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Appeals court hands Google patent case setback

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:10:28 +0000

Hyperphrase Technologies, LLC and Hyperphrase Incorporated had filed lawsuit in Wisconsin saying that Google Incorporated infringed on four patents used to make AutoLink and AdSense. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said... Read more...

Rambus Suffers a Setback in Court

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:48:08 +0000

After several recent rulings in its favor, Rambus' quest to recover royalties from the memory chip industry was dealt a blow this week with the dismissal of its patent case against Infineon Technologies on allegations... Read more...

Setback for SCO's Linux battle

Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:19:45 +0000

On Wednesday SCO lost its lawsuit against DaimlerChrysler. SCO accused DiamlerChrysler of violating agreements to use the Unix OS, which SCO claims ownership of. The best part is the hearing only took twenty... Read more...

Munich Linux setback

Fri, 16 Jan 2004 01:56:33 +0000

Last year, the city of Munich, Germany opted to go with Linux instead of Microsoft software on more than 14,000 desktop computers. This was seen as a significant setback for Microsoft and a clear sign... Read more...

Pop-up provider suffers legal setback

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 09:46:41 +0000

A company that delivers pop-up ads has been barred from targeting visitors to a particular site. A US district court judge recently barred WhenU from delivering pop-up advertisements to some Net visitors, going against decisions... Read more...

Hollywood suffers setback in ReplayTV replay

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:45:42 +0000

THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION persuaded a federal judge again yesterday it should be allowed to represent owners of ReplayTV which is taking legal action against 28 movie and TV firms. Five ReplayTV customers are taking... Read more...