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Jury Rules for Oracle in Java Trial

Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 7 at 11:28 am PT

The jury in the Oracle-Google trial over Java has come back.

Will the Oracle-Google Jury Decide Today? Maybe. Maybe Not.

Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 7 at 10:49 am PT

The jury deciding the Oracle-Google lawsuit over Java is back for another day of deliberations, and maybe, just maybe a verdict. Or not.

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.

SCO: We’ll Live to Sue Another Day

John Paczkowski in News on March 30, 2010 at 3:04 pm PT

SCO’s seemingly endless legal campaign over the copyrights to Unix may finally, thankfully, be over. On Tuesday afternoon, a federal jury found that Novell owns the rights to the operating system, foiling SCO’s plans to seek millions of dollars in licensing fees from companies it accused of illegally distributing its proprietary Unix code with the Linux OS.

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.

VirnetX Holding Soon to Be Holding $105.75 Million of Microsoft’s Money

John Paczkowski in News on March 17, 2010 at 4:17 am PT

VirnetX, a company Microsoft claims was established solely to sue it for millions, has succeeded in doing just that. A Texas court on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to pay $105.75 million to VirnetX for violating two patents related to secure virtual private network technology.

Google’s European Road Trip Gets Even Worse

Peter Kafka in Media on February 24, 2010 at 5:41 am PT

Maybe Google should just retire its passport for a bit. In China, the search giant is battling hackers and the government, who may be one and the same. In Europe, the company is being hauled in front of an antitrust review. And Italy? Total disaster.

Latest Microsoft Patent Describes Method of Losing Patent Infringement Suits

John Paczkowski in News on May 21, 2009 at 7:29 am PT

2009 is proving to be a year of dubious distinction for Microsoft in patent litigation. On Wednesday the company was ordered to pay $200 million to Toronto-based i4i for willfully infringing its patents.

That Tiny Sum? It's Your Digital Download Royalties After Packaging and Breakage Costs.

John Paczkowski in News on March 9, 2009 at 5:10 am PT

A song purchased from iTunes or Amazon is no different from one bought from a brick-and-mortar retail outlet, despite the vast differences in the economies of distribution between the two. That, in a nutshell, was the jury verdict handed down in a case brought by rapper Eminem’s former production company, FBT Productions, against Universal Music Group.