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Google wins patent for search results page design
December 13, 2006
Intellectual-property lawyers say there's no need to fret about infringement lawsuits unless sites are veritable copies.
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How Washington reinvented invention
April 5, 2006
Former White House adviser Brian Kahin raises questions about a controversial patent decision.
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Fighting for patent property
March 28, 2006
Patents mean big money for big tech companies, so tech titans fight long and hard to preserve them.
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Patent auctions: Lawyer's dream or way of the future?
March 3, 2006
Dinner, drinks and a bitter lawsuit: You might find them both at the Ocean Tomo patent auction next month.
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Creating a game? Get a 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.
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Novell boosts legal team with litigation expert
August 6, 2007
Company taps high-powered patent lawyer Eric Acker, who has a formidable history, including 45 jury trials as a federal prosecutor.
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Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents
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.
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Court rejects Vonage bid for patent case retrial
May 3, 2007
Net phone company can cite a recent landmark Supreme Court decision as part of pending appeal, but doesn't get a new trial.
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Microsoft wins suit over antipiracy patent
March 27, 2006
Federal appeals court rejects a Texas lawyer's claim that his patent covers Microsoft's product activation program.
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Lawyer insists Microsoft infringed antipiracy patent
March 9, 2006
Texas attorney with patent on antipiracy system appeals ruling that said company's product activation program didn't infringe.
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BlackBerry case: No shutoff, for now
February 24, 2006
Judge James Spencer scolds patent holder NTP and device maker Research In Motion for not coming to a settlement.
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Microsoft gives go-ahead to open-source Web services
September 13, 2006
Company won't assert patents related to 35 Web services specs--a move designed to ease developers' legal concerns.
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Week in review: Microsoft's kick in the patents
February 23, 2007
While Microsoft finds itself in a dogfight over patents, battles over the iPhone trademark and satellite radio settle down.
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