Sun countersuit: NetApp violates 12 patents
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Sun Microsystems fires back against NetApp's patent infringement lawsuit involving the ZFS file system software.
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Nortel alleges that Vonage infringes on 12 of its patents that broadly deal with click-to-call systems, with the management or architecture of VoIP system resources and with call-tracing methods in packet-switched networks.
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In an op-ed piece published by BusinessWeek today, Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin stated his organization will be ready to fund the legal efforts of anyone who produces Linux software who's threatened with - or sued on account of - patent infringement. If necessary, Zemlin writes, the foundation will use its own patent portfolio to mount countersuits.
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Plans to provide umbrella from patent-infringement suits to outsiders using or developing the OS--a move to counter Linux.
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Legal dispute over storage patent is about to get going in earnest, part of a wider skirmish over security software turf.
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Kodak&#39;s claim that Sun&#39;s use of Java violates three patents it holds could cast a cloud over Java&#39;s future direction. By Charles Babcock.
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A lawsuit filed this week claims that Google, Yahoo, AOL, Amazon.com, Borders and IAC/InteractiveCorp violated a patent for an automatic message routing system held by Polaris IP.
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A patent-infringementÂ lawsuitÂ filed by Network Appliance against Sun Microsystems on Wednesday could escalate beyond the storage arena to become this decade's major test case for open-source software, according to storage analysts.
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Toshiba is taking action to protect its patents. The Japan-based company has accused Hynix Semiconductor of violating seven patents in the United States, including ones for DRAM, and three flash-memory patents in Japan.
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Lawsuits galore Microsoft today revealed lawsuits in nine US states against 20 resellers accused of selling counterfeit software or engaging in hard-disk loading. .â¦
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The countersuit comes after an October IBM lawsuit accusing Amazon of infringing on IBM patents.
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InfoWorld - Sun on Thursday announced that it settled the lawsuit Eastman Kodak had brought against it, but the charge that Sun&#8217;s Java violated software patents held by Kodak brought to light the major impact patents can have on software techniques.
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How significant is the US Patent and Trademark Office&#39;s initial rejection of Microsoft&#39;s FAT (file allocation table) file system patent claims?
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Vulnerabilities in the Sun Java Runtime Environment are described by one security expert as being "as bad as it gets."
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TechWeb - NetApp, which blames Sun for starting the intellectual property dispute, tries to distance itself from SCO&#39;s long-running, controversial lawsuit.
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Sun Microsystems faces another intellectual property lawsuit as Netbula files suit for copyright infringement and fraud related to the use of certain core technology. The problem apparently stems from arrangements made before Sun's 2005 purchase of StorageTek.
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Unless you use it to sue Computer giant IBM is handing over a portfolio of intellectual property to any other developers that want to use it in the name of furthering interoperability and open standards.â¦