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India’s Supreme Court denied Novartis AG’s request for patent protection for its Gleevec cancer treatment, allowing the nation’s generic-drug makers to continue to sell copies of the drug at a lower price.
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Major U.S. television broadcasters failed to persuade an appeals court to shut down Aereo Inc., the Barry Diller-backed online TV service that they claim violates their copyrights.
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Mobile telephones sold in the U.S. would need to receive FM radio signals under a proposal pushed by broadcasters as part of a tentative agreement to end a dispute over music royalties.
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The U.S. Congress, deadlocked on extending aid to the long-term jobless, agreed to help rid homes of loud television commercials.
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Time Warner Cable Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. , competitors for pay-television services, joined forces today in a group urging federal regulators to change the rules allowing broadcasters to cut their signals during contract disputes.
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The Obama administration’s plan to allocate TV stations’ excess airwaves for use by wireless Internet services received support from 112 economists at a White House event that featured Google Inc. ’s chief economist.
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The U.S. Supreme Court may loosen or eliminate restrictions on indecent broadcasts as it decides if regulators improperly penalized News Corp.’s Fox and Walt Disney Co.’s ABC for shows involving foul language and nudity.
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Ivi Inc. lost its bid to overturn a court-ordered shutdown of its business of capturing over-the-air television signals and transmitting them to online subscribers.
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President Barack Obama proposed today almost doubling the airwaves available for smartphones, laptop connections to the Internet and new wireless devices.
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TV blackouts in the U.S. have reached the highest level in a decade and may climb as pay-TV operators fight higher fees sought by content providers.
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