MIT sues architect for crap computing-dept campus
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Boffins sick of krazy-klown Picasso themepark Frank Gehry, a member of the artistic school perhaps best described as Architects Renowned for their Startling Edifices, is being sued by MIT. A $300m building he designed for the famous technical university is allegedly faulty.â¦
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SEATTLE  - Two dozen designers, engineers and strategists toil in an unusual research lab on the Microsoft campus. Awkwardly dubbed the Mobile and Embedded Devices Experience design center, or MEDX, it is where Microsoft plots strategies to sell souped-up cellphones that act a lot like PCs.
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Software company asks appeals court to cancel patent infringement judgment.
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Computer software should not be protected by copyright laws designed for music, literature and other creative works, according to a lawsuit filed in a U.S. court in San Francisco.
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A Seattle-based developer of construction software sued Microsoft in U.S. District Court in Seattle Friday, claiming the Redmond company's use of the 'Forefront' brand would confuse the company's customers.
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By Thilmany, Jean  COMPUTERS ARE LAZY. They work only when they have to and almost all of them spend most of their time loafing.  The hardware at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., however, has developed a hard-work ethic.
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Apple Computer has filed suit against three individuals it alleges posted illegal test versions of its next version of Mac OS X, code-named &quot;Tiger,&quot; it was reported Tuesday.
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Patrick Angle, was charged with intentionally deleting the source code for software he had been developing for Massachusetts-based Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates.
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Seeking to sell chip designs to Chinese military A US federal grand jury has charged two computer engineers with stealing microchip designs to sell to the Chinese military.â¦
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Patriot Scientific and TPL Group, co-holders of the Moore Microprocessor Patent Portfolio [MMPP], announced today that they have settled their suit for patent infringement with JVC, NEC Electronics, Panasonic, and Toshiba.The suit revolved around clocking technology used in most microprocessors since 1994 and attributed to Chuck Moore.The details of the settlement were not revealed, but the patent holders said the settlement includes the licensing of the technology to the defendants [above].After some initial wrangling between Patriot Scientific and TPL back in 2005, both companies joined forces to file suit against microprocessor companies using the technology. The list of companies using MMPP includes every major chip manufacturer in high tech and in consumer electronics."Patriot bought the IP and started looking at everybody?s chips and discovered, lo and behold, almost everybody is using this particular technology," said Nathan Brookwood, principal at Insight 64.Patriot is what is known in the industry as a patent troll, added Brookwood, mainly because it did not create the patent but rather bought the patent and then went out, trolling, to discover who might be in violation of it.Previously, Patriot and TLP settled with AMD, Intel, and Fujitsu among others.Few companies, if any, remain to settle with Patriot and TPL.In a far more significant suit among microprocessor giants, plaintiff AMD's suit for anti-competitive business practices against Intel is currently in the discovery stage with an agreed-upon trial date set for April, 2009.In discovery, the defendant must produce any and all information, including electronically created documents, such as emails, that the court considers relevant to the case.According to a news story in InfoWorld on March 12, 2007 Intel admitted that some "internal e-mails that may be important to the case were missing as a result of errors."Recent court rulings have not looked favorably on companies that cannot produce relevant e-mails.In Zubulake v. UBS Warburg, the judge instructed the jury that it was legitimate to presume that the information Warburg could not provide due to lost backup tapes and e-mails was probably damaging to the company's case. Zubulake was awarded $20 million.Started in 2005, the cast has been slowly dragging its way through the courts.As reported back then in InfoWorld, AMD accused Intel of monopolistic practices in the PC market by coercing customers to use its products rather than AMD's.Among the illegal practices cited by AMD against Intel were a variety of tactics to limit AMD's growth in the market by paying retailers and system OEMs not to sell or build systems with AMD chips.Earlier this year, the European Commission notified Intel that based on its monitoring of Intel?s business practices, the EC believes Intel was in violation of European Union monopoly law.If Intel loses the case, said Brookwood, it would of course have to cease the practices that AMD alleges are over the top for a company with the market share the size of Intel's.More damaging, however, could be the court dollar award if AMD is able to prove it has been economically damaged to the tune of X billions of dollars by Intel practices.AMD also claims that consumers have been damaged for billions of dollars over the past decade. If AMD wins, a class action lawsuit could also be in the offing.
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison's research arm has sued computer chip maker Intel claiming the company violated the university's patents in making the popular Core 2 Duo processor.
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Will the company's next PC look like a Christmas tree? A patent filing sheds some light.
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Wisconsin silicon heads The patent defense arm of the University of Wisconsin hit Intel with a lawsuit this week, claiming abuse of intellectual property related to parallel processing.â¦
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Jon Lech Johansen's Web site, "So Sue Me," reflects the famed hacker's philosophy. Now he's up against Apple.
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CousinLarry writes &quot;Online &#39;university&#39; Trinity Southern University (Google cache of disabled site homepage) has been sued by the state of Pennsylvania.
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Securities class-action attorney William Lerach, who has been called the most-hated man in the tech business, is set to plead guilty to a count of conspiracy, the Wall Street Journal reports. Hear that sound? It's champagne corks popping all over Silicon Valley.
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - The Pennsylvania attorney-general&#39;s office has sued an online university for allegedly selling bogus degrees, including an MBA awarded to a cat.