Court rules for Dell, Microsoft in Alcatel-Lucent case
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A U.S. court has ruled that Dell Inc.   personal-organizer products did not infringe a patent  held by Alcatel-Lucent , according to a court  document filed online on Thursday.
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Microsoft gas been ordered by a jury to pay $1.5 billion in damages to Lucent-Alcatel for patent infringement.
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French-American telecoms equipment group  Alcatel-Lucent  said on Monday it had won a contract  from Germany&#39;s VSE NET to build the country&#39;s &quot;first  commercial&quot; WiMAX network in the Saar region bordering France.
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Alcatel and Lucent shareholders today approved the merger of the two companies, clearing one of the last major hurdles for the corporate marriage.
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MicrosoftÂ must pay $1.5 billion in damages to Lucent-Alcatel for infringing on patents for MP3 encoding and decoding technology, a U.S. jury said Thursday.
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(InfoWorld) - Lucent Technologies has averted a potentially embarrassing delay of its shareholder vote on a merger with Alcatel,Â settling two suits by shareholdersÂ who said the deal doesn't maximize shareholder value. Lucent and AlcatelÂ agreed in April to mergeÂ into a global communications vendor that would have about $25 billion in annual revenue. Both companies plan to hold shareholder votes to approve the deal on Thursday. Plaintiffs in Resnick vs. Lucent Technologies Inc. wanted to postpone Lucent's vote, and the company was due at a hearing Wednesday in the Superior Court of New Jersey in Union County to fight that move. Another group of shareholders pursuing a similar suit, Asa R. Maley Trust vs. Lucent, also would have joined the hearing. Now Lucent won't have to face the danger of a legal entanglement the day before its planned vote. Both suits were intended as class actions on behalf of owners of Lucent stock. Terms of the settlement Lucent reached with them will be disclosed later, the company said in a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. The Lucent-Alcatel deal would be one of the biggest shifts yet in the consolidation of both service providers and vendors in the telecommunications industry. Both the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the European Commission have approved the plan, but it still faces opposition from some investment firms and needs the blessing of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. Lucent is based in Murray Hill, New Jersey. The merged company, to be called Alcatel Lucent, would have its headquarters in Alcatel's base of Paris. Â ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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A European court on Wednesday ruled against Microsoft in its long-running antitrust confrontation with the European Commission over the company&#39;s Windows software.
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A U.S. federal jury found that Microsoft Corp infringed on audio patents held by Alcatel-Lucent and should pay $1.52 billion in damages, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
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Kerching! Microsoft is reviewing its legal options after a US court ordered it to pay Alcatel $1.5bn for infringing the French telecoms' company's MP3 technology in Windows.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - AlcatelÂ shareholders have been urged by a French advisory group to reject theÂ proposed merger with Lucent Technologies, citing unfavorable financial and corporate governance terms. Proxinvest, which provides services for institutional investors holding shares in the French company, said strategic aspects of the deal make sense, but that the financial terms appear "quite unfavorable" to Alcatel shareholders and that the corporate governance conditions are "very disappointing." The group is against removing the age limit for the position of chairman, and a rule that a two-thirds majority of directors would be needed to dismiss the chairman or chief executive officer of the combined company. It made its recommendation in a letter to fund managers published on its Web site earlier this week. Proxinvest's views are at odds with that of a U.S. advisory group, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), which supports the deal. Lucent and Alcatel shareholders are due to vote on the merger Sept. 7. In the U.S., meanwhile, a group of shareholders is trying to block the Lucent shareholder vote, arguing that the company's board of directors is failing to maximize shareholder value. A New Jersey Superior Court judge will consider on Sept. 6 whether to grant an injunction blocking the vote, according to a filing by Lucent with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. Lucent called the action without merit. The European Commission and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission have approved the merger, which was announced in April. The networking equipment vendors, which sell optical core switches, DSLAMs (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers) and other networking gear, would have had combined revenue of $25 billion for 2005. If the merger goes ahead, Lucent Chairman and CEO Pat Russo will become CEO of the company, which would be renamed Alcatel Lucent. Serge Tchuruk, chairman and CEO of Alcatel, would become its non-executive chairman. The merger would create a networking giant that will compete with Siemens and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, among others. Lucent has a strong foothold in North America, while Alcatel has a strong customer base in Europe. The proposed merger comes after increased competition has put pressure on both companies' bottom lines. For its fiscal third quarter ending June 30,Â Lucent reported revenueÂ of $2.04 billion, compared with $2.14 billion in the previous quarter and $2.34 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Lucent attributed the decline to slower sales in North America and China. Alcatel'sÂ net income droppedÂ for its second quarter to â¬180 million ($226 million as of June 30, the last day of the period reported) from â¬196 million a year earlier. It's net revenue increased to â¬3.4 billion, from â¬3.1 billion a year earlier.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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A U.S. federal jury found that Microsoft Corp. infringed audio patents held by Alcatel-Lucent and should pay $1.52 billion in damages, the No. 1 software maker said on Thursday.
