Tech Legal Week: EU Tells MS No IE, Dell Settles, Nortel Files, More

EU tells Microsoft to ditch browser — The European Union ruled that Microsoft’s bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows violates antitrust rules. [Source: The New York Times]

Dell settles with attorneys general — Dell will pay $3.85 million as a settlement with 34 number of states that the company was misleading in some financing and service offers. The company was avoiding the possibility of a wide set of lawsuits, as it had lost the one that New York brought. [Source: AP]

Nortel files for bankruptcy — Nortel Networks filed for bankruptcy protection, but some analysts think that the hole may be too deep to climb out of. [Source: The New York Times]

RealNetworks beats Friskit — RealNetworks has beaten down an attempt by Friskit to revive a patent infringement lawsuit by using the Supreme Court’s KRS v. Teleflex decision and arguing that the patents were obvious combinations of previously existing elements. [Source: Press Release]

Global Crossing says uncle — Global Crossing has agreed to license a set of interactive voice application patents from Katz Technology Licensing, which has collected from hundreds of other companies. [Source: Between the Lines]

USPTO to reexamine TiVo patent — Echo Star, which lost a patent infringement suit brought by TiVo, has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to reexamine the latter’s patent. [Source: Between the Lines]

HP, Microsoft, and Intel sued for patent infringement — Xpoint is suing Intel, HP, and Microsoft for infringing on patents to automatically restore data from secondary storage in the case of a hardware or software fault. [Source: Computerworld]

ITC to investigate handset complaint — The International Trade Commission voted to investigate a complaint by Saxon Innovations that Nokia, Palm, RIM, and two others have infringed on Saxon’s patents in their handset products. Saxon is seeking the ITC to ban importation into the U.S. of the products. [Source: Computerworld]