Facebook and Twitter Have So Far Managed to Avoid Becoming Casualties in Patent Wars

9/20/2011   A number of patent skirmishes have been witnessed by Paul Maritz, the chief executive of VMWare. He has spent 14 years under Microsoft, a large part of which was during the time when the company was rapidly extending its market dominance and threatening other technology powerhouses. Maritz remembers visiting Digital Equipment Corp, Hewlet-Packard […]

First Case to Test Livestock Siting Law Heads for the Supreme Court

9/20/2011   The protracted legal battle between the Rock County residents and the reach of big dairy will reach a pivotal point Wednesday when the first case to test the livestock siting law of Wisconsin will be heard the state’s Supreme Court. The law, which was passed under former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle and a […]