It's Time For Apple To Stop Patent Trolling 
HTC Android Phones Could Be Banned From The US Next Year 
Apple's Appeal Rejected, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 On Sale By Christmas Samsung Wins Tablet Appeal Against Apple - Injunction Overturned 
Samsung Just Changed The Galaxy Tab's Design 
Apple Also Suing Motorola Over Xoom Tablet Design On Monday, Facebook demanded a US federal judge dismiss an “extortionate” lawsuit brought by Paul Ceglia, an entrepreneur with a shady past who is claiming half ownership of the social-networking service.
Every year thousands of birds smack their faces on the glass walls of Apple Stores, and it’s very sad. But have you ever considered the grandmas? An 83-year-old fur magnate walked face-first into an Apple Store door. She’s now suing for $US1 million. UPDATED.
For as big of a deal as the MPAA made about shutting down Megaupload, the trade association is certainly interested in maintaining users’ data for some reason. Oh, it’s so the MPAA can sue some more people? Right, of course.
The Motion Picture Association of America has a well-earned reputation for, shall we say, “moulding” its facts. But with its latest lawsuit against Hotfile, the group has apparently gone too far for Google’s tastes. The search giant has just filed an Amicus brief objecting to the MPAA’s “distortion” of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
I bet when you’re texting with friends you like to drop a :-) or maybe a ;-). If you’re really up on your game, it’s possible you toss in a (^_^). And because RIM and Samsung decided to include a quick-access key for these wonderful digital creations on their smartphones, some soulless patent trolls got all >:-O about it and are taking the companies to court.
As we reported last month, Yahoo has made good on its threat to take Facebook to court over alleged patent infringements. Apparently, Yahoo is taking a page out of Kodak’s playbook.
Apple has been pursuing a patent lawsuit against Kodak over the rights to its LCD screen previews used in its digital cameras, printers and digital picture frames. But with Kodak in Chapter 11, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allen Gropper has ordered Apple to back off, putting current lawsuits on hold and blocking any further legal action until Kodak has sorted out its financial issues..
Next year, a time bomb embedded in the Copyright Act of 1976 starts to detonate, as valuable copyrights fall back into the hands of artists who decide that they would prefer to own their songs, rather than allowing their label and publisher to keep selling them.
