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Illinois-based developer and businessman Erich Specht has filed a lawsuit against Google, the Open Handset Alliance, T-Mobile, and 45 other companies for trademark infringement. Specht, who runs a software firm named Android Data, is seeking almost $100 million in damages from the defendants for creating, supporting, and selling devices with Google's Android OS.

Article Source The Open Road
May 1, 2009, 8:07 am

Red Hat's legal team share some insights about discovering prior art: "In patent lingo, “prior art” refers to evidence of what was already known in the field. There’s no limit on the form the pr...