Acer countersues HP in PC patent row
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HP: You're a patent infringer. Acer: I know you are but what am I? A patent dispute between Acer and Hewlett-Packard just got a little more litigious as the Taiwan-based computer giant parries two lawsuits filed by HP with a counterclaim of its own.â¦
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3M filed suit this week in Minneapolis, Minn. against computer makers Sony and Lenovo, along with a handful of other firms, for allegedly infringing on its patents related to rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. The company also asked that imports of the batteries be blocked.
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A corporation is not the person the legal fiction makes it so much as a collection of different interests. I was reminded of this fact a couple of weeks ago when I went shopping for a laptop. Remembering that Hewlett-Packard almost singlehandedly solved the basic problem of laser printer support for GNU/Linux, I ended up buying one of the company's laptops. Consumer reports, price, and HP's listing as one of the greener hardware manufacturers according to Greenpeace also affected my decision, but my impression of HP as a free software friendly company was a large criteria.
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Hyperphrase case rumbles on Google has been hit by a setback in a patent row with Hyperphrase Technologies, LLC.â¦
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Second time in less than a month AMD has been accused of patent infringement for the second time in less than a month. Having found itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit from intellectual property holder Opti earlier this month, AMD was this week threatened by MicroUnity Systems Engineering.â¦
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On January 31, 2007, the Santa Clara Superior Court certified a consumer  lawsuit to proceed as a class action against Hewlett-Packard Company.  The lawsuit involves certain HP Pavilion models of notebook computers  that Plaintiff I Braun Degenshein alleges contain defective inverters.
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(InfoWorld) - LG ElectronicsÂ has filed a lawsuit against the world's largest contract manufacturer of laptop PCs over the infringement of four patents related to DVD (digital video disc) technology, the company said Wednesday. The South Korean electronics maker is seeking an injunction against Taiwan's Quanta Computer to put a stop to its use of the technology, as well as cash compensation. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin on July 3, LG said. LG alleged that Quanta has been using the infringing technology to produce laptop PCs that have been supplied to U.S. computer vendors. Quanta counts Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and a number of other PC vendors among its customers. The two companies have another outstanding lawsuit in the U.S. on which LG expects a decision in the first half of 2008. LG sued Quanta in the U.S. District Court of Northern California in 2000 over the alleged infringement of PC-related patents. Originally, the trial court decided in favor of Quanta, but the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned the verdict. LG said it expects the ruling in this case to be in its favor. Quanta declined to immediately comment on the lawsuit. LG holds 5,000 international patents on DVD technologies, it said.
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The effort to dominate their way into a de facto standard isn't sitting well with rivals HP and Dell.
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Allegations by Google that Microsoft's new operating system unfairly disadvantages competitors has revived antitrust accusations against Microsoft and opened a front in a bitter war between the two technology giants.
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InfoWorld - Google&#39;s claims that&#160;Microsoft&#39;s built-in Vista desktop indexing and search tool violates its antitrust agreement&#160;could be difficult to prove even if the software does slow down the performance of Google&#39;s competitive Google Desktop offering.
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Toshiba has filed patent infringement lawsuits in Japan and the US against South Korea&#39;s Hynix Semiconductor. The suits allege that Hynix violated Toshiba&#39;s patents covering NAND-type flash memory chips.
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Microsoft Corp. is fighting a rejection by U.S. patent authorities of a patent for its FAT (file allocation table) file system, the company said Thursday. Meanwhile, it's celebrating a jury decision clearing it of patent infringement charges related to a feature in its Office software.
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The tech company is bruised during a fight over intellectual property rights in Korea.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Though a Friday patent lawsuit verdict against Sun Microsystems Inc. could potentially have a wide-ranging impact on the computer industry, the ruling appears unlikely to affect three of the world's largest IT companies, who have licensed the technology in question. Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are licensees of the software patents in question, the patents' owner, Eastman Kodak Co., confirmed Monday.
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PC vendor Acer sees strong first-quarter PC sales on Vista, CPU war.
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Import injunction sought while patent violation case pends
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Lenovo Group, the world's third- largest personal computer maker, sued rival Clevo Computer, claiming the Taiwanese company infringed on two patents for PC functions and owed millions of dollars in licensing royalties.  The lawsuit was filed March 2 in federal court in New York.