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Google homepage awarded US patent
News Google has received a patent in the US for the design of its famously minimalist homepage, but it won’t apply here.
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Microsoft owes $388 million after losing patent case
News Microsoft plans to appeal the case, filed by Uniloc over anti-piracy systems.
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TomTom and Microsoft declare patent war ceasefire
News The two companies settle instead of undergoing a costly open source patent war.
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TomTom - The drums of a patent war with Microsoft?
In-depth Microsoft's IP claim against TomTom could just be the first salvo in an open source patent war.
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Microsoft celebrates 10,000 patent milestone
News Software giant Microsoft is celebrating an innovation milestone after being awarded its 10,000th US patent.
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SCO owes Novell: final ruling
News The long-running battle over Unix copyrights may finally be at its end, as the presiding judge reiterates his ruling that SCO must pay Novell over $3 million.
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SCO hit with Novell court ruling
News Court orders SCO to hand over $2.5 million to rival Novell as legal spat over Linux continues.
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Qualcomm and Broadcom in WCDMA patent spat
News The two chip makers are fighting it out in an American appeals court over royalties Broadcom says Qualcomm owes it for phone chip tech.
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Alcatel-Lucent back in court over $1.5 billion suit
News Having lost, won, then lost again, the networking specialist is again appealing a patent dispute decision that, at one stage, saw it receive a multi billion dollar judgement in its favour.
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Nokia, InterDigital drop UK patent suit
News But the two mobile tech firms aren't dropping the patent battle in the US.
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Litigating against innovation: Legal attacks on Linux
In-depth Patents and how they're controlled are damaging the way technology is developed - and the Linux case is a key example of this.
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