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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Red Hat settles 2 patent lawsuits filed against it

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    Dan Cox of Hewlett-Packard talks about Red Hat Linux at the Linux Expo in New York on January 23, 2003. REUTERS/Chip East

    BOSTON (Reuters) - Business software maker Red Hat Inc (RHT.N) said on Wednesday that it has settled two of three pending patent lawsuits that the company has been fighting.

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    Red Hat, the world's biggest seller of Linux software, said it has settled patent claims by Firestar Software Inc, filed in 2006, and DataTern Inc, filed this year.

    Financial terms of the settlements were not disclosed.

    Red Hat Vice President Rob Tiller said the company is still defending itself against a third patent complaint filed in October 2007 by IP Innovation LLC and Technology Licensing Corp.

    (Reporting by Jim Finkle; Editing by Gary Hill)
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