Last year, in a case involving eBay, the court granted patent infringers more wiggle room against injunctions.

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Last year, in a case involving eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ), the court granted patent infringers more wiggle room against injunctions.

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The company started in the temperature-controls business in 1885, two years after its founder, Warren S. Johnson, a professor at the State Normal School in Whitewater, Wisconsin, received a patent for the electric room thermostat.

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Meanwhile continued privacy concerns dog Apple (and numerous other tech companies) and the persistence of the patent wars leaves lots of room for doubt about the future of Apple and its competitors.

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Details of an immersive video games display system that projects images of the title's environment around a player's room have been revealed in a US patent belonging to Microsoft.

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The extra time gives Pfizer Chief Executive Jeffrey Kindler breathing room in which to convince investors that his company can deliver new drugs to make up for patent losses.

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