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Newegg defeats patent troll who claims it invented the shopping cart

Newegg defeats patent troll who claims it invented the shopping cart
  • Posted January 28, 2013, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Presenting CompuServe's ancient online "mall" as an example of Precambian prior art, Newegg successfully defeated Soverain Software's supposed patent claim to what is essentially the modern day shopping cart. If Soverain had won the verdict, there's a good chance nearly…

"Cam" movie pirate issued record 5-year prison sentence

"Cam" movie pirate issued record 5-year prison sentence
  • Posted January 4, 2013, 2:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • Four members of prolific illegal file sharing group iMAGiNE have been ordered to serve prison terms after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. The group's leader Jeramiah Perkins, 40, managed to receive the longest sentence ever handed to a…

Weekend tech reading: Inconsistencies in Apple v. Samsung ruling

Weekend tech reading: Inconsistencies in Apple v. Samsung ruling
  • Posted August 26, 2012, 1:16 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
  • Late in the process yesterday at the Apple v. Samsung trial, when the parties and the judge were reviewing the jury verdict form, Samsung noticed that there were, indeed, inconsistencies in the jury's verdict form, a possibility Samsung anticipated. In two instances, results were crazily contradictory...

Judge rules IP addresses aren't enough to incriminate pirates

Judge rules IP addresses aren
  • Posted May 4, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • Judge Gary Brown, a federally-appointed magistrate judge of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York, recently ruled that an IP address is no more able to identify wrong-doers than a telephone number can be used to…

Judge rules defendant may be forced to decrypt her laptop

Judge rules defendant may be forced to decrypt her laptop
  • Posted January 25, 2012, 7:30 AM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • Judge Robert Blackburn made a ruling (PDF) this week which may change the way encryption is handled in future court cases. Although the defendant invoked 5th amendment rights as many others in prior, similar cases have, Judge Blackburn does not believe…

HTC loses to Apple, several Android phones banned in the U.S.

HTC loses to Apple, several Android phones banned in the U.S.
  • Posted December 21, 2011, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Industry News
  • The U.S. International Trade Commission finally issued its decision on a patent dispute between Apple and HTC. The determination states that several of the manufacturer's Android-based handsets will be banned from sale and import in the United States on April…

Judge OKs private domain seizures, orders search engine filtering

Judge OKs private domain seizures, orders search engine filtering
  • Posted November 30, 2011, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • Chanel, a luxury goods company, has gone after roughly 700 websites thought to be selling counterfeit, Chanel-branded goods. As a result, a federal judge in Nevada has given the company authority to seize domains and has ordered search engines and…

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