Rambus Settles Backdating Suit
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Rambus will pay $18 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of shareholders.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission approved settlements with Brocade Communications Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Mercury Interactive Corp. , the first companies to be fined since the government's crackdown on illegal stock options backdating began more than a year ago.
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced a settlement with one of its disc replication partners, after the company admitted it had breached agreements with Microsoft by unlawfully producing the Redmond company's server software.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. agreed to a $14.5 million settlement in the California civil lawsuit related to the company's spying scandal.
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A lawsuit in which UK mobile phones maker Sendo had accused Microsoft of stealing its technology and customers is settled.
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International Business Machines Corp. settled a federal class-action lawsuit Wednesday, agreeing to pay a total of $65 million to 32,000 technology workers who claimed the company illegally withheld overtime pay.
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The data aggregator said that it has reached a deal to settle a class-action suit filed by shareholders over the massive data breach the company disclosed in early 2005.
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Illumina settles its disputes about patents with Affymetrix.
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Research In Motion Ltd.    and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.  have  settled a lawsuit in which RIM alleged the South Korean  electronics giant had infringed on its well-known BlackBerry  trademark with its competing BlackJack smartphone.
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Research In Motion and Samsung have resolved a lawsuit in which RIM claimed Samsung misled users about e-mail capabilities in its BlackJack smart phone.
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IBM on Wednesday said it has settled portions of an ongoing lawsuit related to its pension plan and said the potential liability for the other claims that remain on appeal is capped at $1.
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By Bob Mims, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 8--Samsung will pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit filed by 50  states, including Utah, over the alleged fixing of prices for computer memory  chips.   The bulk of the settlement, $80 million, goes directly to consumers.
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Two companies, a door manufacturer and a dental laboratory network, have agreed to pay tens of thousands of dollars to settle Business Software Alliance (BSA) claims that they had unlicensed software on their computers.TruStile Doors, a manufacturer of residential and commercial doors based in Denver, has agreed to pay $92,500 to settle BSA claims that it had unlicensed copies of Microsoft and Symantec software on its computers, the BSA said Monday.The company has developed a software license management program, according to a BSA news release.Sentage, a national network of dental laboratories and provider of other dental services, based in Minneapolis, has agreed to pay $80,000 to settle claims that it had unlicensed copies of Microsoft and Symantec software on its computers.Both companies also agreed to delete all unlicensed copies of software installed on their computers, acquire any necessary replacement licenses, and implement stronger software license management practices, the BSA said.BSA wants the settlements to &quot;remind businesses of all industries about the high price of infringement and the importance of software compliance,&quot; Jenny Blank, BSA&#39;s senior director of legal affairs, said in a statement.BSA offers rewards of up to $1 million for qualifying reports of unlicensed software, although actual awards are often much less.
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The Business Software Alliance scores a record settlement in a copyright infringement case.
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Bankrupt auto parts maker Delphi Corp   said on Friday it has settled class action lawsuits  by shareholders and employees that grew out of financial  restatements that were the subject of civil fraud charges the  company settled last year.
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(InfoWorld) - U.S. government regulators will require Rambus to license its DRAM (dynamic RAM) chips to other vendors, and will cap the royalty fees Rambus can charge to both current and future DRAM manufacturers, according to an announcement Monday by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The order "is designed to remedy the effects of theÂ unlawful monopolyÂ Rambus established in the markets for four computer memory technologies that have been incorporated into industry standards," the FTC said in a release. In order to ensure that other equipment makers can freely use the technology, the FTC will also require Rambus to hire an FTC-approved compliance officer to ensure that Rambus is honest in revealing its patents to standard-setting bodies. The announcement followed allegations that Rambus convinced industry groups to declare a standard technology for the memory used in PCs, servers, printers and cameras without admitting that it owned the patents to those technologies. When the groups announced the standards, Rambus had enormous leverage over the entire industry. Rambus executives are scheduled to discuss the ruling in a conference call with reporters at 10 a.m. ET on Monday.
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Blog: One of the many companies defending itself against a patent lawsuit filed by Visto has settled for an undisclosed amount.