http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Microsoft Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135485 Aloft Media LLC has dismissed Oracle Corp. from a patent infringement suit that targets several leading financial products companies over their software, less than two weeks after the patent-holding company asserted a second patent in the suit. http://www.law360.com/articles/135485 http://www.law360.com/articles/135492 MPC Corp., a small business computer services provider that filed for bankruptcy protection earlier in November, has filed a Chapter 11 liquidation plan that calls for all secured claims to be repaid in full and a possibility for unsecured claimants to be paid back with interest. http://www.law360.com/articles/135492 http://www.law360.com/articles/135398 RealNetworks Inc. and MTV Networks have opened talks that could see the U.S. digital media company give up its majority stake in online music seller Rhapsody.com to the company best known as the first music video channel. http://www.law360.com/articles/135398 http://www.law360.com/articles/134640 A Chinese court has ruled that Microsoft Corp. infringed the intellectual property of a Chinese software company by going beyond the scope of a licensing agreement in using some of its fonts in Microsoft operating systems. http://www.law360.com/articles/134640 http://www.law360.com/articles/134491 In light of the enormous number of patents out there — and the enormous amount of patented content in products like laptops, cell phones, set top boxes — there has got to be a better way and better guidelines for assessing patent damages, says Robert Van Nest of Keker & Van Nest LLP, who specializes in intellectual property litigation. http://www.law360.com/articles/134491 http://www.law360.com/articles/134373 Microsoft Corp. has traded more barbs with Novell Inc. in that company's ongoing lawsuit accusing Microsoft of blocking competition in the computer operating systems market, alleging Novell lost the right to bring claims when it sold its software to another company. http://www.law360.com/articles/134373 http://www.law360.com/articles/134316 Computer-accessory maker Logitech Inc. has been sued by two other electronics companies that say Logitech's laptop cooling pad infringes their patent. http://www.law360.com/articles/134316 http://www.law360.com/articles/133948 Microsoft Corp. has cut a deal in Digital Reg of Texas LLC’s suit alleging the software giant and other companies have infringed its patent by making and selling digital content that incorporates Digital Rights Management technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/133948 http://www.law360.com/articles/133772 Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. is not liable to cover a $1.4 million judgment against a software importer that incurred the wrath of Microsoft Corp. for allegedly infringing its copyright with counterfeit goods, a federal judge has ruled. http://www.law360.com/articles/133772 http://www.law360.com/articles/133318 As part of a string of recent patent infringement litigation, Aloft Media LLC has asserted a second newly issued patent for computer software technology in a pending infringement action against a slew of companies including Oracle Corp., E-Trade Securities LLC and TD Ameritrade Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/133318 http://www.law360.com/articles/133294 A former federal judge has been appointed special master to oversee discovery disputes between Fannie Mae and its former auditor KPMG LLP in multidistrict litigation stemming from the mortgage giant's 2004 accounting scandal. http://www.law360.com/articles/133294 http://www.law360.com/articles/133130 IMA-Hong Kong Ltd. and Spectra Merchandising International Inc. have become the latest portable electronics companies to settle with Tsera LLC in its infringement suit over a patent covering touch pad technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/133130 http://www.law360.com/articles/132375 Microsoft Corp.'s third-party claims in an intellectual property suit between Web management company Quinstreet Inc. and patent holder Parallel Networks LLC have been transferred to a Texas federal court after months of legal wrangling over proper venue. http://www.law360.com/articles/132375 http://www.law360.com/articles/132288 Tsera LLC has settled patent infringement claims with seven portable electronics makers the company had accused of stealing its touch pad technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/132288 http://www.law360.com/articles/132178 Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are among more than a dozen high-profile companies targeted in a patent infringement lawsuit over technology for making interactive maps on the Internet. http://www.law360.com/articles/132178 http://www.law360.com/articles/131770 A federal judge has rejected a second attempt by Microsoft Corp. to invalidate three network services technology patents asserted by WebXchange Inc. against Microsoft software clients, concluding that no controversy exists between the technology giant and WebXchange. http://www.law360.com/articles/131770 http://www.law360.com/articles/131447 Two patent-holding companies have won out over defendants Microsoft Corp. and Vizio Inc. in a federal judge's decision outlining broader claims construction for two heavily litigated patents covering a method to enhance image resolution on video displays. http://www.law360.com/articles/131447 http://www.law360.com/articles/130900 Computer maker Psystar Corp. has filed an amended antitrust complaint against Apple Inc. over use of its Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system. http://www.law360.com/articles/130900 http://www.law360.com/articles/130796 Microsoft Corp. has joined Uniloc USA Inc. in appealing a judge's ruling last month that overturned a $388 million jury verdict against Microsoft in a patent suit over Uniloc's software security technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/130796 http://www.law360.com/articles/130682 Patent-holding company Aloft Media LLC has dropped Infor Global Solutions (Michigan) Inc. from its suit accusing Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and others of infringing three patents related to collaborative decision protocol software. http://www.law360.com/articles/130682