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Intel to pay in chip patent dispute
News Intel has agreed to pay at least $300m to settle a long-running legal dispute with Intergraph, which at one time developed its own microprocessor for high-end workstations, the companies said in a joint release.
[April 16, 2002, 11:39]
HP workers set dates for strikes
Blog Unite union members working as mobile engineers at HP CDS will hold a one-day strike on Monday, 7 December, in a dispute over job transfers, pay and pensions. The dispute centres on HP's transfer of the engineers to a new division.
[December 3, 2009, 18:57]
Oracle price hike irks customers
News The dispute relates to how Oracle charges its customers when they transfer large amounts of data, known as batch feeds, to the Oracle database. Oracle acknowledged that they are talking to some customers about these licensing fees, but they said...
[March 20, 2002, 9:38]
Court: Itanium infringes patents
News The ruling is the culmination of the trial phase of a bitter, multi-issue dispute, dating back to 1997. We are pleased that the company's long-standing dispute with Intel has concluded with yet another significant return from the company's...
[October 11, 2002, 7:40]
Court rules in Microsoft's favour on patents
News When a jury earlier this year ordered Redmond to pay Alcatel-Lucent Technologies $1.5bn in a patent dispute over MP3 audio technology used in Windows, the company noted that about half of the damages were calculated based on overseas sales of...
[May 1, 2007, 8:55]
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. The latest example of this behavior is the filing of the present action despite an agreement the parties...
[March 16, 2006, 9:50]
No room for cybersquatters - Part II
News The fees that the complaining party would pay are between $1,000 and $3,000, and the dispute can be resolved in less than 60 days. Namely, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved its Uniform Domain Name Dispute...
[March 27, 2000, 12:23]
Unite to hold strike ballot at HP
News HP, which has around 18,000 employees in the UK, said in a statement that it is keen to try and resolve the dispute. The union is in the midst of a separate IT services worker dispute with Fujitsu Services over proposed pension cuts.
[October 29, 2009, 11:57]
Intergraph sues PC giants over Pentium
News Subsequently, the first ripples of what would become a massive dispute between Intergraph and Intel appeared. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the same court that will hear the current dispute.
[December 18, 2002, 16:25]
RIM creates patent 'workaround'
News Patent Trademark office asked that four of the five patents in dispute be reexamined -- a process that could take years. RIM, which helped popularise mobile emailing with its thumb-operated BlackBerry, rattled investors earlier this month with news...
[June 17, 2005, 10:30]
Cybersquatting profits from online brands
News The main problem with the dispute resolution process with dot-com names is that the innocent party has to put up a significant amount of money, over $1,000, and then the onus is on us to prove that all the elements are there," said Paton.
[January 16, 2003, 9:07]
Microsoft must pay $1.5bn in MP3 patent case
News A federal jury in San Diego has ordered Microsoft to pay $1.5bn to Alcatel-Lucent in a patent dispute over MP3 audio technology used in Windows. Leibnitz earlier represented Dolby Labs in a patent dispute over whether one of Dolby's audio codecs...
[February 23, 2007, 7:52]
Unable to download
Member Review So I will dispute my payment with my credit card company. I refuse to pay for support. Paid for AntiVirus 2004 upgrade. Would not allow me to download (would not connect to Norton server). Online support did not address problem.
[April 19, 2004, 15:28]
Fujitsu Services settles union dispute
News The dispute was over redundancy rights, union recognition and better pay. A dispute between Unite the Union (formerly Amicus) and Fujitsu Services ended on Wednesday, with members of the union agreeing to work normally and the management agreeing...
[September 13, 2007, 14:43]
Fujitsu staff to strike again
News The dispute revolves around redundancy rights, better pay and union recognition. Staff at Fujitsu Services will go on strike again this week, after the collapse of arbitration talks aimed at ending a long-running dispute between members of the...
[March 5, 2007, 12:34]
Domain name price hikes attacked
News That requirement has politicized the dispute, with registrars that sell .com domains and must pay the higher prices trying to gain ground in Washington against VeriSign, which has a far more muscular lobbying operation.
[June 8, 2006, 8:40]
Network Solutions agrees to domain deal
News Settling a long-running dispute, Network Solutions and the US Commerce Department agreed on a deal that lets the company retain control of its database of Internet addresses but requires it to sell addresses to competitors at a steep discount.
[September 29, 1999, 12:12]
EDS boss defends government contract record
News An overwhelming majority of workers at the agency — 93.5 percent — last week voted to go on strike over a pay dispute. It is now facing the prospect of seeing disruption in a very sensitive area, as soldiers, sailors and airmen could go unpaid if...
[January 8, 2007, 14:21]
Single European patent moves closer to fruition
News One suggestion has been that you publish in your own language and pay for translation at the point of dispute, but that's really just postponing the problem. Intellectual property (IP) experts praised the agreement, announced on Friday by the...
[December 7, 2009, 16:19]
Striking Fujitsu Services staff return to work
News The dispute revolves around redundancy rights, better pay and union recognition. The dispute between Fujitsu Services management and staff has been running since the end of 2006. The union says it had agreed to shift its stance on one of these...
[March 20, 2007, 15:51]
