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Technology - December, 2011

214 articles

• SmartDrive Meets DriveCam Patent Claims Head-On
• Bristol-Myers Escapes Navy Encryption IP Suit
• BuySAFE Goes After Google In Safe-Shopping Patent Suit
• Rambus Strikes Semiconductor IP Deal With Broadcom
• CVC, ConvergEx Deal On The Rocks Amid US Probes
• Case Study: In Re Compellent Technologies
• FCC Approves AT&T's $2B Deal For Qualcomm Licenses
• MRV Can't Stay Shareholder Suit Over Backdated Options
• Overheating iPad Class Action Shut Down For Good
• Gateway Reaches Deal To Unplug Faulty PC Class Action
• EBay Grabs Slice Of German Online Payment Market
• Akamai Snaps Up Cloud Accelerator For $268M
• Sony Faces Action Over Movie, Video Game Records
• PACid Looks To Put A Fork In Encryption Patent Suits
• Nintendo Mii Avatars Not Playing By IP Rules: Suit
• Fed. Circ. Kills Cooling Tech IP Suit Against Sony, Lenovo
• 9th Circ. Backs Dismissal of Apple False Advertising Suit
• MacroSolve Fires Off 6 More Mobile App Patent Suits
• When To Call The Feds For Trade Secret Theft
• Nissim Gets ClearPlay's Claims Axed In DVD Filter IP Fight
• EA Can't Kill Activision's $400M 'Call Of Duty' Claims
• Verizon Unit's Win Against 2 Wage Class Members Upheld
• Sealing The Deal: Hogan Aids Paetec In Windstream Merger
• Thoma Bravo To Reel In Top Digital Media Provider
• Sears Faces Another Video Signal Processing IP Suit
• Google Favors Own Shopping Site In Searches: Brazilian Co.
• Insurer Tries To Sidestep EA Antitrust Action Coverage
• Apple Ends Playlist Patent Fight With Personal Audio
• Australia Warns Vodafone Of Fines Over Privacy Failures
• Hagens Berman, Cohen Milstein To Lead E-Books Suit
• Immersion Beats $300M Suit Over Pumped-Up Stock Prices
• Primary Global Sales Exec Gets 2.5 Years Over Stock Tips
• Rambus Reaches $11M Truce In Stock Options Suit
• EQT Pays $304M For Norway's No. 2 Telecom
• Tennis Channel Wins Cable Bias Dispute With Comcast
• Game Over For 'Final Fantasy' Subscription Row: 9th Circ.
• SEC Settles With Player In $8.6M China Voice Ponzi
• AU Optronics Escapes Apeldyn's LCD Patent Battle
• Motorola Infringed 1 Microsoft Patent: ITC Judge
• Failed AT&T Deal Leaves Stronger DOJ In Its Wake
• Investors Push 2nd Circ. To Revive Celestica Fraud Suit
• Microsoft, Google Bash Data Transmission Patent Suit
• RIM Exits Personal Audio's IP Suit Over Phone Playlists
• Ex-Amdocs IT Workers Win Cert. In OT Action
• Chinese Capital Fund Raises $50M For Gaming Co. Razer
• Nuance Nabs Voice Software Rival Vlingo
• Ex-Akamai Employee Sentenced For Economic Espionage
• Latham Aids Solar Co. In $130M Korean-Led Funding Round
• Sens. Press FTC To Look Into Google's Search Tactics
• Simpson, Milbank Aid KKR, Google In Solar Investment
• Reed Smith Snags Seasoned Silicon Valley IP Pro
• Groupon Aims To Log Out Of Trademark Battle
• Ramping Up Fair Trade Enforcement In Taiwan
• Fed. Circ. Won't Nix Marvell IP Case Transfer
• KPCB Leads $35M Financing Round For ERecyclingCorps
• 3i Hits Brazilian Market With $55M Cable Co. Stake
• US V. Chung — A Study Of Economic Espionage
• Ruling Delayed In Kodak's Patent Battle With Apple, RIM
• Tech Co. Juniper Sues Competitor Over Firewall Patents
• Hagens Berman Seeks To Represent E-Book Antitrust Class
• Acer, Motorola, HP Hit With Patent Suits Over Tablets
• Kyocera Says Kodak Violated Inkjet Patent
• Apple Notches Limited Win In HTC Smartphone IP Case
• Vote Set For Protect IP Act As Filibuster Threat Looms
• Sprint Slams 4 Cable Cos. With VoP Patent Suits
• Cisco Resolves Patent Row Over Device Detection Tech
• Samsung Expands Apple Patent War With New German Suit
• AT&T Drops $39B T-Mobile Bid Amid Antitrust Scrutiny
• Cablevision, Verizon End Internet Speed Ad Suit
• Clay Capital Exec Cops To $4M Insider Trading Scheme
• BT Takes Aim At Google On Navigation, Location Patents
• Nordic Capital Bids $292M For Swedish Software Firm Orc
• Oracle Wrongly Denied Severance After Sun Deal: Suit
• Novell, Microsoft Antitrust Feud Ends In Hung Jury
• FarmVille Creator Zynga Kicks Off $1B IPO
• Pfizer, Others To Shell Out $6M For Superfund Cleanup
• Judge Won't Erase HP Hard Drive Suit
• Ind. Governor To Be Deposed In IBM Contract Suit
• Comcast CEO Fined Over HSR Notification Violations
• Commerce Bans UAE Co. For Selling Web Filters To Syria
• ITC To Tackle Elpida's Memory IP Claims Against Nanya
• ITC To Probe Rovi's IP Claims Against Vizio, Haier
• Yahoo, Xerox End Tiff Over Internet Search Patents
• Case Study: Coughlan V. NXP
• Heller Ehrman Puts Client's $7M Malpractice Claim To Rest
• Nixon Peabody Aids US Bank In Funding For Solar Co. KDC
• Toshiba Settles Ogma's ITC Sound Effects Patent Case
• TomTom, Garmin Beat GPS Patent Suit In Fed. Circ.
