| 6 Software - Legal Resources |
| Arizona company drops iCloud suit, changes name |
| An Arizona company that sued Apple over its use of the iCloud name seems to have changed its tune--and its name. |
| September 7, 2011 |
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| Barnes & Noble wants DOJ probe into Microsoft patent tactics |
| Barnes & Noble is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Microsoft's patent-licensing tactics, accusing the software giant of trying to thwart competition with flimsy infringement claims. |
| November 8, 2011 |
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| Judge Rejects Oracle's $1.3B Award in SAP Lawsuit |
| A federal judge issued a surprising ruling on Thursday in a copyright-infringement lawsuit brought by Oracle Corp. against SAP AG. |
| September 1, 2011 |
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| Oracle v. Google trial date pushed off to 2012 |
| Although the two were supposed to kick off their anticipated trial on Halloween, Oracle and Google will have to wait for proceedings to really begin until 2012. |
| October 26, 2011 |
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| Symantec accused of malware scare tactics to sell its security software |
| Today's irony cup overfloweth: A Californian man has filed a lawsuit against Symantec, claiming that its software uses scare tactics to scam consumers out of money -- the exact same tactics that fake antivirus malware uses to scam unwitting computer users out of millions of dollars every year. |
| January 12, 2012 |
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| U.S. takes bite out of Oracle's Google lawsuit |
| Late last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected several of the claims in a patent that Oracle has cited in its infringement case against the search giant. According to Groklaw, which obtained the notice, 17 of the 21 claims in Patent No. 6,192,476 have been rejected by the USPTO, following a re-examination the agency conducted earlier this year. |
| December 27, 2011 |