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IBM sues Amazon.com for patent infringement
IBM is suing Amazon.com and seeking unspecified damages for patent infringement.24 Oct 2006
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NetApp and Oracle drop patent lawsuits after three-year fight
NetApp and Oracle have agreed to drop pending patent lawsuits against each other. The lawsuits began in 2007 after NetApp filed a suit against Oracle-owned Sun Microsystem, seeking an injunction ag...10 Sep 2010
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Scottish firm sues Apple over iPhone rendering technology
A Scottish firm is suing Apple over claims the computer giant illegally used patented technology on the iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Glasgow-based Picsel Technologies filed its US lawsuit at the ...18 Feb 2009
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NetApp files suit against Sun over ZFS
Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp) revealed this morning that it is filing suit against Sun Microsystems Inc., seeking an injunction against distribution of Sun's Zettabyte File System (ZFS) software ...04 Sep 2007
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Microsoft hit by second WGA lawsuit
Microsoft is facing a second lawsuit over its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-piracy program. WGA checks that the Windows operating system running on a machine has a valid licence, but interne...05 Jul 2006
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Microsoft and Apple sued for offering online updates
UK-based BTG has sued Microsoft and Apple for allegedly infringing a patent which covers web-enabled software update technologies. BTG has filed the lawsuit with New York-based Teleshuttle and Tele...22 Jul 2004
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VeriSign dealt another legal blow in Icann suit
VeriSign has lost another round in its battle against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) when a US federal judge dismissed the company's antitrust claims, filed in an a...02 Sep 2004
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Microsoft pays up in NetWare case
Microsoft has settled two major monopoly abuse cases with Novell and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), ending years of legal wrangling. The company will pay Novell $536m ...09 Nov 2004
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Patent suit takes aim at Cisco routers and switches
A Florida-based company is suing Cisco Systems for alleged patent infringement, charging the networking giant with stealing its routing technology. ConnecTel claims Cisco is using without compensat...04 Nov 2004
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Visa sued over online authentication
Two technology companies have sued Visa USA and Visa International Service Association, claiming that the credit card companies stole their patented authentication technology for online transaction...12 May 2003
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Web giants fight patent infringement claims
Microsoft, Yahoo and Time Warner are among the big internet players fighting patent infringement claims brought against them by a little-known software company. The company, Teknowledge, is also su...06 Feb 2004
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Internet trading giants face patent challenge
Intellectual property and technology commercialisation firm BTG has started legal action against Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com and two other internet companies for infringing patents related to th...16 Sep 2004
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Google sued over licensing spat
Website analytics technology developer Digital Envoy has filed a lawsuit Monday against Google, charging the search-engine operator with abusing a licensing agreement between the two companies. Dig...31 Mar 2004
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HP sues Gateway over patents
Hewlett-Packard has filed a lawsuit against Gateway accusing it of violating six technology patents relating to desktop, notebook and server computer systems. The suit alleged Gateway of violating ...26 Mar 2004
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Amazon demands millions in damages from e-mail spoofers
Amazon.com has filed 11 lawsuits against online marketers in the US and Canada, alleging they use the Amazon name when sending e-mail advertisements. The suits seek millions of dollars in damages a...27 Aug 2003
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Novell sues Microsoft over WordPerfect
Novell has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing the software giant of unfairly eliminating competition for office productivity applications during the time Novell owned the WordPe...15 Nov 2004
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PeopleSoft sued over faulty installation
Ohio's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against PeopleSoft, seeking $510m in damages stemming from an allegedly faulty installation of the company's ERP and student administration applications ...29 Mar 2004
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Salesforce.com sues UpShot over ad claims
Customer relationship management software company Salesforce.com has filed a lawsuit against competitor UpShot, alleging false advertising and unfair competition. Salesforce.com argued that UpShot'...15 Jul 2003
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InstallShield sues Wise for electronic espionage
InstallShield Software has filed a lawsuit against Wise Solutions, alleging that the company engaged in electronic espionage on at least 903 occasions. Chief finance officer Tyler Sheffield said In...21 Jul 2003
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Arm sued over Java technology
Nazomi Communications has filed a patent infringement suit against Arm's Java application performance boosting technology Jazelle. Nazomi, which specialises in hardware Java accelerators, is seekin...29 May 2002
