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Microsoft suit alleges ex-worker stole trade secrets
News According to the suit, Mullor allegedly downloaded confidential documents onto his company-issued laptop at some point that were related to the subsequent patent lawsuit, and then allegedly used a file-wiping program and a 'defrag' utility...
[February 2, 2009, 16:43]
Via claims victory in Intel suit
News Earlier this month, an Intel representative indicated that the suit would likely be resolved before the trial. The Taipei, Taiwan-based chipset maker and Intel have settled the final claim in a suit Intel had filed in June 1999.
[December 14, 2001, 16:30]
RIAA pulls file-swap suit against pensioner
News The trade association confirmed on Wednesday that it had withdrawn its suit against Boston-area senior citizen Sarah Ward, who claimed that she could not possibly have been involved in the file-swapping incident attributed to her.
[September 25, 2003, 10:25]
Transmeta hits Intel with patent suit
News Horsely said the suit is not barred by the statute of limitations. At the time, some expected Intel to file suit against Transmeta. Transmeta alleges that Intel violated 10 of its patents and that the intellectual property behind these patents is...
[October 12, 2006, 8:35]
Microsoft-TomTom suit puts open source on guard
News It is our sincere hope that Microsoft will realise that cases like these only burden the software industry and do not serve their customers' best interests," he wrote in a blog post entitled Note on Microsoft TomTom Suit: Calm Down, Hope for the...
[February 27, 2009, 10:00]
Adobe wins Macromedia patent suit
News Adobe filed the suit in August 2000, alleging that the user interface of Macromedia's Flash Web animation tool infringed on Adobe's patent for "tabbed palettes", a feature that allows users of design software to rearrange the work space on the PC...
[May 3, 2002, 9:19]
Judge rules for RIM in patent suit
News RIM said a US District Court judge has ruled that the company's products do not infringe on a Glenayre patent related to battery technology, a charge Atlanta-based Glenayre made in a 1999 suit against RIM.
[July 10, 2001, 9:54]
Xerox slaps USR with patent suit
News USR said it has yet to receive the patent infringement suit and therefore declined to comment. However, a Xerox announcement has said that the suit covers the use of its Unistrokes technology in Pilot products and the separately sold Grafitti...
[May 1, 1997, 16:10]
Iomega slapped with suit by customers
News The suit claims a breach of the Magnuson-Moss Consumer Products Warranties Act and the Delaware Consumer Fraud Act. According to Iomega, the claimed violations were based on alleged breaches of Iomega's Zip, Jaz and Ditto product warranties and on...
[July 25, 1997, 13:44]
Rambus files patent suit against Nvidia
News The suit was filed on Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. In a prepared statement, Rambus's head legal counsel, Tom Lavelle, said that Rambus has been attempting to get Nvidia to purchase a licence for the...
[July 11, 2008, 9:21]
Broadcom hits back at Qualcomm's latest suit
News Qualcomm filed suit against Broadcom earlier this week over disputes relating to W-CDMA, the variant of 3G typically used in much of Europe. Broadcom has hit back at claims by rival Qualcomm that it had misappropriated trade secrets and infringed...
[March 31, 2006, 17:30]
Oracle settles false pricing suit
News Former PeopleSoft employee James A Hicks, who filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Maryland, will receive $17.7m of the settlement, as provided for under the statute. Oracle said it was not aware of the suit at the time it bought...
[October 11, 2006, 8:55]
Five years ago: Xerox slaps USR with patent suit
News USR said it has yet to receive the patent infringement suit and therefore declined to comment. However, a Xerox announcement has said that the suit covers the use of its Unistrokes technology in Pilot products and the separately sold Grafitti...
[April 29, 2002, 7:01]
Judge waves MP3Board suit into court
News The suit seeks damages over a ten-day blackout imposed on MP3Board after its Internet service provider received notice of alleged copyright violations from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
[March 20, 2001, 9:55]
US Report: Remaining states stand firm on DOJ suit
News Holly Zimmer a spokesperson for the Minnesota Attorney General's office agreed that South Carolina's withdrawal has no bearing on the antitrust suit's core legal issues. Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa attorneys general said Monday that they are...
[December 8, 1998, 9:53]
Microsoft wins antitrust suit
News A federal judge has thrown out an antitrust suit brought against Microsoft by the founder of the now-defunct pen-computing company Go Computing, the software giant said on Friday. Frederick Motz granted Microsoft's motion to dismiss Go founder S...
[July 3, 2006, 15:15]
Rambus slapped with FTC antitrust suit
News The Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust suit against Rambus on Wednesday, alleging that the controversial memory-chip designer deliberately deceived the industry by not disclosing its patent plans to a standards body.
[June 20, 2002, 9:40]
IBM adopts fighting talk over SCO Unix suit
News Bruce Perens, an open-source advocate, said the increase in SCO's stock price illustrates his belief that the company's suit is a ploy to make SCO look more enticing to would-be acquirers, potentially including IBM itself.
[March 10, 2003, 8:21]
Ex-Sun worker files discrimination suit
News The suit alleges that Sun refused to rehire any of the laid-off American workers, and that it developed a performance evaluation program that favoured the retention of H-1B visa holders in order to save money.
[March 19, 2003, 13:50]
SCO suit won't stop Linux use, says OSDL
News The suit, filed in Utah's Third District Court in Salt Lake City, accuses Novell of slander and seeks an order requiring the company to sign over all Unix-related copyrights to SCO and withdraw any statements claiming ownership of Unix.
[February 10, 2004, 15:45]
