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Barney's legal threats end up extinct

November 29, 2006 Lawyers for plump purple Tyrannosaur yield on legal threats against parody Web site and agree to pay a $5,000 fine. TAGS: lawyer, lawsuit, settlement, threat, attorney, Adobe PDF

Courtroom showdown for Microsoft and Google

September 6, 2005 Microsoft lawyers claim Kai-Fu Lee can't be trusted with corporate secrets, while Google says Redmond is off-base. TAGS: Kai-Fu Lee, China, Google Inc., lawyer, Eric Schmidt, Dr., attorney, Redmond, trial, Seattle, vice president, Microsoft Corp., agreement

Google wins patent for search results page design

December 13, 2006 Intellectual-property lawyers say there's no need to fret about infringement lawsuits unless sites are veritable copies. TAGS: patent, search result, invention, intellectual property, Google Inc., design, attorney, protection, GUI, lawyer

Viacom lawyer: YouTube knows it violates copyrights

March 16, 2007 Attorney for media conglomerate says Google doesn't adequately police pirated clips, leaving his company with an unfair burden. TAGS: Viacom Inc., DMCA, YouTube, lawyer, attorney, Google Inc., Washington, service provider, work, video

HP's top lawyer leaves, won't testify

September 28, 2006 Ann Baskins, who spent most of her career there, was implicated in the leak investigation scandal. TAGS: Patricia Dunn, scandal, pretexting, lawyer, attorney, investigation, career, HP, chairman, California, CEO

Lawyer ratings site not without objections

June 5, 2007 Venture capitalists give $14 million to a how-to-find-an-attorney Web site that lists Abraham Lincoln, Clarence Darrow and felons as available for hire. TAGS: lawyer, attorney, Sen., general counsel, U.S., attorney general, profile, Microsoft Corp.

Yahoo click fraud settlement gets final OK

March 27, 2007 The $5 million settlement agreement in a California case releases company from all similar click fraud claims against it. TAGS: click fraud, settlement, Arkansas, Yahoo! Inc., approval, advertiser, attorney, class action, California, lawyer, Google Inc.

AT&T leaks sensitive info in NSA suit

May 26, 2006 AT&T lawyers publish confidential document that's not properly redacted: Simple copy-paste operation makes it readable. TAGS: NSA, AT&T Corp., downtown, San Francisco, lawsuit, portion, attorney, lawyer, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Ex-McAfee lawyer indicted in backdating probe

February 27, 2007 He faces fraud charges related to alleged backdating of stock options when security company was known as Network Associates. TAGS: stock option, Networks Associates Technology Inc., probe, count, McAfee Inc., attorney, prosecutor, lawyer, U.S., San Francisco

How Washington reinvented invention

April 5, 2006 Former White House adviser Brian Kahin raises questions about a controversial patent decision. TAGS: patent, lawyer, Washington, decision, attorney, U.S.

Creating a game? Get a lawyer

September 7, 2007 With patents, copyrights and marketing rights playing an ever bigger role, gamemakers are discovering they need legal hawks just as much as everyone else. TAGS: patent, intellectual property, game company, intellectual property right, online game, terms of service, EULA, lawyer, attorney, games

Attorney: GPLv3 may not bind Microsoft

July 25, 2007 Software giant likely will be able to extricate itself from the implications of the open-source license, lawyer says. TAGS: GPLv3, Free Software Foundation, Novell Inc., GPL, agreement, open source, lawyer, intellectual property, attorney, Microsoft Corp.

Google suffers setback in copyright case

February 13, 2007 Belgian court says newspaper excerpts are a no-no. But experts question whether there will be much of an impact outside Europe. TAGS: Google News, excerpt, court, Google Inc., Belgium, lawyer, copyright law, attorney, Internet search, spokesman, article, Europe, U.S., message, Microsoft Corp.

Life after Napster

December 15, 2006 As a venture capitalist, IP attorney and CEO, Hank Barry has seen a lot in more than three decades working in tech. TAGS: Hank Barry, Napster Inc., entrepreneurial, interim-CEO, venture capital, lawyer, P2P, attorney, law

Barney the dinosaur sued after legal threats

August 24, 2006 After trademark lawyers threaten sites critical of portly purple Tyrannosaur, EFF responds with lawsuit of its own. TAGS: lawyer, attorney, New York

Lawyer insists Microsoft infringed antipiracy patent

March 9, 2006 Texas attorney with patent on antipiracy system appeals ruling that said company's product activation program didn't infringe. TAGS: product activation, patent, invention, Houston, antipiracy, attorney, lawyer, intellectual property, Texas, Intel, Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc.

Judge adds two years to Microsoft antitrust deal

May 17, 2006 Justice Dept. gets settlement term extension due to company's slowness in providing rivals with documentation. TAGS: Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, antitrust, Judge, documentation, protocol, extension, attorney, government, lawyer, Microsoft Corp., conference, Microsoft Windows

Video blogger gets two days to return to prison

September 20, 2006 Josh Wolf now has more time to spread the word about what he calls an assault on First Amendment rights. TAGS: jury, blogger, appeal, evidence, attorney, lawyer, California, San Francisco, video

Microsoft wins suit over antipiracy patent

March 27, 2006 Federal appeals court rejects a Texas lawyer's claim that his patent covers Microsoft's product activation program. TAGS: product activation, patent, antipiracy, Houston, lawyer, Texas, attorney, Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc.

Key to HP's credibility in hands of new lawyers

September 28, 2006 HP has chosen a venerable Philadelphia law firm to conduct an in-house investigation into its leaks scandal. TAGS: law firm, credibility, investigation, Philadelphia, federal prosecutor, prosecutor, attorney, HP, professor, lawyer, e-mail
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