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OSDL hires lawyer, opens China office
August 27, 2004
The lab home of Linux founder Linus Torvalds hires an intellectual-property attorney and says hello to Beijing.
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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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Intellectual-property precedent could help Microsoft appeal
March 25, 2004
A decision in an earlier European antitrust case involving the health care industry could bode well for the software maker as it prepares its appeal.
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Microsoft Corp.
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Attorney: GPLv3 may not bind Microsoft
July 25, 2007
Software giant likely will be able to extricate itself from the implications of the open-source license, lawyer says.
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Man charged with hacking USC database
April 20, 2006
Prosecutors allege the San Diego man nabbed sensitive info on more than 275,000 people from a university system.
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Three convictions in Net piracy sweeps
March 9, 2005
Software pirates plead guilty, face up to 10 years in prison, in largest multinational Net piracy investigation to date.
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Settling down?
April 2, 2004
Microsoft's top attorney, Brad Smith, says the software giant's recent antitrust settlements reflect its "very committed" stance on industry collaboration.
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SCO suit now seeks $3 billion from IBM
June 17, 2003
SCO Group ups the ante in an amendment to its suit against IBM, seeking more than $3 billion in damages for alleged copying of proprietary Unix intellectual property into Linux.
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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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Patents raise stakes in search wars
February 26, 2004
The dispute between Yahoo and Google over keyword auction method offers an early sign of the intellectual property struggles to come in one of the Web's hottest markets.
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State AGs warn file-sharing companies
August 5, 2004
Top state cops cite child porn users and privacy, copyright concerns in critical letter to P2P firms.
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Judge accepts expanded SCO lawsuit
February 28, 2004
A judge OKs the SCO Group's changes to a lawsuit against IBM that now seeks $5 billion in damages for Big Blue's alleged moving of Unix intellectual property into Linux.
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Web services patents fetch $15.5 million
December 7, 2004
Mysterious winning bidder in Commerce One patent auction dashes out of court without discussing plans.
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SCO opens new front in Linux war
December 23, 2003
SCO Group targets a new group in an effort to profit from what it says is illegal use of Unix intellectual property in Linux, but Novell claims it still holds copyrights.
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Hollywood group drops DVD-copying case
January 23, 2004
A request by the DVD Copy Control Association to California courts marks the close of the last prominent legal battle over DeCSS code.
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Open-source luminaries spurn SCO
July 31, 2003
Linux development leader Linus Torvalds and Free Software Foundation attorney Eben Moglen reject SCO Group's argument that Linux users should pay license fees for using the OS.
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SCO warns of IBM lawsuit risks
March 31, 2003
The company says its billion-dollar lawsuit alleging that IBM misappropriated trade secrets will be costly and could have other consequences.
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Year in review: Linux under attack
December 19, 2003
Lawsuits, threats and conspiracy theories swirled across the open-source landscape as the Linux operating system gained new converts.
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Red Hat's case against SCO put on hold
April 7, 2004
A federal judge denies SCO's motion to throw out a suit brought by the Linux seller but put the case on hold, awaiting an outcome in a related case.
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SCO targets federal supercomputer users
March 19, 2004
The company sends letters threatening two Energy Department facilities with legal action for using Linux.
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