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A judge dismisses one of Alcatel-Lucent's patent-infringement claims against Microsoft.
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Network equipment companies Alcatel SA   and Lucent Technologies Inc.  said on  Thursday they had completed their merger, creating one of the  world's biggest suppliers of network equipment for mobile  phones and high-speed Internet communications.
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A U.S. court has ruled that Dell Inc.   personal-organizer products did not infringe a patent  held by Alcatel-Lucent , according to a court  document filed on Thursday.
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Microsoft Corp. must pay $1.52 billion in damages to telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA for violating two patents related to digital music, a federal jury ruled Thursday.
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(InfoWorld) - MicrosoftÂ and newly merged Alcatel-LucentÂ have partnered to deliver Internet-based television technology to Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), the companies said Thursday. But it's not business as usual: the two partners could be headed to court over alleged patent infringements and, depending on the outcome of their dispute, may choose to go their separate ways. SingTel is the second Asian carrier to test Microsoft's IPTV (Internet Protocol television) software, bringing the total number of operators either trialing or commercially deploying the technology to 16. The deal is part of a partnership agreed in 2005 through which Alcatel-Lucent sells the Microsoft IPTV platform to smaller network operators, according to Ed Graczyk, director of marketing in the Microsoft TV unit. "We're selling our platform directly to around three dozen tier-one carriers and partnering with Alcatel-Lucent to sell to the tier-two and tier-three operators," Graczyk said in an interview on the sidelines of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World conference and exhibition in Hong Kong. The continued scope of that partnership, however, is now as fuzzy as the initial IPTV technology that Microsoft delivered to the first carrier customers of its early adopter program. In November,Â Alcatel filed lawsuits against MicrosoftÂ for several alleged patent infringements. The IPTV patents in question stem from the work of Oracle engineers who had developed fast-forward and rewind features for its video server technology. The patents were sold to a company Alcatel later acquired. Alcatel now maintains that some of the technology developed by the Oracle engineers has resurfaced in Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software as a result of several members of the original development team joining the U.S. software company. Both Alcatel and Lucent had developed IPTV expertise prior to their merger. Together, they now appear keen to stake their own claim. "We can offer carriers choice," John Giere, chief marketing officer at Alcatel-Lucent, said during an interview in Hong Kong. "We can provide the Microsoft solution if that is what carriers want. But with our technology, we can also provide an open system with open interfaces. Many operators don't want to be overly dependent on Microsoft, which offers a proprietary system." Even after forming its partnership with Microsoft in 2005, Alcatel continued to fund its Open Media Platform (OMP), which it acquired from iMagicTV Inc. The technology is deployed by a number of operators including Free in France and Telecom Italia. Another IPTV system in the Alcatel-Lucent camp is the MyViewTV platform developed in conjunction with Spain's TelefÃ³nica SA. Around 400,000 consumers are currently using the company's IPTV systems. The SingTel project is based on a combination of Alcatel-Lucent's services integration system and the Microsoft IPTV platform. It will include testing of broadcast TV and VOD (video on demand), with content featuring high-definition quality picture resolution.
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A European Union court rules on Monday  whether Microsoft abused its near-monopoly on computer  operating systems to push out rivals, in a protracted case that  has major implications on the EU&#39;s power to enforce antitrust  policy.