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How Much Copyright Infringement Can You Cram Into a Single Tweet?

Liz Gannes in Social on December 30, 2010 at 11:09 am PT

If you run a user-generated content site, takedown notices from copyright holders are a fact of life. That even goes for Twitter, where messages are limited to 140 characters of text. The site received on the order of 300 takedown notices in the last month.

Sony Decides It Doesn’t Want to Be Left Out of Cellphone Patent Fight

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 29, 2010 at 9:53 pm PT

Sony has filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission against Korean rival LG, alleging patent infringement. It’s the latest legal challenge in an epidemic of cellphone-related patent disputes.

Pulse iPad App Gets Steve Jobs's Praise in Morning…Then Booted From App Store Hours Later After NYT Complains

Kara Swisher in News on June 8, 2010 at 12:53 am PT

Yesterday morning, the pair of Stanford University graduate students who made the hot news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, were ecstatic to be mentioned first–for being among the most promising developers for the new tablet device–by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in his keynote address to the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. But by afternoon, that flush of entrepreneurial success had turned sour, when Apple informed the two that Pulse was being pulled from the App Store after it received a written notice from the New York Times Company declaring that “The New York Times Company believes your application named ‘Pulse News Reader’ infringes The New York Times Company’s rights.” Pulse was down completely by 6:30 pm PT last night.

VirnetX Sues Microsoft a Second Time

John Paczkowski in News on March 19, 2010 at 5:10 am PT

Now that a Texas jury has found that Windows Vista, Windows XP and Office Communicator infringe its patents, VirnetX Holding has set out to prove that a few other Microsoft products do as well. Two days after winning a $105.75 million jury verdict against the software giant, VirnetX has filed a new complaint claiming Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 infringe those patents as well.

Viacom, YouTube Make Their Case: Read Their Secret Papers Here

Peter Kafka in Media on March 18, 2010 at 10:15 am PT

And we’re off! Court filings in the YouTube-Viacom suit were just unsealed and we can finally read them for ourselves. Settle in–this will take a while.

Apple vs. Google: Game On

John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 2, 2010 at 1:18 pm PT

Is Apple’s lawsuit against HTC a proxy through which to strike at Google and its increasingly popular Android OS? It certainly looks that way. While not directly named in the lawsuit, Google figures prominently in it simply because of the sheer number of times “Android products” are called out in the complaint.

Apple: At My Signal, Unleash Hell …

John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 2, 2010 at 6:30 am PT

And there it is. Apple has filed suit against HTC, the manufacturer of a number of smartphones running Google’s Android OS, claiming the company infringed some 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone’s graphical user interface, underlying architecture and hardware.

Google "Stole First and Asked Questions Later"

John Paczkowski in News on May 4, 2009 at 5:20 am PT

Tough break for Google. An Illinois software developer has sued the company, along with some four dozen others, alleging that they infringed on his trademark on the word “android.” Seems Erich Specht, who runs Android Data Corporation, holds the mark on the term “Android Data.”

Google “Stole First and Asked Questions Later”

John Paczkowski in News on May 4, 2009 at 5:20 am PT

Tough break for Google. An Illinois software developer has sued the company, along with some four dozen others, alleging that they infringed on his trademark on the word “android.” Seems Erich Specht, who runs Android Data Corporation, holds the mark on the term “Android Data.”