The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a final confirmation of a patent awarded to i4i that is at the heart of a dispute with Microsoft and that once threatened the sale of Word software.

Google has secured a deal to provide search results and related advertising to Yahoo Japan, Japan's most popular Web site, the two companies said Tuesday.

It's not the first time onlookers have declared that the long-running legal dispute between Novell and SCO is over, but many are saying that a Thursday judgment favoring Novell on all counts is the end of the road.

The company wants to spur the creation of these networks nationwide.

Apple and Nokia are getting into the holiday spirit this year by suing one another over a patent dispute.

Lenovo will buy back the mobile phone unit that it spun off last year, reversing a move it originally made to focus on its core business in PCs, the company said late Friday.

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices Thursday announced that they have settled all antitrust litigation and patent cross-license disputes between the companies.

Oracle Corp.'s purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. last week is reviving calls for Sun's open-source OpenOffice.org suite to be spun out into an independent foundation.

A jury in San Diego ordered Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent US$367.4 million for infringing on two patents, adding a new chapter to a long-running dispute between the companies.

The war of words between Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab and rival Rising Tech, has intensified after Kaspersky slapped a defamation lawsuit on the Chinese antivirus provider following its recent controversial comments.

Cisco Systems Inc. and Apple Inc. have settled a dispute over rights to use the iPhone name. Under terms of the agreement, both companies have the right to use the name.

Toshiba Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. have settled a number of outstanding lawsuits regarding alleged patent infringement and theft of trade secrets related to computer memory chips.

Apple Computer Inc. will resolve its patent squabble with Creative Technology Ltd. by paying the Singapore-based company US$100 million for a license to use a recently awarded patent.

The DRAM company spun off by Infineon Technologies AG earlier this year will list on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday for about half as much as the two companies had been seeking.

The dispute between Apple Computer and the Beatles' Apple Corps heads to the High Court in London this Wednesday.

Symantec Corp. Friday said it has reached an out-of-court agreement in its adware lawsuit against New York-based Hotbar.com Inc. The deal calls for Symantec to dismiss its suit, but continue to classify Hotbar's program files as low-risk adware.