INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Google Inc. has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion or $40 a share in cash, valuing each essential patent at about $20 million, to defend its Android ecosystem. RBC Capital Markets said the deal value of $12.5 billion equates to 0.7 times trailing twelve months (TTM) of equity value-to-sales.

S&P also reduced Google?s 12-month price target to $500 from $700.

Google Inc. has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion or $40 a share in cash to defend its Android ecosystem. Rising IP threats to Android from Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. were the primary driver of the acquisition, RBC Capital Markets said.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (NYSE:MMI) for $12.5 billion or $40 a share in cash, valuing each essential at about $20 million, to defend its Android ecosystem. The acquisition may also benefit Google TV, Jefferies said in a note.

First fake Apple stores, not straight-up fake phones. China just keeps on copying.

A German court reached an initial decision in the case between Apple and Samsung over their similar tablet products.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) for $40 per share in cash or about $12.5 billion. Jefferies believes Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is likely to strike back in patent war.

Making its biggest deal ever, Google is acquiring Motorola Mobility Holdings for a massive $12.5 billion, which analysts see as an attempt to fend off increasingly aggressive legal attacks from rivals like Apple.

Apple reportedly has doctored a picture of its competitor's product in a lawsuit over intellectual property infringement. How will German judges react?

Google Inc said it will buy phone hardware maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion in cash to bolster the adoption of its Android mobile software.

The ?fake Apple Store? story in July about a couple of fake stores in Kumming, which had begun a crackdown on Aug. 2, has revealed 22 more fake Apple store in the city.

MAP Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: MAPP) announced the issuance of a U.S. patent which extends Levadex intellectual property protection to 2028.

Korean company Samsung Electronics will go to a German court on August 25 to try to overturn a ban on it selling flagship Galaxy tablets in most of the European Union.

The newest version of Apple Inc's popular iPhone has already hit the Chinese market -- the fake market that is.

It seems everything going Apple's way. A day after the consumer technology giant briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil to become the world's largest public company by market capitalization, it won a legal battle against Samsung in Europe.

The United Nations has designated August 9, International Day of the World's Indigenous People.

Corrupt practices, nepotism, imagery and an inadequate education system responsible for lack of scientific spirit

Lady Gaga has been sued for ripping off a song from Chicago-based singer Rebecca Francescatti. Francescatti claims that Gaga's song is similar to a song she recorded in 1999 called 'Juda'.

Over 72 organizations - including the United Nations, the Olympic committees and the U.S. government - have been hacked by China-based hackers for a half decade, according two security companies based in the United States.

In a world of never-ending battle for preserving intellectual property, technology giants Microsoft and Apple are hitting out at Google.

Investors worried about Shady RAT cyber intrusions might benefit from security stocks