The lawyers may have provided their clients access to highly confidential information, the judge said.

DOJ said staff are prohibited from working on the declassification during the US government shutdown.

In another dispute with Samsung before the court, the jury awarded Apple about US$1 billion in damages last month.

Apple has opposed a government proposed judgment in an e-books price-fixing lawsuit, stating that the judgement seeks to terminate and rewrite its contracts "before a single document has been introduced into evidence, before any witness has testified, and before the court has resolved the disputed facts."

The three governments want the WTO to appoint a dispute settlement panel to examine China's export policies.

Oracle's Safra Catz and Google's Andy Rubin weren't able to come to an agreement in their dispute over Java technology in Android.

Yahoo demands that Facebook should license its technologies or face action.

Chinese company Proview said it started developing its own "iPAD" product in 1998.

Foxconn said the dispute was peacefully resolved at its Wuhan campus in China.

The dispute stems from 3M's decision to use a third-party support provider to help it run its systems.

The judge overseeing Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP will now consider SAP's request for a retrial, after the companies said they are unlikely to reach a mediated settlement in their dispute.

An Oracle expert estimated that Google owes up to $6.1 billion for its use of Java in Android.

Lawyers for Oracle and Google gave the judge overseeing their Java patent dispute a tutorial on Wednesday that underscored the complexity of the case between the two companies.

Google's decision this week to ask the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office to re-examine a number of the Oracle patents at issue in the companies' ongoing intellectual-property case could have a significant effect on how the dispute plays out.

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.

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.

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

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

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.