Tech Companies Create Alliance To Fight Patent Terrorism

Google, Cisco, Verizon, Telefon, Ericsson and Hewlett-Packard have partnered to create a shell company dubbed the Allied Security Trust. The shell company intends to buy up key intellectual property so that patent terrorists (our term –Ed.) can’t hold them hostage for broad and ambiguous patents issued by the US government. Aside from the inane lawsuits that attack Apple and others at least once a week, the real danger...

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Judge Finalizes Andersen Lawyer Fees – RIAA Must Pay $107,834

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is now obligated to pay Tanya Andersen’s legal fees in her successful defense of the file-swapping case. This is the final hurdle in Andersen’s protracted battle with the RIAA. (See Judge Recommends RIAA To Pay $107,834 Reimbursement For Andersen’s Legal Fees –Ed.) The final court order by Senior US District Court judge James A. Redden dismissed the RIAA’s...

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