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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]
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: 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]
Google faces $1bn damages in trade-secret lawsuit
News LimitNone, a small software-development company, is seeking nearly $1bn (£508m) in damages in a lawsuit that accuses Google of reneging on a partnership with the company and misappropriating its trade secrets for the Google Apps online service.
[June 25, 2008, 9:30]
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]
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]
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]
Former McAfee exec wants damages made public
News Former McAfee president Kevin Weiss, exonerated of wrongdoing in a stock option-backdating scandal, plans to ask a judge on Monday to unseal the arbitration award that cleared him of wrongdoing and ordered McAfee to pay damages for firing him...
[August 24, 2009, 11:57]
Verizon wins largest-ever cybersquatting damages
News A federal court in Northern California has awarded $33.15m to Verizon Communications in what the company is calling the largest cybersquatting judgement ever. Verizon, which announced the judgement on Wednesday, had filed the case against OnlineNIC...
[December 29, 2008, 7:34]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Google faces £40m copyright demand
News A group representing Belgian newspaper publishers is demanding that Google pay it up to €49m — some £40m — in damages related to a lawsuit alleging the search giant linked to and cached their news stories in violation of copyright law.
[May 28, 2008, 8:31]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Multi-Spectral Data Acquisition and Processing Techniques for Damage Detection on Building Surfaces
White Papers This paper describes the development and investigation of a multi-spectral laser scanner for non destructive diagnosis of damages on building surfaces. The application of four semiconductor lasers as defined active light source, especially in...
[October 7, 2008, 1:01]
