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Microsoft Will Not Sue Over Linux Patents
News In an official statement emailed to ZDNet UK, Microsoft confirmed that it would not litigate for now. Rather than litigate, Microsoft has spent the last three years building an intellectual property bridge that works for all parties — including...
[May 21, 2007, 11:16]
States Still Mulling Over Microsoft
News The group that is inclined to litigate -- to pursue a stronger remedy -- is nonetheless "willing to continue mediation," Sullivan said, "if Microsoft is open-minded on the issues. Brendan Sullivan, the lead attorney for the states, said that the 18...
[November 6, 2001, 16:58]
BEA Under Pressure To Get Financials In Order
News And if they can't get their financials done before the trial, I would imagine BEA would litigate vigorously and litigate for a date far enough out for them to get it done before the meeting. Without current audited financials, the company can't...
[November 5, 2007, 10:08]
SCO Bans Press From Open Systems Briefing
News The SCO Group's Australian managing director has played down a move to bar media outlets from his presentation to the Australian Unix and Open Systems User Group (AUUG) as pressure intensifies over the vendor's decision to litigate over...
[May 29, 2003, 9:09]
Microsoft Demands Patent Reform
Talkback They could easily avoid spending that $100 million by licensing inventions instead of trying to litigate inventors into the ground. "The software giant wants the US patent system to be overhauled to cut down on the $100m it spends each year...
[March 19, 2005, 19:50]
Skype And Kazaa Named In StreamCast Lawsuit
News We have filed a suit alleging RICO and other claims, and we intend to litigate it aggressively. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California, claims that StreamCast owns the technology underlying
[March 28, 2006, 9:30]
Richard Barry: "IT's Like This..."
News Nothing to report means ‘we're working on something that's really pretty cool, with some very touchy partners, who by the way, are quite prepared to litigate in order to protect their interests. We all love to hate IBM.
[December 4, 1998, 15:26]
Spamhaus Should Give Reasons
Talkback If I am listed again by Spamhaus I will litigate. I am an individual. Yesterday my server informed me that it was refusing my mail because I was listed at spamhaus. I scanned my machine and found that it was not infected.
[December 5, 2006, 11:29]
Sun Has Betrayed Us All
Talkback In that light, Sun has chosen to settle a pending legal matter rather than litigate it further, at additional time and expense that could be focused on our core business. Firstly, we'd like to express our extreme disappointment with your decision...
[October 12, 2004, 3:12]
Sun's Patent Settlement Sparks Controversy
News In that light, Sun has chosen to settle a pending legal matter rather than litigate it further, at additional time and expense that could be focused on our core business. Whatever the rights and wrongs of Sun's decision to settle its patent dispute...
[October 13, 2004, 16:40]
Microsoft Rubbishes School Open Source Report
Talkback Let them grow up in a world where people share and are open about things, rather than one where people guard their knowledge jealously and litigate wildly against anyone that tries to take that away. Laurence Leach>That's what Microsoft would like...
[May 17, 2005, 12:27]
WAP Forum CEO: Eye2Eye - Part 2
News If you get a situation where somebody thinks that the license fees that someone is asking for are not fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory, they have two alternatives: they can either negotiate, or they can litigate.
[May 31, 2000, 11:55]
Bristol: It's Payback Time
News They've chosen to litigate, rather than negotiate. To date, Bristol had not made public the result of its calculation of lost business and reputation for which it is seeking remuneration if it is victorious in the case it launched against Microsoft...
[June 22, 1999, 9:02]
Pre-emptive Strike: Micron Sues Rambus
News Rather than negotiate, Micron chose to litigate. Mindful that the best defence is often a good offence, Micron Technology has filed suit against Rambus, slapping the litigious firm with an antitrust suit of its own.
[August 30, 2000, 9:18]
Rambus In EC Antitrust Probe
News Every manufacturer wishing to produce synchronous DRAM chips or chipsets consequently must either acquire a licence from Rambus or litigate its asserted patent rights," said the Commission's statement.
[August 23, 2007, 15:31]
Novell Sues Microsoft Over WordPerfect
News It's also unfortunate, and surprising, that Novell has just now chosen to litigate over a business it owned for a very short time and that it sold more than eight years ago," the Microsoft statement says.
[November 15, 2004, 11:00]
Microsoft Exec Talks Patent Politics
News I think it's the way that Microsoft has stated that 235 patents have been broken, then refused to specify which patents have been broken, and then said that it isn't going to litigate for now. Microsoft's evolving relationship with the open-source...
[May 25, 2007, 17:13]
Microsoft May Become 'major Opponent Of Patents'
News Ubuntu's Shuttleworth claimed that if the large software makers ever decided to litigate over all the patents at their disposal then governments around the world would probably intervene, to prevent the social and economic damage that would result.
[October 6, 2005, 13:35]
Microsoft Settles Another Six Suits
News The company used its announcement of the settlements to put a positive face on its interminable legal woes, noting that the US Justice Department has settled its antitrust suit and that of the 20 state attorneys general who originally sued, only...
[October 29, 2003, 8:45]
Gates Admits Remedy Would've Curbed Microsoft
News We are using the word 'supposedly'.to re-litigate the entire Netscape and Java case," he said at one point. Although he's highly critical of the remedies proposed by nine states and the District of Columbia in his company's antitrust trial...
[April 24, 2002, 11:47]
