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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It is with regret that I urge all FOSS developers to treat anything Novell has contributed to the community as suspect, scrutinize any Novell contributions and purge them as deemed appropriate.  This threat is real, and it is not necessarily contingent upon whether or not Microsoft would actually sue customers for patent infringements.  This is a classic case of posturing.  Novell is leveraging its agreement with Microsoft in a way that harms all other Linux distributions and other FOSS projects. It is actively exploiting its unique position in ways that seem beneficial, but will pose risks to anyone but its own customers (and even their own customers are only protected for the next five years).
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Google responded on Friday to a lawsuit filed against it by Northeastern University, denying claims that its search service infringes on patented technology.Google denied all charges in the suit, which was&#160;filed jointly by Northeastern, of Boston, and a search technology company called Jarg, of Waltham, Mass. Google also filed a counterclaim asking the court to dismiss the patent as invalid.The&#160;suit was filed in November&#160;in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. It seeks an injunction preventing Google from further infringement, as well as royalty payments and damages.The patent in question describes a distributed database system that breaks queries into fragments and distributes them to multiple computers in a network to get faster search results.The plaintiffs say that Google uses this system to run its search engine, and that the system was invented by Kenneth Baclawski, an associate professor at Northeastern and one of Jarg&#39;s founders. Northeastern was awarded a patent for the system, which it has licensed exclusively to Jarg.In its response Friday, Google argued that the patent is invalid and should not have been awarded in the first place. It cites various sections of U.S. patent law, including those that deal with the novelty of an invention and prior art. It also cites the doctrine of &quot;laches,&quot; which essentially requires plaintiffs to file lawsuits in a timely manner.Its counterclaim asks the court to declare the patent invalid and unenforceable.Both parties have requested a jury trial, and legal experts have said the case could be resolved in 18 months to two years.The U.S. patent, number 5,694,593, is dated Dec. 2, 1997, and can be viewed by searching the Web site of the U.S. Patent &amp; Trademark Office. U.S. patent law is also described on the USPTO Web site in this PDF file. Google&#39;s reply cites sections 101, 102, 103, and 112.
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Security flaw involving JPEG files affects at least a dozen Microsoft software applications and operating systems.
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The DataTreasury Corporation has sued companies that it says have infringed on its two patents, which describe a way to store and retrieve transaction records electronically.
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Ziff Davis - The Public Patent Foundation and others have serious questions about what Sun's new open-source patent policies will actually mean for developers.
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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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p2pnet.net News:- IBM mainframe software vendor Compuware is suing IBM for antitrust violations claiming IBM used its source code without permission.
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On Wednesday, Network Appliance threw down the gauntlet. NetApp filed suit against Sun Microsystems, claiming that Sun&#39;s storage software in Solaris violates seven NetApp patents. In addition, NetApp is seeking a declaration that it is not infringing on three of Sun&#39;s patents -- and that the patents in question are invalid.
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Sun on Thursday announced that it settled the lawsuit Eastman Kodak had brought against it, but the charge that Sunâs Java violated software patents held by Kodak brought to light the major impact patents can have on software techniques.
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TIM FIRM Sun has released details of a critical bug in both its Solaris operating system and the Java Desktop System. Affected systems are Solaris 7, 8 and 9 on both the Sparc and x86 platforms, and the JDS
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Microsoft Corp. has filed 20 lawsuits in nine states against resellers accused of distributing unauthorized copies of its software.
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SAN JOSE, Calif.--When Sun Microsystems releases Solaris as open-source software, it plans to provide legal protection from patent-infringement suits to outsiders using or developing the operating system--one of several ways Sun hopes to make Solaris more
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- Security software maker Symantec Corp.   said it sued a large network of distributors selling  counterfeit Symantec software, and sought over $15 million in  damages.
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Whose Ball Grid Array is it anyway? Nvidia has been accused of patent infringement. Minneapolis-based Scanner Technologies claims it owns techniques that the GPU maker uses in the manufacture of ball grid array (BGA) chip-pin layouts without its permission. It said the alleged infringement was "willful and deliberate".â¦
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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.