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Cisco gets a big patent win despite Supreme Court loss, overturns $64M verdict

Cisco Nexus switches. (credit: pchow98)

Cisco has finally quashed a long-running lawsuit brought by an Israeli patent-holding company called Commil USA. The case took a surprising number of detours, including a trip to the Supreme Court last year that looks almost unnecessary in hindsight.

In an opinion (PDF) published Monday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said...

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Bank of America gets Twitter to delete journalist’s joke, says he violated copyright

The founding editor of Business Insider UK, Jim Edwards, had a bank delete two of his tweets today. In an e-mail, Bank of America told Edwards that his tweets violated the bank's copyright and that if he kept it up, they'd see to it that his Twitter account was deleted.

"Investment banks apparently have the power to censor journalists on Twitter, simply by asking," Edwards wrote in...

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Busted by online package tracking, drug dealer gets more than 8 years in prison

(credit: Adam Jones, Ph.D.)

A Massachusetts man who bought methylone (also known as "molly") online from China was sentenced Monday to eight years and four months in prison.

Harold Bates pleaded guilty in September 2015 to importing methylone and one count of possession by an inmate in prison of a prohibited object. Curiously, the man was busted...

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Couple takes pics of Star Wars figure they bought, gets DMCA notice from Lucasfilm

These aren't the figurines Lucasfilm is looking for. (credit: Star Wars Action News)

For the last decade, Marjorie Carvalho and her husband have produced Star Wars Action News, a podcast dedicated to Star Wars collectibles of all sorts. Predictably, they've had a lot to talk about, as waves of action figures and other collectibles have been launched in...

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