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Google’s Motorola Patent Cash Cow Fails to Deliver

A judge has finished stroking his chin and thinking about a patent case regarding Motorola's claim for royalties from Microsoft, ruling that MS should pay Motorola just £1.8m a year -- a massive discount to the $4bn Motorola originally demanded. Read More >>

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Crazy Courts Sentences Web Designer for Piracy Crimes

A man who agreed to design a web site for a Swedish torrent site has been found guilty of copyright offences, despite there being no evidence he had anything to do with the running of the site. He just did the design. That was enough. Read More >>

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HTC Beats Apple in UK Swipe-to-Unlock Patent Dispute

Despite winning numerous patent battles and injunctions against Android makers around the world, Apple has now lost its big case against HTC in the UK, with a high court judge ruling the swipe-to-unlock patent is too "obvious" a solution to be considered enforceable. Read More >>

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Courts Set to Swap Paper For Tablets in England and Wales

Our courts of law are looking to join the Post-PC revolution and save money, trialling the use of tablets instead of paper in court. The HP-supplied tablets will save in the region of £50m if rolled out. Let's just hope they're a little more powerful than the TouchPad -- you wouldn't want to get banged up just because the Defence's tablet locked-up. Read More >>