It's been very quiet on the Patent Wars front the past few weeks, with very little noise made since the Apple/HTC deal. But now Apple has been found guilty of infringing three MobileMedia patents. More...

The owner of one of the most popular sources of pirated material in the UK, Surfthechannel.com, has been sentenced to 4 years in jail after being found guilty of facilitating copyright infrigment. More...

Indian internet providers have taken steps to reduce the amount of piracy ongoing in the country, blocking sites such as The Pirate Bay, as well as Vimeo, for seemingly no discernible reason. More...

HTC has filed a second lawsuit against Apple, alleging patent infringement. The company claims Apple willingly infringed on their patents with many of their devices, and seek compensation. More...

Grooveshark has been served another lawsuit, to continue its ongoing copyright issues. The lawsuit was issued on July 15th in the state of Tennessee. As CNET reports, the lawsuit comes with the backing of song... More...

Following this Monday's WWDC revelation of iOS 5 and iCloud, it turned out that the iCloud name, which Apple purchased from Xcerion (who renamed their product to CloudMe) towards the end of April, was intended... More...

Android is free? Not if you ask the currently fourth-place player in the mobile market: Microsoft. Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer hinted at this notion last October, stating at Android had "patent fees." Yes, just as... More...

You may recall the lawsuit Oracle filed against Google towards the end of last summer over what Oracle alleges are bits of intellectual property Google lifted from Sun Microsystems, of which Oracle acquired in 2009.... More...

Motorola, one of the major telephone handset makers, has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission accusing Apple of violating 18 patents. In an announcement on the Motorola website, the company said that... More...

Back in March, Apple sued Taiwanese company, HTC for infringing on 20 of their iPhone patents. Today, according to Fortune, HTC has issued their formal response--a counter-suit. The suit involves five patents, which according to... More...

Although Intel's mighty proud of the Core 2 Duo, it looks like the chip wasn't all home-grown - a lawsuit filed today by the University of Wisconsin claims that the processor infringes on patented technology... More...

SanDisk has filed two separate lawsuits in the U.S. District Court in Wisconsin, seeking unspecified damages and a permanent ban on three patent infringements accusing a total of 25 companies of using SanDisk technology in... More...

Last week's arrest of a 26-year-old Cheltenham man, and the related closure of the TV-links website, has prompted a flurry of speculation that the very foundations of the internet (linking to stuff) might be under... More...

In this sue-happy world, it was only a matter of time before Linux became a target. A company has dared to declare a patent infringement against not one, but two Linux vendors. IP Innovation and... More...

JuxtaComm alleges that its data integration patents are being infringed by companies that include Microsoft and IBM. Data integration software vendor JuxtaComm Technologies has filed suit in a Texas court alleging patent... More...

Apple may be in trouble with its Apple TV set top player and the iTunes store in regards to two separate lawsuits filed this week. The first claims that Apple knowingly infringed on copyrights belonging... More...

Toshiba Corporation has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission seeking to block imports of DVDs and related technology into the U.S. from 17 companies breaching its patents on DVD technology. The Tokyo-based... More...

Sirius and XM are under fire from various industry organizations and the public in general for their upcoming merger. Earlier last month, the two companies agreed to merge in a $13 billion deal that would... More...

Apple is hiring. You don't need any knowledge in computers or technology. A law degree is required however. Apple is in court fairly often; I'm sure almost everyone is aware of the recent Cisco... More...

When is a Web site like windowshome.info not a Microsoft Web site? When it's a site operated by three people, including two Utahns, designed to trick people into thinking it's a Microsoft site. So says... More...

A journalist and well-known helicopter pilot in Los Angeles has filed suit against video-sharing site YouTube, claiming that it encouraged users to violate copyright law. Robert Tur says video he shot of the beating of... More...

The technology used by Vonage Holdings to deliver voicemail service to its 1.6 million VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) telephony customers infringes another company's patent, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. Klausner Technologies has... More...

IDT owned Net2Phone filed a lawsuit late Thursday against eBay owned Skype, claiming the p2p VOIP software infringes on one of it's patents. Net2Phone is seeking an injunction and collection of damages according to the... More...

On Monday Burst.com, a companythat develops software that helps companies speed up the delivery of audio andvideo files, announced that it had filed a countersuit against Apple Computerclaiming that the iTunes software, the iPod, and... More...

Two popular iPod accessory makers are embroiled in a legal dispute that's caused one of them to sue the other, alleging patent infringement. Netalog, the parent company of iPod peripheral maker Digital Lifestyle Outfitters (DLO),... More...

By naming the next version of Windows "Vista," Microsoft may have stepped on the toes of another software company just down the road in Redmond. That would be Vista, a business software and services company... More...

Microsoft and Alacritech have settled a dispute over networking technology the software giant plans to use in future versions of Windows. Alacritech, which sued Microsoft for patent infringement last year, announced... More...

Thanks chulomixed for this submission. The U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, has ordered Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and its U.S. unit to pay $90.7 million in damages to Immersion Corp. for patent... More...

Thanks to IAIHMB for the news. In a twist on the classic David and Goliath formula, Web giant Yahoo is suing Menlo Park, Calif., start-up Xfire for patent infringement. The basis... More...

Borrowing a line from Allstate Insurance, Microsoft wants customers to know they are in good hands when they choose its software. The software maker plans to announce Wednesday that it will indemnify... More...

...and this is the third Intel-related story for today :rolleyes: -configure Another punch was thrown in the intellectual property scrap between Intel and Patriot Scientific yesterday when Patriot said it has countersued... More...

IBM won a tactical victory Friday in a legal battle with SCO Group when a judge ordered SCO to show within 30 days the Linux software to which it believes it has rights and to... More...

Los Angeles (Reuters) - Privately held Friskit Inc. on Tuesday said it had filed a patent infringement lawsuit against digital media software provider RealNetworks Inc RNWK.O and its online music unit, Listen.com. San Francisco -based... More...

A federal jury on Tuesday found eBay guilty of patent infringement and ordered the online auction giant to pay $35 million in damages. A U.S. district Court jury sided with MercExchange... More...