Boston - The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) said on Monday that it has reached an agreement with publisher GateHouse Media, which accused the company of copyright and trademark infringement.

Redmond, Wash. - Nintendo of America announced on Wednesday that it has settled its patent and trademark infringement lawsuit against accessories maker Nyko Technologies, over the company's "Nunchuk" controller for the Wii console.

New York - Toymaker Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) has dropped its lawsuit against the makers of "Scrabulous," Web knock-off version of the classic board game "Scrabble" that became wildly popular on Facebook, the Associated Press reported.

Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Wednesday introduced the International Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement Act of 2008, legislation intended to crack down on the theft of U.S. intellectual property around the world.

San Francisco - The college-aged developer who created "Tris," a "Tetris" knock-off game for Apple's iPhone, is voluntarily removing the game from the App Store after Apple informed him of trademark and copyright claims it received from The Tetris Company, CNET News.com reported. "I'm a college student, and not an affluent one, and I simply do not have the time, energy, or resources to fight this battle right now," Tris developer Noah Witherspoon wrote on his blog. "I don't think this will be permanent; when I have the time and can find a good copyright lawyer, I'll be figuring out exactly what my position is and how I can make Tris available again."

New York - Following legal actions taken by toymaker Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) to get "Scrabulous," a Web knock-off version of its "Scrabble" removed from the Facebook social network in the U.S., Mattel (NYSE: MAT) -- which owns the rights to Scrabble outside of North America -- has compelled Facebook to take Scrabulous down in most of the rest of the world, the Associated Press reports. The one region where Scrabulous remains available in India, where developers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla reside -- but Mattel has filed suit against the brothers there as well.

New York - Newsgathering agency the Associated Press has settled the copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit it filed last October against news aggregation service Moreover Technologies and its parent company, VeriSign.

San Mateo, Calif. - CafePress, a service that allows consumers to create custom-branded merchandise from their own designs, announced on Wednesday that it has settled a trademark lawsuit filed against it by Hustler magazine publisher LFP, over use of the word "hustler" on items available through CafePress.

Los Angeles - France-based video game publisher Ubisoft has won a $13.2 million copyright and trademark infringement arbitration judgment against MGA Entertainment, owner of the Bratz doll franchise, Ubisoft attorneys Greenberg Glusker said in a statement.

Raleigh, N.C. - Lulu Enterprises, which operates Lulu -- an online marketplace where creators can publish, buy and sell digital content -- has filed a trademark suit against "Hulu," the forthcoming Web video distribution joint venture between News Corp. and NBC Universal.

San Francisco - A company that sued Google in 2003 for trademark infringement, over ads placed through its keyword-based online advertising service, has settled its lawsuit, Reuters reported.