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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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