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- Yahoo-Microsoft deal: Details from the SEC filing
- Yahoo on Tuesday revealed details of its search agreement with Microsoft in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including information about revenue sharing, technology licensing and implementation plans. Among the highlights: For the first five years of the 10-year-agreement, Yahoo will be...
- Tags: Revenue, SEC Filing, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Limited Patent Cross License, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
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- TomTom chooses a moderate limited hang out route
- TomTom chooses a moderate limited hang out routeM$ must pay for IPTomTom can not do a cross license with M$, unless M$ cover all Linux distros.We know that M$ patents are worthless, so M$ should pay now for the IP stolen from TomTom.TomTom must pay for IPMicrosoft can not do...
- Tags: Tom-Tom, TomTom, Microsoft Corp., patent
- Discussion threads 2009-03-20
- Vonage infringement settlements could unleash patent trolls
- Â Over the now-and admit it, so totally over Holiday weekend, Vonage settled patent disputes with AT&T and then Nortel. The agreement with AT&T was announced on December 21. Not much details, except to report that the arrangements were "definitive." Then on December 31, Vonage and Nortel...
- Tags: Patent, Nortel Networks Corp., Vonage Holdings Corp., Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Vonage Survives Patent Dispute, But Can it Run a Reliable Phone Service?
- Vonage has settled another patent dispute this time with Nortel, Reuters is reporting. The case involved a counter-claim filed by Nortel against Digital Packet Licensing, a company Vonage acquired two years later in 2006. The dispute centered on patents behind emergency and information call numbers in addition...
- Tags: Phone, Patent, Vonage Holdings Corp., Settlement, Litigation, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
- AlwaysOn Stanford Summit: lawyers for Google, IBM, and Apple ponder the patent system
- If you, like me, have been trying to get your arms around the state of U.S. patent system and the various reforms and changes it is confronting, you hopefully will enjoy my notes from the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit panel on "The Patent Crisis: Crossroads for the Business of Technology."...
- Tags: Patent, Conferences
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Patent law changes power ahead in Congress
- Patent law changes power ahead in CongressSenator Leahy: "promote and protect" patents.Quoting the quote in the article:"We have reaffirmed our commitment to ensuring that our nation's patent laws promote and protect the inventiveness of all of our industries..." Th e bill intends, of cource, to simplify and standardize the...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, patent holder, patent, patent troll, patent system, software patent
- Discussion threads 2007-07-20
- Survey says: Microsoft's patent might worries few, angers many more
- Survey says: Microsoft's patent might worries few, angers many moreGeez, DanaCouldn't you let it cool down for a bit? [1] As it is, the frothing-at-the-mouth set are going to be back demanding [u]your[/u] retirement and making nasty comments about [u]your[/u] mother instead of going all potty-mouthed on Mary...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, survey, Microsoft Corp., patent
- Discussion threads 2007-05-17
- Windows, Mac OS to run side-by-side
- Windows, Mac OS to run side-by-sideActually we use both Mac's and PC's where I workand we have already ordered a Mac Mini dual processor loaded it with memory and Parralells product as a test bed. After all you should understand while our machines are fine they are not state...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, operating system, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, PC, Apple Mac OS X
- Discussion threads 2006-06-15
- Could more Eolas-like open source benefactors hurt Microsoft, others?
- Could more Eolas-like open source benefactors hurt Microsoft, others?OIN and other patent poolsOpen Source has Patents also. There are already several pools of patents pledged to Open Source and Linux. OIN aquired some more patents about a week or so ago http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/press_release.php . OIN is just...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Open Source Movement, Eolas Technologies Inc., Red Hat Inc., patent, software, open source, software patent, OIN, Microsoft Corp., GPL, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-05-30
- Patent office to re-examine JPEG patent
- Patent office to re-examine JPEG patentThis is a difficult issue.There is no black and white, just shades of gray, with strong arguments possible for both original patent holders and companies that also make claims by way of prior art, etc. in products that actually exist. One thing that seems...
- Tags: patent, NTP, JPEG, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Discussion threads 2006-02-02
- HP: Don't like software patents? Learn to deal
- HP: Don't like software patents? Learn to dealTranslated...HP: "At the end of the day, software patents are a way of life. To ignore them is a little bit naive..."Here is a translation: "We will continue to stifle innovation, limit the market forces of competition, corrupt the system, and generally abuse...
- Tags: software, Goldtouch Technologies, Hewlett-Packard Co., OSS, software patent, patent, computer company
- Discussion threads 2005-02-15
- Patriot, Intel in patent squabble
- Patriot, Intel in patent squabblewow.. this sounds like...sounds a lot like a SCO tactic... possibly a friend of Darl Mcbride running this company.yeah.. the way Intel implemented somthing... they have patented... so take it up with intel, dont sue people that buy intels chipswhat a joke
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