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30 Jun 2005
The SCO Group won a minor victory in a slander suit against Novell on Monday, after a Utah District Court refused to dismiss the action. SCO had accused the Linux distributor of interfering, in bad faith, with SCO’s rights in the UNIX operating...
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30 Jun 2005
WhenU.com has won a court battle over pop-up ads that it displayed on the web site of contact lens seller 1-800 Contacts, after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the ads did not breach 1-800 Contacts’ trade marks.
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30 Jun 2005
Volvo has lost an attempt to recover the domain name volvo-auto-body-parts-online.com from a spare parts dealer, with an arbitration panellist saying that unauthorised dealers can enjoy the same rights to a trade mark as authorised dealers.
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30 Jun 2005
The premium rate services regulator has launched an investigation into a company behind the Crazy Frog phenomenon, after complaints that children have been duped into signing up to an expensive subscription service.
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30 Jun 2005
Sony has won an injunction to stop a one-man band reseller from flogging imported Playstation portables.
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29 Jun 2005
The Government narrowly won a second reading of the controversial Identity Cards Bill in the House of Commons yesterday, after the Home Secretary agreed to put a cap on the cost of obtaining a card.
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29 Jun 2005
Two men involved in a phishing scam that earned around £6.5 million over two years were sentenced to prison on Monday. US citizen Douglas Havard received a sentence of six years, while Scottish-born Lee Elwood was given four.
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29 Jun 2005
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has published new guidance for entrepreneurs, inventors and SMEs, explaining how patents can be used to further strategic business goals.
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29 Jun 2005
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) sued Intel on Monday, alleging that its chip-making rival has abused a monopoly position in the x86 microprocessor market by coercing 38 companies into steering clear of AMD.
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28 Jun 2005
A tax loophole that has let retailers like Tesco and Amazon.co.uk establish operations in the Channel Islands to sell DVDs and CDs on-line to UK consumers free of VAT is to be tightened by the Jersey government.
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