Press Statement from Gibson Guitar in Regards to Guitar Hero Retailer Lawsuit
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| On Monday, March 17th, Gibson Guitar Corp. brought a lawsuit against various
| retailers, which are selling Guitar Hero products that are infringing on one
| of Gibson Guitar's U.S. patents. Gibson Guitar took this action reluctantly,
| but is required to protect its intellectual property and will continue to do
| so against any other person in accordance with the law and its rights.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/?epi_menuItemID=8529ea2ad8631dcd3bb97904c6908a0c&epi_menuID=887566059a3aedb6efaaa9e27a808a0c&epi_baseMenuID=384979e8cc48c441ef0130f5c6908a0c&ndmViewId=news_view&newsLang=en&newsId=20080320005960
Gibson Guitar sues retailers over game
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| A federal lawsuit filed Monday claims Wal-Mart, Target Corp., Kmart,
| Amazon.com, GameStop Corp. and Toys "R" Us should stop selling the game.
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http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8VHESG00.htm
Software patents don't just harm software companies. This is proof of this. Any
company with products or a Web site can be sued.
Microsoft's ilk is still trying to forcibly shove this madness into Europe:
Call for clarity on code patents
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| The government is appealing against a High Court decision that granted
| Symbian a patent on a computer program.
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| The ruling overturns a refusal by the UK Intellectual Property Office to give
| the mobile phone firm a patent.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7307375.stm
Related:
Jury finds for Finjan in patent suit against Secure Computing
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| A U.S. District Court of Delaware jury has found that Secure Computing, and
| its subsidiaries CyberGuard and Webwasher, infringed three patents that
| Finjan Software created over the past decade.
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| [...]
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| Finjan is partially owned by Microsoft, which purchased a non-exclusive
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| worldwide license for some Finjan patents last year.
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http://www.scmagazineus.com/Jury-finds-for-Finjan-in-patent-suit-against-Secure-Computing/article/107933/
Finjan wins patent dispute against Secure Computing
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| Finjan Inc. won a patent dispute against Secure Computing Corp., with a U.S.
| District Court of Delaware jury ruling that Secure Computing should pay
| Finjan royalties for infringing on its patents. Secure Computing vows to
| appeal the decision.
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http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1305285,00.html?track=sy160&asrc=RSS_RSS-10_160
U.K. patent office ordered to accept software patent
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| A U.K. appeals court decision is causing confusion over longstanding European
| regulations that generally forbid granting a patent for a computer program.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9069998&intsrc=news_ts_head
High Court says UK-IPO was wrong to reject software-related patent
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| The patentability of software is a controversial area of UK intellectual
| property law. The question seemed to be settled in a decision by the Court of
| Appeal in 2006 which outlined how courts should determine whether an
| invention consists purely of software, and therefore should not be awarded a
| patent.
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| That ruling took in two cases, one involving a company called Aerotel and
| another involving inventor Neal Macrossan.
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http://www.out-law.com/page-8954
Ending software patents: Has the time come?
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| The End Software Patents Web site, here, highlights a long list of diverse
| businesses that have been sued for allegedly infringing software patents,
| including the Green Bay Packers, OfficeMax, Caterpillar, Kraft Foods , ADT
| Security Services, AutoNation, Wal-Mart , Walgreen , Barnes & Noble, Circuit
| City Stores , Ford Motor , E I du Pont de Nemours and Co. , and so on. In
| most cases, the companies have been sued because of certain basic, routine
| functions performed on their Web sites — the way images are displayed, the
| way data is gathered or transmitted — which are said to infringe software
| patents.
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http://legalpad.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/02/28/ending-software-patents-has-the-time-come/?source=yahoo_quote
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