Sony revealed as buyer of Ipix patents
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Electronics giant anonymously won Ipix's patents on digital imaging technology for $3.6 million at bankruptcy auction.
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Samsung Electronics Co. and Sony Corp. have signed a licensing agreement to share 24,000 basic standard patents necessary for product development, Samsung officials said yesterday.
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Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N on  Wednesday said it agreed to buy Guidant Corp. GDT.N, for  $25.4 billion in cash and stock, giving the healthcare products  maker a foothold in the fast-growing market for implantable  devices that regulate heartbeats.
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FTC commissioners have approved a prospective settlement with Sony in the wake of the music company's problematic copy-protection attempts, which included rootkits and phone-home software. Now it's the public's turn to comment on the arrangement.
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PQ Corp., the specialty chemicals business, said on Friday it was being sold to private equity buyout firm Carlyle Group  for $1.5 billion.
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Sony said it would sell a device to let users record live television that can be stored on the game console or transferred to the PlayStation Portable for later viewing.
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Sony disclosed more information about its joint venture in the UK and Ireland with British Sky Broadcasting to bring video downloads to its popular handheld system, as well as a DVR device to bring television programming to the PS3 and PSP.
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Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday they had agreed to share patents on basic technology to speed up product development and avoid adding to a growing number of cross-border patent disputes.
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The acquisition by Microsoft and Time Warner of a company with a significant portfolio of patents covering digital rights management technologies generates scrutiny by European antitrust regulators. The main focus of the investigation: Microsoft. By Wendy M. Grossman.
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Designed to undermine the MPEG LA patent pool DRM intellectual property business Intertrust has issued a license price for its patent portfolio that is designed to totally undermine the existing MPEG LA patent pool for the Open Mobile Alliance DRM 2.0 system, although itâs being very careful not to say that out loud.â¦
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Sony and NXP Semiconductors have reached basic agreement on forming a joint venture to develop, manufacture and sell chips that combine Sony's Felica and Philips' Mifare contactless smartcard platforms. NXP wasÂ spun off from PhilipsÂ in Sept. this year.
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Sony and Samsung have entered into a far-reaching technology licensing agreement that opens stacks of each company&#39;s intellectual properties to the other.
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Sony and Ampex have agreed to end their dispute over a patent covering thumbnail images in digital image storage and retrieval devices.
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Sony Communication Network Corp. 3789.T   said on Friday it would buy a 27 percent stake in Gamepot Inc.   3792.SP, an operator of a popular online golf game, for 2.6   billion yen ($22 million), as Sony Corp.'s 6758.T Internet   unit strives to beef up its online game operations.
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ARM Holdings Plc, whose chip designs are used in iPod digital music players, agreed to buy Artisan Components Inc. for about $913 million.
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Sony Corp  said on Wednesday it will sell its microchip production facilities in western Japan to Toshiba Corp  for 90 billion yen ($835 million), in their latest move to focus on their core businesses.
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Sony Corp said Thursday that it had agreed to sell its production lines for the powerful computer chip at the heart of its struggling PlayStation 3 game console to rival Toshiba Corp.