A London court said Thursday it will delay an order banning a Swiss company's sales of technology that it unlawfully reverse-engineered from IBM's software, holding fire while awaiting the outcome of a potential appeal.
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IBM Rival Gets Sales Ban Stayed In Reverse-Engineering Fight

By Jamie Lennox

A London court said Thursday it will delay an order banning a Swiss company's sales of technology that it unlawfully reverse-engineered from IBM's software, holding fire while awaiting the outcome of a potential appeal.

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Dutch Court Asks Experts To Weigh Meta Copyright Licensing

By Hanna Vioque

A Dutch court has appointed three experts to consider the best method for calculating the license fees that Meta must pay for using copyrighted images on Facebook and Instagram.

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Theranos-Linked IP Feud Split Between 2 UPC Divisions

By Jamie Lennox

The Unified Patent Court has allowed separate panels in Germany and Italy to hear a dispute over a patent linked to shuttered blood-testing startup Theranos, divorcing the infringement action from a counterclaim seeking to void the patent.

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LITIGATION

Philip Morris Beats BAT Unit's Challenge To Vape Patent

By Hanna Vioque

European officials dismissed a British American Tobacco unit's attacks against a Philip Morris patent related to vaping devices, ruling that other inventors had not thought to make one of the system's key parts reusable.

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Scaffolding Biz Denies Infringing Rival's Safety Gate Patent

By Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Brisko Scaffolding has denied claims from rival company National Tube Straightening Service that its "Stay Safe" gate infringed the rival's patent, and has also asked a London court to declare National Tube's patent invalid.

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