna design.

Big Music Wins One: LimeWire Loses Court Fight

Peter Kafka in Media on May 12, 2010 at 1:17 pm PT

A big victory for Big Music: A federal court has ruled in favor of the music labels in their fight against LimeWire, one of the most prominent file-sharing services on the Web.