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MySimon.com To Contest $26m Damages Award
News The jury recommended that Simon Property Group be awarded $26.8m in damages, although the judge presiding over the case has yet to enter his judgement. The judge will rule on the recommended damages Wednesday, when he will also consider a request...
[September 4, 2000, 13:43]
Microsoft Faces Damages Review In Office Patent Case
News A US federal court that hears patent appeals told a lower court on Tuesday to reconsider the damages that Microsoft must pay a Guatemalan inventor for infringing his software in its popular Office suite.
[February 27, 2008, 13:48]
Internet Defamation Leads To £10,000 Libel Damages
News Michael Keith Smith of the UK Independence Party has become the latest person to win substantial damages after being defamed on the Judge Alistair MacDuff, who heard the case, ordered Ms Williams to pay Mr Smith £10,000 damages and never again to...
[March 23, 2006, 10:25]
Nigerian Company Seeks $20m OLPC 'damages'
News Documents published on open-source legal site Groklaw indicate that solicitors acting on behalf of Lancor demanded $20m (£10m) in damages from OLPC on 6 August, 2007, claiming that patents registered by Lancor for its Konyin Multilingual Keyboard...
[January 3, 2008, 11:12]
Microtune Doubles Damages Against Rival Chipmaker
News Chipmaker Microtune announced that it has won double the damages it sought in a patent infringement case against rival Broadcom. The judge in the case this week awarded the company $3m in damages as well as attorney's fees that, according to...
[August 18, 2003, 14:30]
Microsoft: IP Indemnification 'does Include Damages'
News Microsoft has clarified its IP indemnification policy, saying that it will indemnify claimants against damages as well as just legal costs, but some legal observers say the company still needs to spell out the small print on the protection it is...
[November 4, 2004, 14:03]
Internet Defamation Leads To £10,000 Libel Damages
Talkback Remind me never to vote for the UK Independence Party. I wish people in public office always had the character to ignore Internet slurs. Free speech will always be abused by a few people; it would be best just to ignore them.
[March 24, 2006, 15:52]
The SPY ACT: Ditching Damages As An Element Of Liability For On-Line Conduct Between Private Parties?
White Papers The question of how to stymie the proliferation of spyware on computers has been a recurring topic of debate in Congress and in the technology industry. With the passage of the SPY ACT (H.R.a high probability, this paper highlights its prohibitions...
[June 13, 2006, 0:00]
McAfee Antivirus Update Damages NT 4.0
News A number of Windows NT 4.0 users who updated Network Associate's McAfee VirusScan/Netshield 4.0.2 using the 4120/4110 SuperDat utility were greeted with an ominous error message upon rebooting: "Operating System Not Found.
[December 19, 2000, 14:35]
How Morphy Richards Recovered After Flooding Damages Its Headquarters
White Papers When December's bad weather left Morphy Richards' South Yorkshire headquarters flooded, the staff at the manufacturer of domestic appliances had to evacuate their premises quickly. The river Don burst its banks covering the Mexborough site with...
[August 23, 2006, 0:00]
BT's P2P Throttling 'damages' ADSL's Image
News Industry experts believe that the debacle over BT's throttling of peer-to-peer (P2P) use by its ADSL users could have damaged consumer confidence in broadband, at a time when the UK's IT industry needs the incumbent telco to be doing all it can to...
[October 18, 2001, 13:37]
Ballmer Cites 'facts' In Microsoft's Battle Against Linux
Talkback NO LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. Manufacturer or its suppliers be liable for any damages whatsoever (including without limitation, special, incidental, consequential, or indirect damages for personal injury, loss of business profits...
[October 28, 2004, 17:11]
Alcatel-Lucent Triumphs In Microsoft Patent Case
News Microsoft said on Friday that a US jury awarded Alcatel-Lucent $367.4m (£185m) in damages after finding that the software giant had violated two patents related to the user interface in its Windows operating system.
[April 7, 2008, 9:34]
Barking Bulldog Needs To Pick Up The Scent
Talkback LEGAL ACTION FOR DAMAGES AGAINST BULLDOG - TEST CASE They are hiding behind their damages waiver clause, but we are arguing that this does not apply because Bulldog were well aware of their service shortcomings and should not have been marketing...
[February 14, 2006, 9:02]
E-voting Company Faces Congressional Inquiry
News Diebold is facing threats on two fronts as free-speech advocates pursue monetary damages against it and a presidential candidate urges a congressional inquiry into the company. Instead, they pledged to seek a court order spelling out that...
[December 2, 2003, 11:10]
A Year Ago: Funlove Virus Wreaks Havoc At Dell Plant
News Not much fun for Dell: £14m in damages, 12,000 computers recalled The Funlove virus has ransacked Dell's manufacturing plant in Limerick, Ireland, a disaster that could cost the computing company millions of pounds in damages.
[November 19, 2000, 6:05]
Sun Slaps Microsoft With $1bn Lawsuit
News Sun Microsystems filed a private antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft on Friday seeking damages that could top $1bn (£700m) partly over the software giant's handling of Sun's Java software. Under antitrust law, plaintiffs can be awarded three times...
[March 8, 2002, 18:13]
Rambus Wins $300m From Hynix In Patent Case
News Rambus has beaten Hynix Semiconductor in its patent infringement case, with a court ordering its rival to pay $306.5m (£172m) in damages. Some have estimated that the royalties and damages from the patents could total to about $1bn or more.
[April 25, 2006, 12:20]
Software Giant Threatens Mikerowesoft
Talkback I think Mike Rowe has cause for civil damages. Damages? Microsoft has said that Mike purposefully registered his domain in order to sell it to Microsoft for a large amount of cash. That's slander in anyone's law court.
[January 19, 2004, 17:46]
SCO Wants Another $2bn From IBM
News The US company has upped the ante in an amendment to its suit against IBM, seeking more than $3bn (£1.78bn) in damages for alleged copying of proprietary Unix intellectual property into Linux. SCO also seeks more for misappropriation of trade...
[June 17, 2003, 15:40]
