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Somali Pirates

Everyone loves pirates, right? Johnny Depp was dashing, and Errol Flynn made women swoon. The Somali pirates, though, seem to have everyone captivated. (Or maybe that's just "captive.") In any…

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Apple Not A Monopoly (For Now)

Hmmm... Well, I can't say I'm that surprised, but U.S. District Judge William Alsup has rejected Psystar's claim that Apple is a monopolist. (Psystar markets the OpenMac, which runs OSX…

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Swiss Banking Follow-up

Mentioned the other day that the US is gearing up to go at Switzerland hard. Now it looks like the first broad-side managed to rip some rigging loose. According to…

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Counterfeit Goods Indictments

When I think of when I was in Italy seven years ago or so, there are a few things that stick out in my mind. (Apart from just being in…

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Swiss Bankers Come Under the Microscope

Very, very interesting. Everyone knows about Swiss and Liechtensteiner banks, and how those countries' strict bank secrecy laws make them attractive places to put money. Earlier this year, Germany caused…

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LCD Price-Fixing Followup

I had been somewhat curious about the LCD price-fixing pleas announced yesterday, because, unlike the DRAM price-fixing convictions, no executives were named. In the DRAM prosecutions, executives from Samsung, Hynix,…

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Price-Fixing Pleas

Antitrust lawyers working for the government seem to be on something of a little roll lately. In addition to recently causing the proposed venture between Google and Yahoo to get…

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Interesting Turn of Events

Normally, stories about Houston's "massage" parlors (and I'm not talking Massage Envy, here) involve undercover police officers posing as civilians in sting operations. So this is an interesting "man bites…

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Extradition from Canada

International extradition is one of those processes that always generates a lot of interest. Part of this, I suspect, is the word "international," but it can't be denied that there's…

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Theft of Trade Secrets and Wire Fraud

Patents always seem to get the bulk of attention when it comes to intellectual property law, which is pretty interesting to me, considering the protections available to copyrights and trademarks…