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Law360, New York (April 24, 2009) — Seven major technology companies — Including Microsoft Corp. and Netgear Inc. — have settled long-running disputes with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia’s national science research agency, over its wireless local area network patent. Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District […]

An attorney for four Virginia high school students is appealing a federal judge’s ruling that iParadigms LLC of Oakland did not violate copyright laws when it used their work in its Turnitin database, which is used by teachers and professors to check for plagiarism. Robert Vanderhye, the lawyer who sued […]

Government and university research institutions are major players in the patent world, parlaying their inventions into big money in the form of licensing revenue and royalties while doing work they tout as being in the public interest. But their ability to collect large sums for their inventions may be in […]

They say they’re being held captive by patent holding companies – sometimes called patent trolls – who acquire patents on small parts of technologies for the purposes of filing lawsuits and extracting settlements. The emergence of these small players on the IT market over the last decade has changed the […]

UPDATED: Leading Internet and media companies teamed up today to set ground rules for dealing with copyright infringement in videos uploaded to user-generated content Web sites — and demanding stronger efforts on the part of content hosts. Those companies — which Include CBS Corp., Microsoft Corp., NBC Universal, News Corp.’s […]