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Malwarebytes: IObit Stole Our Signatures Database

Malwarebytes accuses Chinese antivirus vendor IObit of stealing its intellectual property and threatens to pursue legal action. Despite the solid evidence presented by Malwarebytes, IObit denies any wrongdoing and plans to respond through its lawyers.Malwarebytes Corporation is a US-based company developing several s...

3 November 2009
03:56 GMT

Open Source Group Acquires Microsoft Linux-Focused Patents

In a move designed to safeguard the Linux community, a group of companies intimately connected with the open source world revealed having acquired no less than 22 Linux-focused patents which belonged to Microsoft at one point. The Redmond-based company had initially unloaded the 22 items on its intellectual property ...

9 September 2009
06:21 GMT

Microsoft IP Protection for Linux Devices from Melco Group

Melco Group is the latest company to jump aboard Microsoft's IP licensing program in order to provide patent covenants to the customers using devices that integrate Linux and additional open-source solutions. The Redmond company noted that the patent agreement inked with Melco Holdings Inc., parent company of B...

16 July 2009
11:57 GMT

Microsoft’s Patent Dowry Now 10,000 Items Strong

Microsoft’s intellectual patent dowry now accounts for in excess of 10,000 items the company revealed this week. With the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently awarding Microsoft the 10,000th U.S. patent, the company managed to join an elite group of innovators worldwide that have also passed the milestone....

11 February 2009
07:01 GMT

Microsoft Provides Anti-Piracy Educational Materials

Via the Digital Citizenship and Creative Content curriculum, Microsoft is essentially providing anti-piracy educational materials. The curriculum is offered for free to all teachers worldwide, and is designed to prepare children for the rules of the game in the new digital age. In this context, the focus is on protec...

15 January 2009
11:34 GMT

EA Tries to Deliver More and More Original Games

Electronic Arts doesn't have a very decent reputation in the gaming industry. People often think of the big corporation as something that wants to squeeze every last penny out of a franchise and release yearly games in most of its series that rarely bring something too innovative. Such is the case with its EA Sp...

27 October 2008
09:01 GMT

IP Family Portrait: Microsoft and Nikon

Microsoft has expanded the "family" built around its Intellectual Property Licensing program with the addition of the latest member, Tokyo-based Nikon. Both companies applauded the newly inked patent cross-licensing agreement, as the first step of a partnership designed to catalyze development of new digital imaging...

28 August 2008
05:35 GMT

Transmeta Gets $150 Million for Intel Lawsuit Settlement

Intellectual property company Transmeta has received the first $150 million as part of the deal inked with chip manufacturer Intel. The ex-supplier of low-voltage x86 CPUs is currently developing and licensing microprocessor technologies with the accompanying intellectual property. Immediately after the transition, T...

11 February 2008
09:09 GMT

Is Microsoft Trying to Teach Linux a Lesson?

Microsoft has announced a new broad patent cross-licensing agreement with Olympus. Neither of the two companies disclosed the financial terms of their agreements. The only details made available by Microsoft were related to the fact that its patents will be implemented into technology going in digital cameras, digita...

16 October 2007
03:15 GMT

Mentor Launches Integrated Subsystem IP for USB

Mentor Graphics Corp. has the first Subsystem IP line, a complete USB solution that has both a digital controller, a physical-layer component and middleware. In the near future there is talk of getting out to the market Subsystem IP-based products for Ethernet, PCI and Serial ATA applications. The move that determine...

29 March 2007
10:01 GMT


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