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Twitter introduced a new patent license name as the Innovator’s Patent Agreement. The patent license allows the company to continue to file patents on technology its engineers develop while assuring that those engineers and others won’t file lawsuits with the patents except as a defensive countermeasure. The company said in a blog post that it worries patents...

Oracle and Google’s legal fight has finally made its way to the courtroom. The big name to appear was Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who was faced with a line of questioning vital to the case’s shift from patent disputes to copyright infringement. Citing “emails” yesterday, an Oracle attorney states that Google took its...

K.O. Fight – I am talking about the legal battle that kicks off between Oracle and Google starting from Monday. Citing “emails”, an Oracle attorney states that Google took its intellectual property in order to gain an edge in the smartphone market. According to Oracle, Google’s Android operating system tramples on its intellectual property rights to Java,...

A class-action lawsuit [PDF] has been filed against AT&T alleging the company “actively and without reservation aided, abetted, and assisted” iPhone thieves by allowing the stolen handsets to be reactivated on its network, reports ZDNet. The lawsuit comes a day after the news that carriers in the U.S. — including Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, and...