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David Nosal, former regional managing director at Korn/Ferry International, was convicted of trade-secret theft and hacking for gaining access to the job- search firm’s proprietary database of executives.
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Google Inc. offered to change the way it operates its search page by “clearly” distinguishing its own search services from those of rivals for five years in a bid to settle an antitrust investigation by the European Union.
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Google Inc.’s competitors, clamoring for the European Union to press the search company to make global changes, face disappointment after the bloc’s antitrust chief said any settlement would focus on Europe.
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Bayer AG’s patent on the birth control pill Yaz is invalid, a U.S. appeals court said in a decision ensuring that Actavis Inc. and Novartis AG’s Sandoz unit can sell copies of the contraceptive.
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Google Inc.’s offer to settle an antitrust probe with the European Union by labeling its own services more clearly in Web search results is a “non-starter” for a group of competitors such as Microsoft Corp. and Foundem.
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A group representing Microsoft Corp., Expedia Inc. and Nokia Oyj filed an antitrust complaint against Google Inc. over its Android operating system as part of a campaign to force the European Union to fine or alter the conduct of the owner of the world’s largest search engine.
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The U.S. Supreme Court told a lower court to reconsider whether some types of ideas can be patented, in a sign that further limits may be set on infringement lawsuits against technology companies.
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SAP AG , the world’s biggest maker of business-management software, abused its dominant position, Versata Software Inc. said in a complaint to the European Union’s competition regulator.
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Software companies can’t rely on copyright rules to prevent rivals from “reverse engineering” computer programs, the European Union’s highest court ruled.
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Google Inc. may need to make concessions to win Justice Department approval of its planned acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., antitrust lawyers and analysts said.
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