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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]
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]
Microsoft file standard offers 'minimum openness'
News Microsoft has not gone far enough in making its Office formats open, according to a US lawyer. But Andy Updegrove, a lawyer at Gesmer Updegrove LLP, claimed last week that Microsoft's patent statement around called Office Open XML, its proposed...
[November 28, 2005, 13:20]
Microsoft counsel says Euro relations improving
News Microsoft's top lawyer has said a tentative agreement with Brussels, announced earlier Wednesday, could potentially allow the software maker to move out of the regulatory crosshairs, perhaps paving the way for regulators to shift their attention...
[October 8, 2009, 11:53]
Software Jihad
Blog I've been reading an article/blog over at CNN talking about the Chinese lawyer that has filed suit on Microsoft for putting black desktop backgrounds every hour on pirated copies of XP Pro. Maybe the typical Chinese shopkeeper or lawyer shouldn't...
[November 2, 2008, 14:04]
Microsoft: It's all a conspiracy against us
News The Microsoft lawyer heartily denied that there was any specific tying of the Internet Explorer browser to the company's Windows operating system for the purpose of eroding Netscape's then-dominant market share.
[September 22, 1999, 9:30]
Microsoft-Google battle kicks off
News Johnson, the Microsoft lawyer, noted that Microsoft has had a fair amount of success in China, but that success came after early stumbles. This is a case about whether Dr Lee should be required to live up to his promise," Microsoft's lawyer...
[September 7, 2005, 9:45]
Google wheels out big legal guns
News Kekar & Van Nest, a 50-lawyer firm based in San Francisco, represented Grokster it its legal battle over file sharing, and also represented Wall Street banker Frank Quattrone and former Enron leader Andrew Fastow in criminal cases.
[August 25, 2005, 15:55]
US Report: Experts - MS paying fortune in legal fees
News A lawyer involved in one of the cases against Microsoft estimated the total monthly bill for litigation was costing the company between $3.5 and $5 million. Yet another lawyer involved in a case against Microsoft said the company's penchant for...
[September 29, 1998, 15:25]
Microsoft's Sun deal 'will not affect EU appeal'
News One European competition lawyer said that the Court of First Instance, to which Microsoft will make its appeal in 60 days, could view the settlement with Sun as proof that the Competition Commission's concerns over the future implications of...
[April 5, 2004, 17:20]
Coalition to oppose Google Books settlement
News The coalition, which is expected to be announced in a couple of weeks, will be co-led by antitrust lawyer Gary Reback, Brantley said. On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that Scott Gant, a lawyer with Boies, Schiller & Flexner, would act on...
[August 21, 2009, 12:38]
Microsoft tries to block speedy appeal
News Rich Gray, a Silicon Valley lawyer watching the trial, described Microsoft's petition as "smart lawyering. If the case isn't settled, the government is going to have to go to a trial-type hearing on remedies, and they need to have an experienced...
[July 23, 2001, 10:53]
Antitrust talks all above board, says Microsoft
News The hearing, which could put James in the hot seat for the settlement he cut with Microsoft, "has nothing to do with" the Tunney Act proceeding, said Emmett Stanton, an antitrust lawyer with Fenwick & West in Palo Alto, California.
[December 11, 2001, 12:29]
Let the Microsoft peace talks begin
News The states can give up potential claims for money damages and in the process they will also be giving up the money damages claims of citizens within their states," said the lawyer. So if the 19 states in the case agree as part of a settlement to...
[November 30, 1999, 15:53]
Houck: DoJ will beat Microsoft
News Externally, he's made some nice presentations in court and to the press," said Harvey Saferstein, an antitrust lawyer with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in Los Angeles. My guess is that he's a very able lawyer and will be missed.
[October 4, 1999, 9:20]
Patent campaigners make government breakthrough
Talkback The UKPO understands neither software nor innovation and is sleepwalking into a US style tar pit of companies using patent portfolio's aggressively to cripple smaller or innovative rivals with court battles, and where it is no longer possible to...
[December 15, 2004, 11:32]
Mediator appointed in MS antitrust case
News What's more, he is not going to need much time to prepare for the case, according to a lawyer close to the government team who said Judge Posner's expertise in economics would help him quickly pierce to the heart of the dispute between Microsoft...
[November 22, 1999, 8:35]
Developers warned over OOXML patent risk
News David Vaile, executive director of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at the University of New South Wales, said that Microsoft participants at a recent symposium on the issue found it challenging to explain how an ordinary person "or even an...
[February 14, 2008, 11:56]
Microsoft case misses settlement deadline
News This mediation has a much greater shot of resolving this case than the prior one," said Hillard Sterling, an antitrust lawyer with Gordon & Glickson in Chicago. The most well-respected, most vigorous appellate judge in the antitrust realm couldn't...
[October 15, 2001, 9:09]
Public blasts Microsoft antitrust settlement
News She has been put in an awkward position, because not everyone is a party to the settlement," said Emmett Stanton, an antitrust lawyer with Fenwick & West in Palo Alto, California. There's nothing routine about this case," said Rich Gray, a Silicon...
[February 8, 2002, 8:45]
