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Children in California who want to buy or rent a violent video game without a parent’s permission could have that right taken away by a federal appeals panel, which heard arguments on the case Wednesday. A state law passed in 2005 that tries to limit access to such games is under consideration by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The state law, which prohibits the sale or rental of the games to anyone under 18 and requires them to be clearly labeled, was struck down last year by a lower court.

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Calif. Appeals Court Considers Ban on Violent Video Games

Google has appealed two court decisions that could ban it and other search engines from operating image searches in Germany, a spokesperson for the Internet giant said Thursday. Last month a district court in Hamburg ruled in favor of two men who claim search engines that pull pictures from their Web sites infringe on their copyrights. The complaints lodged by Michael Bernhard, a photographer, and Thomas Horn, who owns the rights to several frames of a comic called “Psykoman,” resulted in a ruling that could oblige Google and three other search engines to stop displaying images.

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Google Appeals Image Search Ban in Germany

Search engine giants Google and Yahoo are in talks with the U.S. Department of Justice in the hopes of alleviating regulators’ antitrust concerns regarding their pending online ad sharing deal. Reports that the three sides were meeting first surfaced early Tuesday. Antitrust issues have been raised by advertising groups including the Association of National Advertisers, based on the fear that an ad-sharing deal between the top two online ad players — Google and Yahoo — would give Google too much control of the Internet ad market.

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Google and Yahoo Powwow With Feds Over Antitrust Issues

The new film “Flash of Genius” may be based on a 1960s case of patent infringement, but its David-vs.-Goliath story involving independent inventors going up against monolithic corporations continues to spin off sequels well into the 21st Century, says a Minneapolis-based patent attorney. And while the movie uses the automotive industry to tell its tale of innovation, obsession and redemption, the new dramas are being played out on the e-commerce and Internet search stages.

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Patent Law: Juicy Enough for the Silver Screen

Two former software executives grossly overstated their company’s revenue to attract more than $50 million in private investment, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding that the fraud was uncovered late last month when a worker found a set of cooked financial books as she was cleaning out a desk. Paul Thomas Johnston, a founder and chief executive of Entellium, and Parrish L. Jones, its chief financial officer, resigned Sept. 30 and were charged Wednesday with one count of wire fraud in U.S. District Court.

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Entellium Execs Face Fraud Rap for Cooking Books