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How search engines rate on privacy

August 13, 2007 News.com asks Google, Yahoo and others to fess up on what they do to protect their users' personal information.In their own words: Search engines on privacy TAGS: Ask.com, search engine, privacy, survey, lawyer, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Lawyers: Vista branding confused even Microsoft

November 28, 2007 Company marketing manager among those unclear about what "Vista capable" means, say lawyers pursuing class action suit. TAGS: plaintiff, lawyer, class action, director of marketing, Microsoft Windows Vista, branding, Seattle, Microsoft Corp., OEM, retailer, Microsoft Windows, operating system, PC, Microsoft Windows XP

Microsoft: EU ruling could come soon

November 14, 2006 Top lawyer tells shareholders the ruling, expected as early as December, could provide "clarity" for industry. TAGS: Brad Smith, shareholder, European Union, antitrust, Europe, lawyer, Microsoft Corp.

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, attorney, Dr., trial, Redmond, Seattle, agreement, Microsoft Corp., vice president

Microsoft sets Sender ID free

October 23, 2006 The e-mail authentication technology can now be used without fear of a response from Microsoft's intellectual property lawyers. TAGS: Sender ID, e-mail authentication, intellectual property, lawyer, Microsoft Corp., e-mail

Microsoft: Novell deal a milestone despite squabbles

February 9, 2007 Landmark deal could still bring together open-source and commercial software business models, Microsoft lawyer Brad Smith says. TAGS: Brad Smith, Novell Inc., Novell Linux, milestone, certificate, agreement, intellectual property, Linux, lawyer, Microsoft Corp., open source, CEO, letter

Novell boosts legal team with litigation expert

August 6, 2007 Company taps high-powered patent lawyer Eric Acker, who has a formidable history, including 45 jury trials as a federal prosecutor. TAGS: Novell Inc., litigation, federal prosecutor, lawyer, patent, law firm, Microsoft Corp.

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.

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, lawsuit, San Francisco, portion, attorney, lawyer, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

May 14, 2007 Top Microsoft lawyer alleges in a magazine interview that the Linux kernel and OpenOffice.org violate hundreds of the company's patents. TAGS: patent, open-source software, open source, Linux kernel, OpenOffice.org, Linux, Steve Ballmer, intellectual property, Novell Inc., Red Hat Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., lawyer, article

Fighting for patent property

March 28, 2006 Patents mean big money for big tech companies, so tech titans fight long and hard to preserve them. TAGS: patent, Hynix Semiconductor Inc., lawyer, Microsoft Corp.

Lawsuit seeks to block Google settlement

May 12, 2006 Suit argues that affected advertisers would not be compensated enough by $90 million click fraud settlement. TAGS: settlement, click fraud, proposed settlement, advertiser, Arkansas, plaintiff, lawsuit, class action, lawyer, Google Inc., California, search engine, Microsoft Corp.

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, extension, protocol, government, attorney, lawyer, Microsoft Corp., conference, Microsoft Windows

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, Texas, lawyer, attorney, Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc.

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, lawyer, attorney, intellectual property, Texas, Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Intel

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.

Week in review: Microsoft's kick in the patents

February 23, 2007 While Microsoft finds itself in a dogfight over patents, battles over the iPhone trademark and satellite radio settle down. TAGS: American Software, Alcatel, patent, damage, Week in review, AT&T Corp., intellectual property, Lucent Technologies Inc., reader, U.S., lawyer, open source, Microsoft Corp., MP3, video, Microsoft Windows

Microsoft gives go-ahead to open-source Web services

September 13, 2006 Company won't assert patents related to 35 Web services specs--a move designed to ease developers' legal concerns. TAGS: Web service, open-source software, patent, open source, open-source community, specification, royalty, standards, Apache Software Foundation, FAQ, GPL, developer, lawyer, concern, XML, Microsoft Corp.

An end run round copyright laws?

August 15, 2006 Legal activist Lawrence Lessig urges LinuxWorld attendees to use Creative Commons as route to "free culture." TAGS: copyright law, culture, lawyer, law, wireless network, Linux, networking, operating system, video, 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, copyright law, attorney, lawyer, Internet search, spokesman, Europe, article, U.S., message, Microsoft Corp.
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