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IP firm sued, settled with Novell on different patent in August

The IP firm that filed patent litigation against Red Hat and Novell mounted legal threats against many other U.S. software companies in 2007 including Oracle, SAP, Computer Associates, EMC, Adobe, Autodesk, Apple, SPSS -- and Novell. That’s right. In late August, the Newport Beach, Calif....

Tags: Novell Inc., Patent, IP, Acacia Technology Licensing, Network Technology, Networking, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-10-18

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Acacia denies patent claim is an attack on open source, denies any Microsoft role

Acacia Research Corp. on Friday released a statement to ZDNet's Open source Blog writers regarding the patent infringement case it filed against Red Hat and Novell on October 9. In the statement, which appears below in its entirety, Acacia insists that its patent claim is not...

Tags: Novell Inc., Patent, Red Hat Inc., IP, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Acacia, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-10-19

Did Microsoft send in the trolls?

Our own Stephen Shankland at C|Net has seen the other shoe drop on Steve Ballmer's patent threat.  (Found this cute guy at Funkydung.com.) Two patent trolls, Technology Licensing Corp. of Nevada and IP Innovation, a unit of Acacia Technologies, have filed suit against Novell and Red Hat for...

Tags: Acacia Technologies Group, Patent, Microsoft Corp., TLC, Leadership, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-13

Linux patent suit: In search of the Microsoft smoking gun

Now that the "first ever" suit for patent infringement has been lodged against two major Linux distributors, many Microsoft watchers are looking for the smoking gun that will somehow connect Microsoft to the case. I have to say that it's hard to believe that Microsoft CEO Steve...

Tags: Novell Inc., Patent, Microsoft Corp., Brunell, Intellectual Property, Linux, Open Source, Research & Development, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-10-12

Have patent, will sue

Have patent, will sueDidn't address the concernsThese people are arguing over "What constitutes a patent?". Characterizing anyone that has different ideas on the subject as abusers of the system is disingenuous. You would think that his company would be neutral on patents - any definition of a patent would still...

Tags: patent

Discussion threads 2006-07-10

Microsoft braces for crucial TV test

Microsoft braces for crucial TV testMicrosoft can't play in this market.Way to many things stopping them from doing much of anything in this market.First, broadband in the US simply can NOT deal with interactive or on demand video. Until everyone has 50 - 100 Meg per second connections in...

Tags: Video on demand (VoD), TV & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital media, Corporate communications, TV, VoD, video, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-11-05