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US Report: Experts - MS Paying Fortune In Legal Fees
News Microsoft can afford to hire top legal talent and Silicon Valley lawyers say the software company never balks at legal fees -- whatever the amount. In its legal battles against the government and sundry business rivals, Microsoft has dispatched an...
[September 29, 1998, 15:25]
SCO's Legal Fees Eat Up Profits
News Controversial Unix software company the SCO Group reported a loss for its fourth quarter on Monday, based largely on the hefty legal fees the company has accrued in waging its intellectual-property war against Linux.
[December 23, 2003, 11:50]
SCO's Legal Fees Eat Up Profits
Talkback Their revenue was up $8.8 million this year (which very nearly covered their legal costs), mostly from, software makers Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. So after making a $9m payout to lawyers to help screw Linux users, making a net loss of $1.6m...
[January 13, 2004, 5:44]
Microsoft To Pick Up Half Of State's Legal Tab
News A federal judge has ordered Microsoft to pay nearly $1m in legal fees to the state of Massachusetts, although the award was less than half of what the state has been seeking. We are pleased with the court's opinion to reduce Massachusetts' request...
[September 23, 2003, 10:35]
Shareholders Dismiss Lawsuit Against Rambus
News And Rambus' legal fees every quarter continue to substantially eat into the company's operating profit. Withholding the information subsequently led to a trial court victory against Rambus in favour of memory maker Infineon for millions in damages...
[May 29, 2003, 7:54]
Microsoft Settles Bristol Lawsuit
News In November, US district judge Janet Hall ordered Microsoft to pay Bristol $3.7m (£2.6m) in legal fees after earlier slapping the company with $1m (£690,000) in punitive damages. Bristol alleged that Microsoft initially gave access to the Windows...
[February 22, 2001, 9:05]
Life After Microsoft - One Firm's Complete Conversion To Open Source
News But when (the BSA) went to Congress to get their powers, part of what they got is that I automatically have to pay their legal fees from day one. Ball settled for $65,000, plus $35,000 in legal fees. Sterling Ball, a jovial, plain-talking...
[August 22, 2003, 15:00]
Microsoft's New Weapon Against Linux Questioned
News The main Linux vendors -- Red Hat and Novell -- both have IP indemnification policies which include damages and legal fees, although neither offer uncapped protection. It states that it will pay damages up to $1.5m for an allegedly infringing...
[November 1, 2004, 15:54]
SCO Sets Steep Charge For Linux Licence
News Along with the lawsuit, Red Hat announced it had set up a defence fund, with an initial pledge of $1m, to help pay legal fees for any open-source software developers or nonprofit organisations targeted by SCO.
[August 6, 2003, 9:10]
Administrators And Bankers Face Losses Over Time Collapse
News A controversial but established legal option suggests that ex-employees of the company may be able to claim money directly out of the fees due to the administrators, Grant Thornton. According to an opinion published in The Lawyer, case law payments...
[August 8, 2005, 18:05]
Unix Copyrights Emerge From Shadows
News SCO is fighting with corporate users of Linux -- and the software industry at large -- and has engaged in a high-profile legal battle with IBM, all in an effort to establish its claim to fees for use of the open-source operating system.
[January 14, 2004, 8:55]
Domain Name Price Hikes Attacked
News The dispute arises out of a lawsuit settlement reached on 1 March in which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gave VeriSign the right to raise fees on .com domains by seven percent annually.
[June 8, 2006, 8:40]
Ballmer: Mod Chips Threaten Xbox
News Ballmer said the ruling threatens Microsoft's business strategy for the Xbox, which relies on licensing fees and other revenue from game sales to subsidise hardware manufacturing costs. Given the way the economic model works -- and that is a...
[October 22, 2002, 7:49]
European Net Registrars Boycott ICANN
News European domain name registries including Nominet, which runs the popular .uk address system, are refusing to pay fees to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, saying the group has not done enough to guarantee the stability of...
[January 18, 2002, 11:36]
Java Start-up Sues Sun Over Software Patents
News Azul Systems, a company selling hardware to run Java programs, has sued Sun Microsystems in a dispute about software patent fees and royalties. Sun has repeatedly threatened the company with litigation unless Azul granted Sun part ownership of the...
[March 16, 2006, 9:50]
Microsoft Demands Patent Reform
News But funds to support the agency have not kept pace until recently, when patent user fees were increased, Smith said. Nonetheless, he called on Congress to stop the practice of channelling a large portion of the money raised from patent fees to...
[March 14, 2005, 7:55]
AOL Redefines Spam
News For example, AOL said it is not responsible for supplemental telecommunications fees beyond its control as an Internet service. The changes now also include additional wireless and cable modem fees as a reflection of the different ways people use...
[July 9, 2003, 13:56]
Napster Offers Billion Dollar Sweetener
News The company gave a few new details on just what those fees would look like. The annual payment of $200m would come out of projected subscription fees and other potential sources of revenue. But Schmidt said the Napster payments would be a gateway...
[February 21, 2001, 8:40]
Asia-Pacific Firms Rally Against E-commerce Patent
News DE Technologies has already sent letters to firms in New Zealand -- where the patent has been granted -- using e-commerce to conduct international trade and have demanded royalty fees of up to $25,000 (£15,719).
[July 18, 2003, 9:50]
Microsoft's $1bn Settlement With Consumers
News Townsend and Townsend's attorneys fees are not included in the settlement figure, and will be set by the judge. Microsoft is also liable for those fees. We believe that this agreement makes a significant step forward to resolve our antitrust legal...
[January 11, 2003, 8:15]
