INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

Executives at the highest levels of Apple Corp and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are in talks about patent litigation between the two companies, a lawyer for Apple said in court.

Executives at the highest levels of Apple Corp and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are in talks about patent litigation between the two companies, a lawyer for Apple said in court.

Ailing Nokia said on Tuesday it had ended a legal battle with Apple, which will pay an undisclosed one-off fee and ongoing royalties to the Finnish firm.

Trademark disputes are nothing new for Apple. The recent lawsuit against Apple's newly announced cloud service iCloud adds to its long list of disputes over using trademarks obtained or claimed by other companies.

Anne Muir, the first Scot person to be convicted for illegally sharing music files online, has been given three years probation.

Procter & Gamble Co sued Vi-Jon Inc again for infringing its patents and trademarks, this time for making and selling a bottle for a Target mouthwash that looks too much like P&G's Scope Outlast.

Apple steps up to defend app developers from a patent suit, saying that the license it bought should cover developers also.

Chinese piracy and counterfeiting of U.S. software and a wide range of other intellectual property cost American businesses an estimated $48 billion in 2009, the U.S. International Trade Commission said in a report released on Wednesday.

Britain's 300-year-old copyright laws look set for a shake-up after the government welcomed proposals to put the country on a par with international competitors.

UK’s reformed copyright law was published on Wednesday to answer the critics who said it was outdated and not keeping pace with the developing digital media.

Following a 5 year legal standoff between peer-to-peer (P2P) boss LimeWire and the Recording Industry Association of America (R.I.A.A.), the two sides have agreed to settle the music piracy dispute for $105 million.

Eastman Kodak Co did not infringe Apple Inc's patented technology for digital cameras, a judge at the International Trade Commission ruled in the most recent round of the companies' patent war.

Software maker Novell Inc can proceed with a long-running antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp after an appeals court reversed a lower court's summary judgment in favor of Microsoft.

Dish Network Corp. and its former unit EchoStar Corp. have agreed to pay TiVo Inc. $500 million to settle a patent infringement lawsuit over use of its 'Time Warp' digital video recorder (DVR) technology.

Tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill, who has created, inked and copyrighted former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson's iconic facial tattoo, has hauled Hollywood movie producer Warner Bros. to court for using the tattoo design without his consent in the upcoming comedy movie The Hangover: Part II.

Tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill, who has created, inked and copyrighted former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson's iconic facial tattoo, has hauled Hollywood film producer Warner Bros. to court for using the tattoo design without his consent in the upcoming comedy movie The Hangover: Part II.

The full text of the patent infringement complaint filed by Samsung against Apple.

The U.S. International Trade Commission is stepping into another legal battle over gadgets, this time between Nokia and Apple.

A group of anonymous internet activists have surged to prominence in Germany by examining the doctoral dissertations of politicians for plagiarism on a public Internet site.

Korean electronics giant Samsung fired back at Apple's patent lawsuit, filing its own claim in South Korea, Germany and Japan.

A week after Apple filed a lawsuit against Samsung over patent infringements, the South Korean company reciprocated in kind by filing law suits against Apple in South Korea, Japan and Germany.