• 'Final Fantasy' Maker Warns Gamers Of Data Hack
• Microsoft's Cloud Service To Adopt EU Privacy Standard
• Building A Smartphone Patent Pool
• OfficeMax, Scotts Can't Escape Store Locator IP Suit
• Jones Day Helps Lam Research Pick Up Novellus For $3B
• How They Won It: Quinn Wins $12B DRAM Trial For Micron
• FTC Probes Carrier IQ Over Cellphone Data Tracking
• British Man Charged With $10M Fraud Of Hewlett-Packard
• SOPA Opponents Mobilize Ahead Of House Markup
• Philips, Seoul Bury Hatchet In LED Patent Dispute
• TPG, SurveyMonkey Team Up On MarketTools Buy
• Jury To Tackle Novell, Microsoft Antitrust Dispute
• HTC Aims To Unplug Evo Phone Defect Class Action
• EU OKs IBM Antitrust Remedies In Mainframe Probe
• Epson Photo Viewers Infringe Media Player Patent: Suit
• ITC Extends Deadline For Apple, HTC Patent Ruling
• Free Speech Implications Of Calif. Cell Phone Case
• The O2 Micro Solution To The O2 Micro Conundrum: Part 2
• FBI Denies FOIA Request For Carrier IQ Docs
• Dodd Champions Anti-Piracy Bill Ahead Of House Vote
• Academy Loses Bid For Emails In GoDaddy IP Fight
• Yahoo Should Release Letters Inviting Bids: Investor
• Apple Accused Of Violating Caller ID Patent
• Blue Coat Investor Challenges $1B Thoma Bravo Deal
• 3 Hitachi-LG Execs Cop To Disk Drive Price-Fixing Plot
• Sidley Austin Welcomes Greenberg IP Pro To SF Office
• Authors Push For Cert. In Google Books IP Action
• Calif. OT Law Covers Out-Of-State Workers: 9th Circ.
• Connector Co. Says Imports Don't Infringe Rival's Patent
• Aussie Privacy Czar Probes Telstra Data Breach
• Dechert Guides Court Square To Purchase Encompass
• Samsung, Sharp Sued Over Bluetooth Patents
• Verizon Can't Hit Pause On ActiveVideo Patent Royalties
• Samsung Exits Suit Over Printer Link Patents
• Telemarketers Call Out Comcast In OT Class Action
• HP Sales Reps Lose Class Cert. Bid In OT Suit
• EC Seeks More Data On Google's $12.5B Motorola Bid
• DOJ Challenge Put On Ice As AT&T Rethinks T-Mobile Deal
• Telstra Partially Shutters Website To Combat Data Breach
• 4th Circ. Scraps Billing Agent's AT&T Antitrust Suit
• AT&T Faces $35M Suit Over Disclosed Smartphone Data
• Australia Has Lingering Concern Over Telstra Split
• Canadian Telecoms Buy Into Leafs, Raptors Owner For $1B
• E-Book Industry Antitrust Suits Joined In NY MDL
• German Court Hands Motorola Win In Apple Patent War
• IBM, CDW Sued Over Database Patents
• DOJ Seeks To Delay Suit Over AT&T, T-Mobile Merger
• Apportionment Treats The Symptom, Not The Disease
• 9th Circ. Tosses Appeal Of Cert. Denial In Hitachi TV Suit
• Samsung Galaxy Ban Lifted Again In Australian Apple Row
• White House Issues New Federal Cloud Security Rules
• USPTO Tosses Oracle Patent In Suit Over Google's Android
• 'FFXI' Gamers Ask 9th Circ. To Restart False Ad Suit
• Game Over For Sony PlayStation Update Action
• Indirect Purchasers Have Standing In LCD MDL: Judge
• Smith Micro Execs Hyped Software, Then Cashed Out: Suit
• Samsung Can't Get IPhone 4S Sales Blocked In France
• PersonalWeb Unleashes Cloud IP Suits On Google, Amazon
• Fed. Circ. Won't Reboot Memorylink IP Row With Motorola
• Grey Mountain Takes Stake In Software Co. Stratix
• Apple, AT&T's Bid To Bar IP Defendants Using AIA Fails
• DOJ Wants More Info On Oracle's $1.5B RightNow Buy
• France Telecom Loses Appeal In Illegal State Aid Case
