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Patent Office Upholds I4i Patent in Microsoft Dispute
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office confirmed a patent held by i4i that has been at the heart of a dispute with Microsoft.

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Summary Box: HTC swipes back at Apple in patent dispute, targets iPhone and other devices
THE DISPUTE: Taiwanese cellphone maker HTC Corp. is filing a patent complaint against Apple Inc. over its popular gadgets. In March, Apple Inc. had filed its own patent lawsuits against HTC.

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Apple patent application depicts direct payment iPhone app
Apple is considering the possibility of direct payments via iPhone, according to recently published patent application documents. Under a proposed scheme, two essential components would be involved: a handheld equipped with a near-field communications receiver, and a dedicated iPhone app, here labeled “Transaction.” To send or receive money, a person would launch the app, bring the iPhone within …

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HTC swipes back at Apple in patent dispute, files complaint against the iPhone, iPad and iPod
SEATTLE – Taiwanese cellphone maker HTC Corp. is filing a patent complaint against Apple Inc. over its popular gadgets, escalating a legal dispute

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HTC swipes back at Apple in patent dispute
HTC swipes back at Apple in patent dispute, files complaint against the iPhone, iPad and iPod

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Wisconsin loses round in stem cell patent battle
Consumer groups challenging a key patent covering embryonic stem cell research pioneered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have won an appeal overturning an earlier rejection of their claims.

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Jury Rejects $10 Million Claim Against Greenberg Traurig Over Patent Loss
A New York jury on Thursday took two hours to reject a $10 million claim that Greenberg Traurig was responsible for the lapse of a patent for a medical device obtained by a group of surgeons at New York University Medical Center, according to an attorney representing the law firm.

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Novell, Red Hat Win Joint Patent Battle
Archrivals Novell and Red Hat teamed up to defend Linux against a patent challenge..and guess what? They won.

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First, we kill all the patent lawyers
Computerworld: “Actually, I don’t think we should kill all the patent lawyers. Some of my best friends are patent attorneys — no, really. But I’d happily stick a knife into the American patent system.”

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News: Apple awarded patent for iPhone 3G, 3GS design
Apple has been awarded a U.S. patent for the ornamental design of the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. Filed on June 5, 2008, patent number D615,083 lists both Apple CEO Steve Jobs and senior vice president of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive as inventors. Possible examples for the “electronic device” are listed as a “computer, a portable or hand-held electronic device, media player (e.g., music, video …

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Activision Publishing’s president and CEO resigns
Filed under: Biz , FPS , Multiplayer , Modern Warfare 2 The drama at Activision Blizzard continues to grow. First the publisher fired the co-founders of Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward last month. Then a lawsuit was filed by those same co-founders against the company. Then a mass exodus of Infinity Ward team members began. This week another lawsuit was filed against the publisher by …

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For women over 40 and beyond, style tips that won’t get old
For a person who made a career in fashion and publishing by telling people how to look and dress, Kim Johnson Gross had some reckoning to do when she turned 50.

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Quantum Key distribution: faster and more meh than ever
I know that I don’t have a reputation for publishing high impact fundamental physics papers, but all the same, sometimes I really pity graduate students who end up with some projects. A little while ago, Toshiba’s Cambridge laboratory reported the world’s fastest quantum key distribution. An important technological achievement, but when you read the paper, you can’t help feel for the poor sod …

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Press review
The Delimara power station contract once again dominated the headlines of almost all newspapers on Thursday. The Times reported Prime Minister stating that he has no difficulty in publishing the Delimara power station contract provided the Danish company BWSC accepted.

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Apple sours on Gizmodo
Nick Denton is feeling the long arm of Steve Jobs. The razor-tongued CEO of Gawker Media may sue California police, who last week raided the home of an editor at Gizmodo, the tech blog owned by Gawker that caused a stir by publishing pictures of Apple’s next-generation iPhone. Denton…

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