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Apple Sued for Time Machine Patent Infringement

Another day, another patent lawsuit for Apple. This time they're being sued by the firm Mirror Worlds. The patents at issue deal with a "document stream operating system," which means files are stored in a chronologically ordered stream, and whoa, are archived automatically. Sounds like Time Machine, even though the suit doesn't name Time Machine explicitly. In fact the whole suit's rather vague, except they say that Apple knew about their patents back in 2001. But like most patent suits, this one will probably go quietly into the night. [Ars, USPTO]

2:32 PM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By matt buchanan
2,428 views, 23 comments

Latest by Worf: Actually, source code control (which keeps documents in chronological order), has been around nearly from the beginning of UNIX computing - SCCS was one of the first code control systems, and was around in the mid-70s... And I'm sure many companies more »

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Justice Department Says $222,000 Damages Awarded to RIAA in File-Sharing Suit Not "Obviously Unreasonable"

The Department of Justice says that the $222,000 verdict—over $9,000 a song—Jammie Thomas got slapped with for file-sharing when she (somewhat feebly via her weak evidence) went up against the recording industry lawsuit machine is not unconstitutionally excessive. More »

6:20 PM on Tue Dec 4 2007
By Matt Buchanan
7,454 views, 52 comments

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Microsoft Cries Uncle in Europe, Will Give Up Code to Competitors

After nine years of back and forth and a small country's GDP in fines for antitrust violations, Microsoft's finally caving to EU antitrust regulators by giving code to competitors it's fought to keep to itself after a 2004 European Commission directive to hand it over. A ruling last month by the EU's second-highest court affirmed the EU's right to force powerhouse companies to share intellectual property with competitors in order to level the playing field, which purportedly led Ballmer to fly to Europe to cut the deal. More »

4:00 PM on Mon Oct 22 2007
By Matt Buchanan
2,891 views, 35 comments

Latest by Asteroid: @clarkjw: Yeah, Microsoft doesn't have to sell their software to the EU. They should just stop selling the software if the EU has a problem with it. This will probably increase piracy, but there are still people that will more »

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Verizon Hit With Lawsuit Hammer for Overstating FiOS TV Subscribers

It seems the FiOS TV subscriber numbers in the NYC region haven't quite hit what Verizon has hoped—or has even said. An ad company's suing Verizon for publishing allegedly inflated numbers of FiOS TV subscribers that lump in "pending" customers with current subscribers, allowing it to boost ad rates. More »

3:50 PM on Thu Oct 4 2007
By Matt Buchanan
2,768 views, 14 comments

The former head of allofmp3.com was acquitted in a Russian court, avoiding both fat fines and jailtime. Of course, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (repping EMI, NBC and Time Warner in the case) is planning to appeal. [CNN]

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Circuit City is irked about seeing their weekly ads up on Cheap Ass Gamer and DVD Talk before they hit the Sunday papers, especially the one that revealed the PS3 price drop—they've subpoenaed both sites for info about the leaker. [Kotaku]

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