AT&amp;T, AT&amp;T Wireless, and Cingular Resolve Branding Issue
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AT&amp;T, AT&amp;T Wireless, and Cingular Wireless resolved issues relating to the use of the AT&amp;T brand in connection with Cingular&#39;s acquisition of AT&amp;T Wireless.
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Cingular Wireless LLC&#39;s $41 billion buyout of rival AT&amp;T Wireless Services Inc., approved Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission, is expected to give customers
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Aruba Networks&#160;countersued two divisions of Motorola&#160;Wednesday, adding a new twist to a wireless LAN (local area network) patent-infringement case that affects some of the biggest vendors in the business.Symbol Technologies and Wireless Valley Communications, both of which are now&#160;owned by&#160;Motorola, sued Aruba&#160;in August. They claimed Aruba knowingly used technology covered by several patents they own, and are seeking an injunction and damages.But in its response to their complaint, filed Wednesday, Aruba claimed Symbol knew enough about Aruba&#39;s products in 2003 to say they might be infringing Symbol&#39;s pending patents. Aruba also argues both Symbol and Wireless Valley withheld information they were required to give to patent examiners. As a result, the patents are invalid and Symbol and Wireless Valley&#39;s complaints should be dismissed, the company said.Aruba also countersued, seeking declaratory judgments that it didn&#39;t infringe and that the patents are invalid and unenforceable. Aruba wants Symbol and Wireless Valley to pay the costs of the suit and its attorney fees.In 2003, when Symbol was an independent company, it came close to buying Aruba, according to the filing. Throughout the first half of that year, as the companies discussed the proposed deal, Symbol had &quot;essentially unfettered access&quot; to information about how Aruba&#39;s products were designed and made, Aruba said. Among the engineers inspecting its technology was the inventor on two of the patents involved in the suit, they said. The talks eventually broke off because the companies couldn&#39;t agree on terms, the filing said.Aruba argued that Symbol never warned it might sue over the patents, leading Aruba to infer that it didn&#39;t intend to enforce any patent rights. The company waited for four years after that inspection and then sued without warning on the eve of an Aruba quarterly earnings announcement, Aruba said. In addition, both Symbol and Wireless Valley knew about Aruba&#39;s business for years and should have known about the activities it sued over, yet only sued after Aruba had invested tens of millions of dollars in designing and testing its products, the company said.&#160;
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Justice Department antitrust regulators cleared the way Monday for Cingular Wireless LLC's $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., a crucial step toward creating the nation's largest wireless telephone company.
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While waiting to clear the final hurdles for their pending $41 billion merger, Cingular Wireless and AT&amp;T Wireless reported their separate third-quarter results.
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What will Cingular Wireless get after it pays $41 billion in cash to acquire AT&amp;T Wireless later this year? The answer became clearer yesterday after AT&amp;T Wireless reported third-quarter financial results
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Cingular Wireless today announced it has completed its previously announced merger with AT&amp;T Wireless, creating the nation&#39;s biggest wireless carrier with the
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U.S. regulators are set to give  Cingular Wireless final approval for its $41 billion purchase  of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. AWE.N on Monday, on condition  that it sells assets including wireless airwaves in more than  16 markets, according to a source close to the deal.
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Federal regulators approved the $41 billion purchase of AT&amp;T Wireless by Cingular Wireless, a crucial step in a merger that will create the nation&#39;s largest cellphone company.
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Cingular Wireless, which completed its $41 billion acquisition of AT&amp;T Wireless in October, is to have finished today its makeover of 226 company-owned stores that were former AT&amp;T Wireless locations, a job that started Sunday night.
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NEW YORK, October 26  - Cingular Wireless has completed its previously announced merger deal with AT&amp;T Wireless Services Inc (AWE.
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Cingular Wireless is under attack from its biggest rival, Verizon Wireless, which is trying to recapture the top spot in the cellphone industry.
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By Christopher Michel  AT&T's campaign to rebrand eight Cingular stores in the Buffalo Niagara region with the new AT&T logo has begun, continuing the integration of the giant telecoms that started with AT&T's acquisition in 2006.
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Ringback technology company Ring Plus sued U.S. wireless carrier Cingular in federal court Tuesday, although it wasn't immediately clear what patents the carrier was accused of infringing.
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Cingular Wireless said it reached an agreement with AT&amp;T (nyse: T - news - people ) resolving a branding dispute for the AT&amp;T name.
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ATLANTA - Preparing for the acquisition of AT&amp;T Wireless, Cingular has committed to a $100 million deal to buy network services from AT&amp;T, Cingular said Monday.
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BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion said it has settled its lawsuit with Samsung over its use of the "BlackJack" trademark for handsets sold in the US by Cingular Wireless (now AT&T).  But the terms of that settlement are unclear, and AT&T may still have to make changes.