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December 13, 2006 Intellectual-property lawyers say there's no need to fret about infringement lawsuits unless sites are veritable copies. TAGS: patent, search result, invention, intellectual property, Google Inc., attorney, design, protection, GUI, lawyer

September 7, 2007 With patents, copyrights and marketing rights playing an ever bigger role, gamemakers are discovering they need legal hawks just as much as everyone else. TAGS: patent, game company, intellectual property, online game, intellectual property right, terms of service, EULA, lawyer, attorney, games

May 14, 2007 Top Microsoft lawyer alleges in a magazine interview that the Linux kernel and OpenOffice.org violate hundreds of the company's patents. TAGS: patent, open source, open-source software, Linux kernel, OpenOffice.org, Linux, Steve Ballmer, intellectual property, Novell Inc., Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., lawyer, article

October 21, 2005 Scientigo is close to signing a deal with an IP-licensing firm to try to "monetize" patents it says are infringed by XML. TAGS: patent, XML, SGML, intellectual property, claim, royalty, software company, asset, lawyer, IBM Corp., agreement, IP, Microsoft Corp.

March 3, 2006 Dinner, drinks and a bitter lawsuit: You might find them both at the Ocean Tomo patent auction next month. TAGS: patent, intellectual property, auction, consulting company, lawsuit, RFID, asset, IBM Corp., lawyer, bank, IP, HP

July 20, 2005 Who does the system protect--unsung inventors or opportunist litigants? TAGS: Paul Ryan, Rambus Inc., intellectual property, patent, invention, lawyer, IBM Corp., U.S.

February 23, 2007 While Microsoft finds itself in a dogfight over patents, battles over the iPhone trademark and satellite radio settle down. TAGS: American Software, patent, Alcatel, damage, Week in review, AT&T Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., intellectual property, U.S., reader, lawyer, Microsoft Corp., open source, MP3, video, Microsoft Windows

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