Tech Law

Scoring a victory in its worldwide efforts to curb piracy of its software, Microsoft said it had agreed to settle a lawsuit with a French company that had allegedly made and sold thousands of unauthorized versions of Microsoft business software. Microsoft said its settlement with MPO Group included ...

Two months after being sued by IBM for patent infringement, Amazon.com is firing back, denying it had stolen IBM technology and asserting that Big Blue's patent claims are too broad to be taken seriously. Amazon is countersuing IBM for stealing its own patents. IBM filed suit against Amazon in the ...

With the convergence of security and compliance, businesses will evolve their IT infrastructure to include new technologies, such as database gateways, to achieve the level of data security required. Smart businesses will leverage this new technology to gain a competitive advantage.

The Congressional panel that is looking into Hewlett-Packard's use of pretexting and other tactics during its investigation of boardroom press leaks is now focusing on a stock sale by HP CEO Mark Hurd. Lawmakers from the House Energy and Commerce Committee are interested in Hurd's reasons for cashin...

Research In Motion is suing hand-held device maker Samsung, claiming the company is causing confusion and diminishing the brand power of RIM's BlackBerry by selling a smartphone known as the BlackJack. In a suit filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Waterlook, Ontario-...

Antitrust regulators in the U.S., South Korea and Japan are investigating whether major providers of LCD technology engaged in anti-competitive behavior. Shares of LCD makers such as LG.Philips and Samsung Electronics plummeted in overseas trading after news broke that both Japanese and U.S. regulat...

In a settlement that could lead to new standards for corporate ethics, Hewlett-Packard on Thursday agreed to finance a new law enforcement fund to fight violations of privacy and intellectual property rights. As part of the US$14.5 million settlement, HP will also adopt corporate governance reforms....

Continuing technological advances allow companies to store increasing amounts of personal data about their customers. Maintaining this information can help both companies and consumers, allowing for more tailored customer service without requiring customers to provide the same information repeatedly...

Two major chipmakers said Friday they had received subpoenas from antitrust investigators focusing on the market for graphics processing units and related chipsets. Both AMD and Nvidia announced they had received the subpoenas early Friday and both said they planned to cooperate with investigators f...

A two-month-old shareholder lawsuit alleging that Hewlett-Packard's boardroom spying scandal cost investors millions of dollars was amended this week to add claims of insider trading. The suit, filed in California's Santa Clara County Superior Court on behalf of all HP shareholders, had previously a...

In a setback to Google's efforts to fend off a copyright infringement suit stemming from its ambitious plan to create digital copies of millions of books, rival search engine Yahoo has declined to provide information about its own book digitization efforts. Neither Yahoo nor Google would comment, bu...

Microsoft lost a key ruling this week in the South Korean Supreme Court, which upheld a finding that the company infringed on Korean-English translation software patents held by a local inventor. The plaintiffs -- the academic who invented the language-switching process and the company representing ...

With the Web industry watching closely as it tries to navigate the treacherous waters of online copyright law, Google is facing a lawsuit from a French company that says the search engine did more than just help users find an online copy of its film. Paris-based Flach Film is alleging copyright viol...

The California Supreme Court on Monday ruled that ISPs and Internet publishers cannot be sued for posting or distributing libelous material written by others. At issue in the ACLU v. Gonzales case was the Child Online Protection Act, which would impose criminal sanctions for posting content deemed h...

Former HP chairwoman Patricia Dunn on Wednesday pled not guilty to criminal charges in connection with the corporate spying scandal that swirled around the technology giant earlier this year. Accompanied by her husband, Bill Jahnke, Dunn entered her plea before a Santa Clara County, Calif., Superior...