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Sun After MS Trade Secrets, Says MS
News Sun's complaint is based on their desire to gain access to our technical trade secrets," said John Frank, director of law and corporate affairs at Microsoft (Europe, Middle East and Africa), in a published statement.
[August 3, 2000, 16:27]
Ex-HP Exec Pleads Guilty To IBM Trade-secrets Theft
News A former HP vice president pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets while he worked for IBM and admitted sharing the data with HP, the US Department of Justice said on Friday. Atul Malhotra, of Santa Barbara, California, pleaded guilty in San Jose...
[July 14, 2008, 10:37]
Apple Says Trade Secrets Posted Online
News The suit does not name the sites where the images were allegedly posted, but several Apple rumour sites regularly trade in publishing information Apple considers confidential. The suit says also that Apple believes the person responsible has...
[August 3, 2000, 9:08]
Broadcom Hits Back At Qualcomm's Latest Suit
News Broadcom has hit back at claims by rival Qualcomm that it had misappropriated trade secrets and infringed the company's patents. According to Qualcomm, Broadcom used Qualcomm's trade secrets to compete unfairly in the sales of W-CDMA chipsets.
[March 31, 2006, 17:30]
IBM Denies Unix Theft Charges
News IBM has denied SCO Group's allegations that it misappropriated Unix trade secrets, but Big Blue isn't giving hints about what its eventual strategy will be for battling the lawsuit. SCO sued IBM in March, alleging that Big Blue had misappropriated...
[May 2, 2003, 7:36]
Adobe Sues Site Over Photoshop Piece
News Adobe Systems is suing Macintosh News Network, a Mac-focused Web site, for misappropriation of trade secrets after MacNN ran details of Adobe's forthcoming Photoshop 6 and ImageReady 3 graphics packages.
[June 15, 2000, 10:01]
SCO Unveils Code 'evidence'
Talkback Analysis of Linux Code that SCO Alleges Is In Violation Of Their Copyright and Trade Secrets.http://perens.com/Articles/SCOCopiedCode.html No violation of SCO's copyright or trade secrets is taking place.
[August 19, 2003, 19:27]
IBM Adopts Fighting Talk Over SCO Unix Suit
News IBM began hitting back on Friday against a SCO Group lawsuit that charges it with misappropriating Unix trade secrets and using them in Linux. The suit alleges that IBM misappropriated SCO trade secrets, interfered with business, breached its...
[March 10, 2003, 8:21]
HP Faces Claims Of Spying On Dell
News A former HP executive accused by the company of stealing trade secrets is now saying that he was instructed by the company's management to spy on rival Dell. While still employed by HP, these former high-level employees and their co-conspirators...
[January 25, 2007, 7:59]
Executive Faces Jail After Admitting IP Theft
News A former software executive's guilty plea to charges of breaking into a rival's computers and stealing trade secrets has offered a rare glimpse into the world of corporate espionage. John O'Neil, former chief executive of Business Engine Software...
[December 12, 2005, 14:50]
Microsoft Beefs Up Protection For PC Makers
News Microsoft is again expanding the amount of legal protection it offers partners, adding coverage for trade secrets claims as well as partial indemnification for smaller computer makers. Under new changes expected to be announced on Thursday...
[June 23, 2005, 9:40]
Dell Calls On HP To Investigate Spying Charges
News A corporate shoving match has begun between HP and Dell following new allegations that HP robbed Dell of trade secrets. Kamb said in legal documents filed in January that in 2002 HP paid a former Dell executive to snatch trade secrets about Dell's...
[June 4, 2007, 8:25]
SCO Admits Business Risks Of IBM Lawsuit
News SCO Group warned in a regulatory filing that its billion-dollar lawsuit alleging that IBM misappropriated trade secrets will be costly and could alienate others in the computing industry. SCO sued IBM in March, alleging IBM misappropriated trade...
[April 1, 2003, 7:43]
Symantec Sues Microsoft Over Storage Tech
News Symantec has launched a suit charging Microsoft with misappropriating its trade secrets and source code and with violating a licence related to data storage technology. They have used our intellectual property in terms of trade secrets and source...
[May 19, 2006, 9:10]
2005: Apple's 1984?
Talkback ZDNET MICROSOFT MONKEY BOYS OK POSTING OF APPLE TRADE SECRETS BY RUMOR SITE. What would ZDnetUK say if Microsoft trade secrets were posted. 2005: Apple's 1984? Here is what the headline should say:
[January 18, 2005, 16:15]
Developing The All-important Confidentiality Policy
News There's always a danger that a new employee will bring trade secrets with them from their previous employer, which could potentially undermine the integrity of the new employer's intellectual property.
[January 13, 2003, 14:24]
Intel Backs Up Apple In Court
News The potential conflict between trade secrets and First Amendment rights intensified earlier this week as Intel, Genentech and the Business Software Alliance (BSA) filed court briefs in support of Apple.
[April 29, 2005, 10:00]
Qualcomm Launches Third Suit Against Broadcom
News The complaint was filed in a federal court in San Diego, and alleges that Broadcom misappropriated trade secrets concerning Qualcomm's "development and marketing of W-CDMA baseband integrated circuit products and the multimedia capabilities of...
[March 29, 2006, 16:45]
Viruses, Adware And Spyware, Oh My!
White Papers In given instances, a company might seek to protect what it considers to be its trade secrets. However, to the extent spyware caused sufficient information underlying those secrets to walk out the company's door, and if the company did not...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Yahoo Accused Of Poaching Speech Engineers
News A California court has temporarily barred about a dozen engineers hired by Yahoo from working on interactive speech technology at the search engine after the company they recently left filed a lawsuit accusing Yahoo of trying to steal trade secrets.
[September 30, 2005, 10:40]
