« WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firms of Sianni & Straite LLP of Wilmington, DE, Eichen Crutchlow Zaslow & McElroy LLP of Edison, NJ, and Keefe Bartels L.L.C. of Red Bank, NJ, have today filed a class action complaint in Federal Court in Wilmington, Delaware related to the unprecedented breach of the digital privacy rights of 150 million cell phone users.
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Software patents: foolish business
http://www.guardian.co.uk –
Academic research by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society has found that software patents have provided no net benefit to the software industry, let alone to society as a whole.
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HTC Willfully Violates the GPL in T-Mobile's New G2 Android Phone
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com –
"HTC will normally publish this within 90 to 120 days. This time frame is within the requirements of the open source community."
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A Bird's Eye View of the HTC/Nokia/Apple Patent Litigations
http://www.groklaw.net –
I don't know about you, but I've found it hard to follow the various patent lawsuits involving Apple, Nokia and HTC. First there are so many cases filed all over the place, it's hard to understand the big picture. And I kept asking myself what it was all about. I mean, what's it all about really?
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HTC, Greens, and EFF Go After Apple
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A look at HTC's counterclaim, filed after Apple sued Linux via HTC/Android; Apple refuses to have its phones tested for environmental impact; EFF goes hard on Apple for what it calls "traitorware" (iOS)
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Microsoft says Android infringes its patents - HTC pays up.
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Microsoft believes that elements from both the user interface and the underlying operating system are in violation of its rights.
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Is the Microsoft-HTC patent deal more about Linux or Apple?
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Does the Microsoft-HTC patent agreement mean we can expect to see Microsoft weigh in on the Apple vs. HTC patent infringement matter? Or is the Microsoft-HTC deal just one more example (with more mobile-phone makers possibly to come) of Linux companies attempting to head off potential Microsoft lawsuits involving Linux?
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Why Mobile Patents are Such a Mess
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Everybody's suing everybody! ... None of the major companies really seem to take patents seriously. ... And why should they take patents serious? The United States Patent and Trademark Office grants patents for vague ideas, obvious processes and usage models and even the most mundane software user interface conventions.
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Virtualization: An easy way to kill Apple's HTC lawsuit
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Intel's Wind River Hypervisor and technologies like it could usher in a new age of Device-agnostic Smartphone Operating Systems and unprecedented customer choice
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