Tech Law

Wired News has waded into the middle of the controversial court case involving AT&T's alleged participation in the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance operations. An anonymous source provided the news organization with a copy of documents pertaining to the case that the judge had or...

Wired News has waded into the middle of the controversial court case involving AT&T's alleged participation in the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance operations. An anonymous source provided the news organization with a copy of documents pertaining to the case that the judge had or...

Wired News has waded into the middle of the controversial court case involving AT&T's alleged participation in the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance operations. An anonymous source provided the news organization with a copy of documents pertaining to the case that the judge had or...

Security software maker Symantec filed suit Thursday against Microsoft, claiming the software giant infringed its patents and violated a contract between Microsoft and a firm that Symantec now owns. Microsoft exceeded the limits of an agreement it had to use technology from storage software vendor V...

XM Satellite Radio has been accused of "massive wholesale infringement" in a suit filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York by the Recording Industry Association of America. RIAA is targeting XM Radio's latest portable music player, Inno, which allows users to download and store hu...

AT&T lost its bid to have a former employee forced to return records to the company that may show it let federal intelligence agencies access the phone giant's records, but won a small victory when a judge issued an order Wednesday that the documents be kept private pending further court action....

AT&T lost its bid to have a former employee forced to return records to the company that may show it let federal intelligence agencies access the phone giant's records, but won a small victory when a judge issued an order Wednesday that the documents be kept private pending further court action....

AT&T lost its bid to have a former employee forced to return records to the company that may show it let federal intelligence agencies access the phone giant's records, but won a small victory when a judge issued an order Wednesday that the documents be kept private pending further court action....

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of eBay in a longstanding patent dispute with MercExchange. In particular, the Court reversed the appeals court's interpretation regarding the granting of an injunction in a patent infringement suit. For well over a hundred years, patentees, in additi...

The U.S. Justice Department said it will not pursue complaints raised by Google over Microsoft's decision to build search functionality into the new version of its Internet Explorer browser, a feature that could provide a boost to Microsoft's MSN Search. Antitrust regulators said they had looked int...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a lower court review of the eBay and MercExchange case, a decision that could have far-reaching impacts for small firms that hold technology patents -- and larger companies that often find themselves locked in patent litigation. The high court's unanimous decision...

Using authorization given in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S., the National Security Agency has secretly been working with major telecom companies to collect and store records of millions of phone calls, according to a published report. USA Today reported Thursday that the NSA has worke...

Buyers winning name brand merchandise on an auction site for a great price may not get the real deal -- and that can be a big deal in terms of costs to the companies, the auction sites and the duped consumers. Anyone buying products with brand names like Microsoft, Gucci, Nike, Canon, Nokia, Louis V...

A New York state lawmaker has filed suit against Google, claiming the search engine has profited from helping users access child pornography and saying that the company has already demonstrated the ability to stop such searches through its dealings with the Chinese government. Jeffrey Toback, a repr...

A bill before Congress to revamp how franchises are awarded for delivering television to communities will save consumers US$22 million a day, a panel of telecommunication experts said Wednesday at a press conference in Washington, D.C. "Twenty-two million dollars a day," declared panel member Robert...