Korean Coke addict loses suit against Coca-Cola
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A South Korean Coke addict has lost a legal suit seeking 100,000 dollars in damages for his decayed teeth from multinational soft-drink giant Coca-Cola Bottling, court officials said Saturday.
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NEW YORK, October 19  - The global non-alcoholic beverage giant, Coca-Cola Company (KO.NYS), has reached an agreement with the European Union authorities to settle the antitrust investigations that have been on for the past five years.
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South Korea has confirmed they will lodge an appeal with sport&#39;s supreme legal body over scoring errors at the Olympic gymnastics tournament which robbed them of a gold medal.
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Japan's top court has a damages suit brought by South Koreans forced to work as sex slaves or soldiers by the Japanese Imperial Army, saying their suffering in World War II cannot be compensated under the post-war constitution.
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ATLANTA -- A federal jury deliberating the fate of a former Coca-Cola secretary charged with conspiring to steal trade secrets from the beverage maker in an effort to sell them to Pepsi told a judge Thursday it is unable to make a decision.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft may have to pull its Office suite from the shelves in South Korea as a result of losing a patent lawsuit in that country, according to published reports. Several news outlets reported Monday that a South Korean Supreme Court ruling on Friday refused a request from Microsoft that patents obtained by Hankuk Aviation University professor Lee Keung-Haie in 1997 be nullified. The decision strengthens the case of Lee and the company acting as his agent, called P and IB, which filed for damages against Microsoft in 2000 for infringing on Lee's patents, according to a report by the Agence France-Presse . Now that Microsoft's request has been struck down, P and IB leader Kim Kil-Hae said the company and Lee have a better chance at winning damages in their lawsuit and also in stopping the sale of the version of Office that includes the patented technology, according to a report by the AFP. Lee and P and IB are seeking damages of 70 billion won, or about $75 million. In an e-mailed statement through its public relations firm, Microsoft said it does not anticipate any interruption in the sales of Office in Korea, and is positive about its chance in the current infringement case that is still pending. Lee and P and IB filed suit against Microsoft in 2000 for infringing on Lee's patents for technologies that automatically switch the input mode of Office between the Korean and English languages. That case remains unsettled in an appeals court after Microsoft filed a separate lawsuit attempting to invalidate Lee's patents. The patent dispute is just one of Microsoft's legal woes in South Korea. In May,Â South Korea ruled against MicrosoftÂ in an antitrust case, forcing the company to sell a version of its Windows OS without its media player and instant-messaging programs after finding that their inclusion breached antitrust laws. An antitrust case in Europe also has not gone well for the Redmond, Washington, software vendor. In March 2004, the European Commission ruled that Microsoft must sell Windows without media player software in the European Union to compete fairly with rivals there. The ruling alsoÂ ordered Microsoft to provide informationÂ that allows rival server software vendors to design server products that interoperate well with Windows PCs. Microsoft is still embroiled in its legal battle with the Commission and continues to file documents to prove it is complying with the antitrust ruling. The Commission fined Microsoft $357 million in July for failing to comply with the antitrust order, and could face more fines of up to $3 million per day if it does not meet the Commission's latest deadline to prove compliance.
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Tobacco companies were &quot;breathing a multi-billion dollar sigh of relief&quot; after an Australian court threw out a class action seeking compensation for illness caused by smoking, the plaintiff's lawyer said.
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The South Korean gymnast who lost the all-around title to Paul Hamm because of a scoring error filed an appeal Sunday with a sports arbitration panel, asking it to help him get the gold medal.
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HONG KONG - It was not the best legal defense strategy: A Hong Kong man appeared in court on drug charges wearing a T-shirt that said "cocaine" and drew a stern rebuke from the magistrate, a newspaper reported Thursday.
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Coca-Cola Co.  said on Monday  that it had reached an agreement under which several of its  bottlers would dismiss two lawsuits against the world's largest  soft-drink company and two of its largest bottlers.
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Coca-Cola Co.  said on Monday that it had reached an agreement under which several of its bottlers would dismiss two lawsuits against the world's largest soft-drink company and two of its largest bottlers.
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South Korea have yet to file an appeal to sport&#39;s supreme legal body asking it to award Yang Tae-young the Olympic gymnastics all-round gold medal after a scoring error robbed him off the title last week.
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A District of Columbia judge on Monday lost his $54 million lawsuit against a dry-cleaning shop that misplaced his pants.
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The South Korean gymnast who lost the all-around title to Paul Hamm because of a scoring error filed an appeal Sunday with a sports arbitration panel asking it to help him get a gold medal.
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US software giant Microsoft has lost a legal battle with a South Korean firm over its flagship Office software, officials have said.
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Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. , the world's largest soft-drink distributor, will cut 3,500 jobs after posting its worst loss in at least 10 years on a $2.9 billion reduction in the value of its North American unit.
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The European Union's second-highest court dismissed on Tuesday a case taken by Czech brewer Budejovicky against its U.S. rival Anheuser-Busch  over the use of trademarks such as Budweiser.