Tech Law: SAP Loses, Man to Pay in iPod Scam, Psystar Sues Apple, More

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A look at highlights of the past week in the high tech legal world: courts, regulation, and lawsuits.

SAP loses patent suit — SAP has been ordered to pay $138.6 million to Versata Software for patent infringement. [Source: Barron's Tech Trader Daily]

SCO versus Linux continues — A judge has overturned part of a lower court order on who owns the UNIX copyright and is ordering a full jury trial in the battle between SCO and Novell. [Source: TechDirt]

Man gets smacked in iPod scam — Someone in Michigan who had been running a scam, getting iPod “replacements” for serial numbers he had has been ordered to pay Apple $650,000 for the more than 9,000 iPods he received and then resold. [Source: MacDailyNews]

Psystar sues Apple for Snow Leopard — Will these two ever stop? Psystar, just out of bankruptcy and still being sued by Apple for copyright infringement, is now suing to be able to sell Snow Leopard. [Source: AppleInsider]

Google must take down Street View in Switzerland — Google is being ordered to take down access to Street View in Switzerland, which becomes the latest in a series of countries to take similar action. [Source: TechDirt]

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