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More than 1,000 individuals and groups have signed a letter urging the U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to open its meetings next month on global patent and copyright policy to more government outsiders. The forums to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, are expected to set the tone...
Just days after the hugely successful North America release of its PlayStation Portable (PSP), Sony was dealt a blow by a U.S. federal court, which ordered the company to stop selling PlayStations and to pay US$90.7 million to Immersion Corp. in a patent infringement suit. Immersion filed suit in 20...
With powerful forces pulling for both sides, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider this week a matter that brings to a head the debate on how to govern today's converging telecommunications and information services. The high court this week begins hearing arguments in the case -- a dispute betwe...
Hewlett-Packard is being accused of incorrectly classifying workers as contractors in two lawsuits recently filed in U.S. District Court. The suits highlight a growing issue for technology employers, which sometimes seek to cut costs by classifying even long-term employees as contract workers. In HP...
Internet search and content giant Google, known as one of the top aggregators of news and other information online, has been sued by Agence France Press (AFP) for allegedly publishing copyrighted content without permission. The French media publisher -- which is seeking more than US$17 million in da...
RIM announced today that it has settled a years-long patent fight by agreeing to pay $450 million to NTP, a U.S. patent-holding company. In exchange, RIM will be allowed to continue operating its BlackBerry wireless business. NTP sued RIM, a Canadian company, for infringing on 16 patents for radio f...
While Internet piracy and copyright infringement are usually thought of as federal crimes, one University of Arizona student found that that is not always the case. Parvin Dhaliwal, 18, pleaded guilty last month in Maricopa County, Arizona, to possession of counterfeit marks, or unauthorized copies ...
Symantec announced earlier this week that it has been granted a new patent for antivirus technology by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent is for a system that enables detection of complex viruses, worms and spyware. The technology, "data driven detection of viruses," is employ...
Microsoft has won an important victory in its patent dispute with Eolas and the University of California, which claim the software giant is profiting from a patented browser technology. While a lower court had found that Microsoft infringed on the patent and upheld a jury penalty of US$521 million, ...
In an attempt to cut down on the exponential growth of phishing scams, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, introduced a bill yesterday that defines the penalties for perpetrators. The Anti-Phishing Act of 2005 calls for fines of up to US$250,000 and jail terms of up to five years for people convicted of ...
Supporters of file-sharing programs Grokster and StreamCast scourged the entertainment industry yesterday following the filing of briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that could be Armageddon for the peer-to-peer software industry. The High Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the di...
The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is trying to persuade the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that P2P companies aren't responsible for what users do with P2P technologies. Meanwhile, the movie industry trade group is suing more people it says are illegally distributing f...
A Georgia woman has filed a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard over the company's use of chips to disable printer ink cartridges after a certain date. The suit, filed in Santa Clara (California) Superior Court, seeks class-action status on behalf of anyone who has purchased an inkjet printer with smart...
Caution: Click-through agreements may be hazardous to your rights of privacy and free speech. Those are the sentiments expressed in a white paper released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) as part of a campaign to raise consumer awareness of some of the dangerous terms found in End User Li...
The advent of a new technology often requires building a whole new set of rules to govern its use. Occasionally, the technology's use easily falls under a set of rules already in place. Either way, there is often a gap between the widespread use of the technology and the cementing of policies and pr...
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