Accenture files patent suit against Guidewire
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Accenture Ltd  said on Tuesday  it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Guidewire  Software Inc over an insurance claims management technology.
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A U.S. district court has dismissed an   antitrust suit filed by microchip maker Broadcom Corp. BRCM.O   against Qualcomm Inc. QCOM.O, but Broadcom said it would   continue to pursue the case.
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VirnetX is seeking damages and an injunction against the Redmond, Wash., software giant.
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SanDisk&#160;is suing 25 companies, including South Korean giant LG Electronics for allegedly infringing patents used in removable flash storage products including MP3 players and USB flash drives.The Milpitas, California, chip maker has also filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), asking to have defendants in the court cases barred from importing products into the U.S.The company filed two lawsuits in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin, one alleging the infringement of five patents in the ITC complaint, and another one including two additional patents not involved in the ITC action.The court and ITC complaints could affect the prices and availability of products made by companies targeted in the suit if SanDisk wins and the companies are barred from importing products into the U.S.The suit also covers makers of CompactFlash cards, multimedia cards, and other removable flash storage products used in digital cameras, mobile phones, and other gadgets, and includes companies from around the world, such as Japan&#39;s Buffalo, Acer affiliate Apacer Technology&#160;of Taiwan, and Kingston Technology&#160;of California.
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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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The state of Connecticut is suing Accenture for not encrypting data on a backup tape that was stolen from the car of a state intern in Ohio. The tape contained sensitive data about hundreds of state bank accounts and purchasing cards.
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EchoStar Communications Corp  infringed a TiVo Inc patent in building digital video recorders  and must pay nearly $74 million in damages, a court that  specializes in patent cases ruled on Thursday.
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USA Video Technology Corp., a small  technology firm that holds patents for the digital delivery of  media, said on Thursday it has filed a suit against top U.S.  cable operators over their video-on-demand services.
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Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N has sued   Boston Scientific BSX.N and Abbott Laboratories Inc. ABT.N,   seeking at least $5.5 billion in damages related to J&J's   failed bid to acquire medical device maker Guidant Corp.
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Eight months after Boston Scientific Corp. won a bidding war for heart-device maker Guidant Corp. , loser Johnson &amp; Johnson hit it with a $5.5 billion lawsuit that alleges the Natick company improperly induced Guidant to violate the terms of its acquisition deal with Johnson &amp; Johnson.
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Less than patently obvious England's Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that two software-related patents were invalid. Oil giant Halliburton's attempts to patent in the UK a software system for designing drill bits has failed.â¦
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The Swedish engineering group Sandvik has signed a 10-year agreement to outsource portions of its human resources (HR) services to Accenture (NYSE: ACN). The outsourcing contract is part of a wider initiative ...
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 18  /PRNewswire/ -- SiRF Technology, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. , a leading provider of GPS-enabled location technology, announced today that it has filed a patent infringement complaint against Global Locate and its U.S.
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Last week OPTi announced a patent infringement lawsuit against a bevy of chip companies. At issue are two patents for "Compact ISA-Bus" technology. Check out this and other original content from CNET's Blog network.
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Cordis Corp, a unit of Johnson & Johnson , won the latest round on Monday in a patent fight with Medtronic Inc  and Boston Scientific Corp  over who owns lucrative patents for heart stents.
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Taiwan's Acer Inc. said Friday it has filed a counterclaim in a U.S. court against a patent infringement lawsuit by Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Pink Sheets:VTSS) today announced it  has filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles  against auditing firm KPMG, LLP alleging KPMG failed to properly provide  auditing and other services to Vitesse during the time period 1994 to  2000.