Liz Gannes in Social on February 8 at 11:56 am PT
A lawsuit against Benchmark Capital and its portfolio company Nextdoor — filed by a founder claiming they stole his name and idea for a start-up — was dropped on Tuesday.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 7 at 1:50 am PT
Unhappy with a judge’s ruling that slashed a judgement from $1.3 billion to $272 million, Oracle says it wants a new copyright infringement trial against rival SAP.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 31 at 7:00 am PT
But in HP’s view, Oracle sought to blow up its rival’s Business Critical Server business and lure customers to its Sun servers.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 27, 2011 at 5:39 am PT
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has reexamined and rejected a patent at issue in Oracle’s fight with Google over the use of Java in the Android mobile operating system.
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John Murrell in Mobile on December 14, 2011 at 1:11 am PT
HTC said today that the U.S. International Trade Commission had
again delayed its ruling on a smartphone patent case brought against the company by Apple. The ruling was initially set to come down on Dec. 6, then
rescheduled for today. Now it’s due on Monday.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 12, 2011 at 1:24 pm PT
What, right in the middle of a lawsuit with Oracle?
Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 2, 2011 at 6:31 pm PT
The legal fight between Oracle and HP over the Itanium chip just got a little nastier.
Ross Kelly, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 30, 2011 at 3:33 am PT
Samsung Electronics Co. won a significant victory Wednesday in its global tablet war with Apple Inc., as a panel of judges lifted a temporary ban on sales of its devices in Australia.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 23, 2011 at 12:47 pm PT
Cisco’s general counsel asks Hewlett-Packard to quit suing its own ex-employees who want to work for Cisco. But aggressive lawyers are suing ex-employees all the time.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on November 18, 2011 at 5:54 pm PT
In a new filing in the Itanium lawsuit, Oracle accuses Hewlett-Packard and Intel of a secret plan “to keep a dead microprocessor alive.”