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Barnes & Noble is fighting back against Microsoft’s claims that its Android-powered Nook devices violate its patents, angling to involve regulators as the tech giant ramps up intellectual property battles. The bookseller on Tuesday submitted to the International Trade Commission a letter sent to the Department of Justice’s chief counsel for competition policy, accusing Microsoft [...]
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Barnes & Noble Asks DoJ to Investigate Microsoft Patent Tactics
November 9th, 2011 
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No Comments »RIM Asks Dissatisfied Customers to Upgrade
October 24th, 2011 admin Research in Motion suggested unhappy BlackBerry users simply upgrade their smartphones, as many of struggling company’s business customers plan to switch to new platforms within the next year. The Enterprise Management Associates study found that 60 percent of small business users and 30 percent of larger-corporation BlackBerry users planned to scrap the OS within one [...]
Apple Asks Court to Deny Verizon’s Plea for Samsung
September 28th, 2011 admin Apple is asking court officials to deny Verizon’s effort to support Samsung in legal proceedings, attempting to regain control of an increasingly complicated courtroom battle. The company says “non-parties” should not be able to involve themselves in the ongoing patent battle, referring to Verizon’s filing of a brief on Monday in Northern California District Court. [...]
Verizon Asks Obama to Curtail Patent Wars
August 25th, 2011 admin Verizon wants President Obama to stop the International Trade Commission from banning mobile devices, attempting to prevent fallout from tech companies’ volatile patent wars. The Basking Ridge, N.J.-based company’s chief counsel Randal Milch called on Obama to issue an overarching statement blocking any U.S. injunctions the ITC may impose on warring tech giants. He recommended [...]
FCC Asks AT&T for LTE Details
August 25th, 2011 admin The Federal Communications Commission is asking AT&T for more details on the company’s proposed T-Mobile acquisition, increasing scrutiny of the merger in light of leaked information that the carrier may be able to increase spectrum without the purchase and for one-tenth the price. AT&T could reportedly supply high-speed wireless service to most Americans by other [...]
Israel Asks Apple to Pull Palestinian Protest App
June 22nd, 2011 admin The Israeli government has asked Steve Jobs to remove an app, which it claims encourages violent Palestinian protests, from the App Store, putting Apple in the position of moral arbiter. In a letter addressed to Jobs, a government minister said the Arabic-language app, called “Third Intifada,” which aggregates information about planned protests against Israel, is [...]
FCC Asks for Public Opinion on AT&T, T-Mobile Deal
May 2nd, 2011 admin The Federal Communications Commission today announced a new website for the public to voice their concerns on AT&T’s proposed buyout of T-Mobile, in the next step of the agency’s review of the deal. The agency said that anyone with comments of the proposed merger can go to its Electronic Comment Filing System, or ECFS, site [...]
Huawei Asks for U.S. Security Clearance
February 25th, 2011 admin Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei has asked the U.S. to formally investigate its background, in hopes of clearing a path for the company to do business in the country after authorities blocked a takeover deal due to security concerns. The Shenzhen-based company released an open letter detailing how the U.S. government used “falsehoods” and “unfounded” [...]
RIM Asks India for More Time to Fix Security
January 8th, 2011 admin Research in Motion has asked the Indian government for an additional 18 to 24 months to address the country’s security concerns about its encrypted email servers, according to a leaked memo, adding the latest chapter to an ongoing conflict between the BlackBerry maker and foreign officials. “Our dealings with the government of India remain positive,” [...]
Google Asks Court to Dismiss Oracle Lawsuit
October 7th, 2010 admin Google today asked a U.S. court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Oracle, which accuses the Internet search giant of patent infringement, due to a question of the validity of the patents. Earlier this month, Oracle sued Google over seven counts of patent infringement and one count of copyright infringement associated with Java, the technology [...]
