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Lawyer: Microsoft patent claims won't affect UK
News Microsoft's claims that open-source software infringes its patents do not apply in the UK, according to a top lawyer. But a leading lawyer, speaking in London on Wednesday, said that those patents do not cover the UK.
[September 14, 2007, 12:45]
Lawyer sues Yahoo over message-board insults
Talkback The lawyer entered into a public forum? What should happen here is that the judge should send the lawyer to an "Intro to the Internet" class. PLEASE! He used his real information on the Internet? No one uses real identifying information on the net...
[August 6, 2004, 19:12]
Email embarrassment for City lawyer
News The dangers of sending email from work were brought vividly home to a lawyer at a City firm this week who sent out a mail telling friends about his girlfriend's sexual tastes. Lawyer at London law firm Olswang Catharine Taylor warns employees that...
[December 14, 2000, 10:55]
Lawyer warns that PDFs fail on accessibility
News PDF documents on websites and intranets need to be accompanied by accessible HTML or text versions if they are to comply with disability legislation, a leading technology lawyer has claimed. Struan Robertson, a senior associate at Pinsent Masons...
[May 1, 2007, 16:29]
Chinese lawyer to take Symantec to court over XP file deletion
Blog A Chinese lawyer has begun court proceedings against Symantec, alleging that a faulty antivirus update caused his computer to collapse. According to China View, Liu Shihui, a lawyer with the Hongmian Law Firm in southern Guangdong Province, is...
[June 4, 2007, 15:19]
Lawyer sues Yahoo over message-board insults
Talkback The legal system is there to help those who have been wronged, not so some lawyer can make a name for himself, and bring in more clients as a result. Although no one wishes to be abused, there is such a thing as um, what do you call it?
[August 6, 2004, 19:39]
Lawyer urges debate over data-breach rules
News Current rules about when companies have to report customer data leaks are creating uncertainty for executives, and business leaders must join the debate on whether a change of law is needed, according to a top lawyer.
[July 25, 2007, 8:54]
Lawyer: Home Office unlikely to U-turn on hacker
News I'm not convinced Smith ever personally looked at the case — all of the responses [to McKinnon's appeals against extradition] were written by a lawyer. Lawyers for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon are expecting no quarter from the UK government in...
[June 8, 2009, 15:26]
Lawyer sues Yahoo over message-board insults
Talkback However, it also sounds to me like this lawyer only made things worse by posting responses to the message board under his own user name. Although I have not seen the actual postings, I think this case proves that it is next to impossible to filter...
[August 7, 2004, 2:43]
Apple's head lawyer steps down
News Apple Computer's top lawyer has left the company, in the third high-level departure from the Mac maker in recent months. The company on Monday confirmed the departure of general counsel Nancy Heinen, who was its highest-ranking female executive...
[May 9, 2006, 8:40]
Acer secures top lawyer for HP case
News Acer has hired a high-flying intellectual property lawyer to defend itself against patent claims made by HP. At the same time as revealing its choice of lawyer, Acer said it was looking for merger and acquisition opportunities and that it would be...
[April 30, 2007, 17:04]
Red Hat hires IBM lawyer to fight SCO
News Linux seller Red Hat, tangled in a legal wrestling match with the SCO Group, has hired a new top lawyer from IBM. Michael Cunningham, who will join Red Hat on 1 June, previously was associate general counsel for IBM's Business Consulting Services...
[May 18, 2004, 9:15]
Microsoft lawyer: Open-source war is over
News Today, but increasingly in the future, we are all going to be 'mixed source'," Microsoft's top intellectual-property lawyer said in an interview on Thursday. Microsoft thinks the battle between open-source and proprietary software is as good as over.
[October 20, 2008, 11:49]
Lawyer sues Yahoo over message-board insults
Talkback I find this story a little ironic. In order to prove injury, Galton would have to establish that he really ISN'T a "shyster" and an "overly robust geezer that makes a living walking behind the elephant with a shovel.
[August 6, 2004, 21:18]
Lawyer sues Yahoo over message-board insults
Talkback So a laywer who happens to have been anonomous on a message board gets in a huff when another anonoumous person on the said messageboard happens to tell the truth about him! This is certainly a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
[August 9, 2004, 9:23]
Lawyer sues Yahoo over message-board insults
Talkback Yahoo is not at fault, and they display this in there Terms and Conditions when you install Yahoo IM! Commonly used 'we cannot be held responsible for the actions of other users within the systems and upon the services we prove'.
[August 6, 2004, 11:19]
Hacker lawyer: Gov't should right treaty imbalance
News Karen Todner, solicitor for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon, appeals to the government outside the Royal Courts of Justice to change the extradition treaty, adding that McKinnon "is not a terrorist".
[August 5, 2009, 15:21]
News Burst: Virus writer dismisses lawyer
News Alleged virus writer David L. Smith has dismissed his original attorney on Monday, said sources at both the New Jersey Attorney General's Office and defence counsel Steven Altman, Smith's original attorney.
[April 6, 1999, 9:22]
Former Apple lawyer settles stock-options lawsuit
News Former Apple general counsel Nancy Heinen has settled with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over charges that she improperly backdated stock options at the company. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit against...
[August 15, 2008, 10:24]
Smith lawyer: No comment on mystery virus writer
News David L. Smith's attorney was unable to clear up a lingering mystery Tuesday -- the question of whether the programmer charged with spreading the Melissa virus is also VicodinES, a virus writer linked to the virus's creation.
[April 7, 1999, 9:07]
