Research In Motion reports court win against European licence-fee claimant
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WATERLOO, Ont. (CP) - Research In Motion Ltd. has reported a court victory in a patent-infringement case brought by European licensing company.
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A lot more than bubbles at stake A long-running dispute between mobile phone networks O2 and 3 has been referred to the European Court of Justice for clarification. The dispute centres on a series of 3 adverts which O2 says infringed its trade marks.â¦
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Split decision possible The European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg will rule on Monday whether the guilty verdict against Microsoft should be overturned.â¦
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Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. A probe concluded in 2004 that Microsoft was guilty of freezing out rivals in server software and products such as media players.
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An EU court is to issue its initial verdict this morning in a high-profile competition case pitting US software giant Microsoft against the EU Commission.
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A European Union court has upheld penalties imposed by the EU executive on Microsoft, dismissing the software giant&#39;s appeal for a suspension, according to a document obtained by Reuters.
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update A federal appeals court affirmed that Research In Motion has infringed on holding company NTP&#39;s patents but can continue selling its products in the United States pending a district court&#39;s decision.
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Arguments were heard today in a case whose outcome could require software companies to pay fines for patent-infringing software assembled in other countries.
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A United States appeals court upheld a finding of patent infringement against Research In Motion Ltd. yesterday, but struck down part of the ruling and sent it back to a lower court for further proceedings.
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An Indian doctor briefly accused of links to a UK terror attack wins a court battle to regain his Australian work visa.
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A jury in federal court in Tennessee has ordered Medtronic Inc. to pay at least $109 million to an inventor in a dispute over rights to spinal fusion technology.
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A federal appeals court ruled that antitrust claims brought by the chip maker Broadcom against Qualcomm, over the latterâs licensing practices can go forward.
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A US appeal court has delivered a mixed ruling in a patent dispute between Research in Motion (RIM) and NTP. It upholding a decision that RIM had infringed on patents held by NTP, but cancelled an injunction
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Britain has scored a legal victory over Spain regarding the voting rights of residents of the disputed territory of Gibraltar, The European Court of Justice has announced.
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(InfoWorld) - Europe's second highest court threw out an appeal by France TÃ©lÃ©comÂ of the European Commission's 2003 antitrust ruling against the firm on Tuesday, ordering it to pay the â¬10.35 million ($12.97 million) fine. The Commission found Wanadoo, France TÃ©lÃ©com's Internet subsidiary, guilty of effectively shutting out competitors from the lucrative high-speed Internet market by setting its prices artificially low. France TÃ©lÃ©com appealed the decision claiming it wasn't a dominant player at the time. Under E.U. law, predatory pricing, when a firm deliberately makes a loss in order to deter others from entering the market, is only illegal when carried out by dominant firms. Tuesday's ruling strengthens the Commission's hand in dealing with other competition abuses in the telecom market. "The Commission is delighted with this ruling," said Jonathan Todd, the regulator's spokesman on competition issues. Since the 2003 antitrust ruling, the French market for ADSLÂ has grown enormously. "The French market has become one of the most competitive in Europe, thanks to the European Commission," Todd said. The Commission began investigating Wanadoo in July 1999 during an inquiry within the E.U. into the provision of local loop access services and use of the residential local loop. Fourteen months later, the regulator opened a formal probe into the French company, examining the prices Wanadoo charged its residential customers in France for high-speed Internet access. The Commission found that the predatory prices charged by Wanadoo for its eXtense and Wanadoo ADSL services did not enable it to cover its variable costs until August 2001 or to cover its full costs between then and October 2002 as part of a plan to preempt the market in high-speed Internet access during a key phase in its development. The Commission concluded thatÂ this conduct constituted an abuse of its dominant position in the French market for residential high-speed Internet access. The court found that Wanadoo had eight times the number of ADSL subscribers than its closest competitor during the period in question. That and its link with France TÃ©lÃ©com, the incumbent telecommunications operator in France, "conferred on it advantages over its competitors," the court said. France TÃ©lÃ©com said it retains its right to appeal to the European Court of Justice, the Union's top court, but no decision to appeal had been made on Tuesday.
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A European Union court on Wednesday  confirmed it had upheld curbs imposed by the EU's executive on  Microsoft, dismissing the software giant's appeal for a  suspension.
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(InfoWorld) - Six months afterÂ U.S. regulators capped royalties that vendors must pay to Rambus, the European Union (EU) is taking a close look at the company's monopoly on the DRAM (dynamic RAM) chip market. On July 30, the European Commission (EC) issued a preliminary "Statement of Objections" finding that the Los Altos, Calif., company violated EU competition law by not disclosing that it owned relevant patents during the development of the DRAM standard. DRAM chips provide the memory in computers. The existence of this Statement of Objections was disclosed Thursday in a Commission press release. "Rambus engaged in intentional deceptive conduct in the context of the standard-setting process, for example by not disclosing the existence of the patents which it later claimed were relevant to the adopted standard," the statement said. "This type of behavior is known as a 'patent ambush.'" Against this background, the Commission provisionally considers that Rambus breached the EC Treaty's rules on abuse of a dominant market position." "Without its 'patent ambush,' Rambus would not have been able to charge the royalty rates it currently does," the statement said. Rambus now has nine weeks to respond before the Commission will decide whether or not the company is in violation of European law. Earlier this year, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ordered Rambus to license its DRAM technology to other vendors and put a cap on the royalties it can charge. Rambus's patent claims have also been the subject of numerous lawsuits between Rambus and chip makers who reject the company's patent claims. "These are largely the same issues examined by a number of US courts, the Federal Trade Commission, and currently before the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit," said Thomas Lavelle, Rambus's senior vice president and general counsel, in a statement. "We are studying the Statement of Objections and plan to respond in due course."