• Cravath Helps IBM Nab Cloud-Based DemandTec For $440M
• China Court Rejects Apple's IPad Trademark Claims
• Level 3 Officers Try To Snuff Out Shareholder Suit
• Yahoo Settles Interclick Investor Suits Over $270M Sale
• Judge Trims NY's Antitrust Suit Against Intel
• Ventizz Co. Snags Austrian ID Security Outfit
• Walker Digital Seeks ITC Probe Of Blu-Ray Players
• Yahoo Exits Email Filtering Patent Battle
• Sprint, AT&T, Verizon Sued Over Calling Card Patent
• Philips Asks 9th Circ. To Sweep Back $2M After IP Win
• AT&T's Yanked T-Mobile Merger App Won't Stall DOJ Suit
• Ex-Marvell Technology Manager Cops To Insider Trading
• The O2 Micro Solution To The O2 Micro Conundrum: Part 1
• RIM Can't Use BBX Mark At Conference: Judge
• Cablevision Sues Verizon Over Internet Speed Ad Claims
• Yahoo Wins $610M In Trademark Suit Over Lottery Hoax
• Sprint Asks Judge Not To Delay AT&T Trial
• Investor Action Brings Cloud Computing Co. Down To Earth
• Nike, Apple Face IP, Antitrust Claims Over Fitness Monitors
• ITC Extends Deadline For Apple, HTC Patent Investigation
• Apple Buyer Urges 9th Circ. To Revive False Ad Action
• Zynga, Vostu Settle Online Gaming Copyright Battle
• Motorola Can't Add ITunes, ICloud To Apple IP War: Judge
• CDC Corp. Creditors Ask For Ch. 11 Trustee
• Dutch Competition Agency Raids KPN, Vodafone, T-Mobile
• U Of Ill. Says Micron Flouted Its Semiconductor Patents
• Apple, Publishers Face EU E-Book Antitrust Probe
• Making Sense Of Virtual Dollars
• TPG, Apax Sued For €268M Over Hellas Notes
• Tekelec Shareholders Sue To Halt $780M Sale To Siris
• Apple, AT&T Targeted In Latest Carrier IQ Class Action
• Yahoo Investor Takes Aim At Board Over Bidding Rules
• Eatoni's Antitrust Suit Against RIM Scuttled
• Apple, Samsung, Others Sued Over Mobile Data Patent
• PE Firm TCV Takes Stake In Danish Software Co. SiteCore
• Apple Loses Bid For US Ban On Samsung Devices
• Supreme Court Refuses To Pick Up AT&T Benefits Action
• HP Printer Defect Opens Door To Hackers: Suit
• Fraudster Who Helped In Google Probe Gets 6 Years
• Judge Won't Make EA Produce NFL Memo In Antitrust Suit
• EU, Apple, Others Launch Child Internet Safety Coalition
• Fed. Circ. OKs Transfer Of Marvell IP Suit To Calif.
• Ad Regulator Tells Verizon To Halt FiOS 'No. 1' Claims
• China Telecom, Unicom Offer Fixes To End Antitrust Probe
• Google Gets All Clear From DOJ For $400M Admeld Buy
• Vizio, Sears Sued Over Video Signal Processing Patents
• ITC To Probe Cisco, HP, Others Over Network Device IP
• Apple Faces ITC Probe Over Secure Communication Patent
• Carrier IQ Faces Probes, Class Actions Over Tracking App
• Verizon To Buy Cable Cos.' Wireless Spectrum For $3.6B
• AT&T, Apple Antitrust Suit Sent To Arbitration
• Google Seeks Sanctions, Dismissal Of Walker Patent Suit
• Aussie High Court Extends Samsung Galaxy Ban By 1 Week
• Judge Nixes IBM's Protest Of $12B VA Tech Contract
• Comverse Targets Merrill Lynch Over $46M In ARS
• Telecom Says Microsoft's Hotmail Violates Email Patent
• Private Equity Could Boost Yahoo's Competitive Edge
• Verizon Avoids Antitrust Claims Over Infrastructure Access
• Plan For Single EU Patent Moves Ahead
• Franken Demands Info On Smartphone Tracking Software
• Google, Facebook Join 7th Circ. Porn Row To Defend Links
• AT&T Slams FCC Report On T-Mobile Deal As Biased
• EU Expands Sanctions Against Syria