Company suing OLPC asked for $20 million
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A company claims that the OLPC Association infringued a patent on a keyboard and is asking for $20 to settle the case.
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IBM is being sued by a group of more than 90 current and former residents of Endicott, N.Y. who allege that the company's manufacturing operations in the area caused environmental contamination that made them sick. IBM disputes the allegations.
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In its continuing efforts to stop piracy of its software, Microsoft said Tuesday it had filed another twenty lawsuits in nine states. The Redmond company said the lawsuits were filed for various reasons, including the manufacture and distribution of pirated software.
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(InfoWorld) - LG ElectronicsÂ has filed a lawsuit against the world's largest contract manufacturer of laptop PCs over the infringement of four patents related to DVD (digital video disc) technology, the company said Wednesday. The South Korean electronics maker is seeking an injunction against Taiwan's Quanta Computer to put a stop to its use of the technology, as well as cash compensation. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin on July 3, LG said. LG alleged that Quanta has been using the infringing technology to produce laptop PCs that have been supplied to U.S. computer vendors. Quanta counts Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and a number of other PC vendors among its customers. The two companies have another outstanding lawsuit in the U.S. on which LG expects a decision in the first half of 2008. LG sued Quanta in the U.S. District Court of Northern California in 2000 over the alleged infringement of PC-related patents. Originally, the trial court decided in favor of Quanta, but the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned the verdict. LG said it expects the ruling in this case to be in its favor. Quanta declined to immediately comment on the lawsuit. LG holds 5,000 international patents on DVD technologies, it said.
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The agency had accused an executive at Brightpoint Inc. of overstating the companyâs actual earnings through improper use of an insurance policy.
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Canadian police have charged a former executive of Philip Services Corp. with defrauding the industrial cleaning and metals recycling company of $20 million in 1996 and 1997.
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By Dave Black  A development company was ordered to pay more than pounds 17,000 yesterday after admitting a second offence of allowing sewage effluent from a flagship housing project to pollute a Northumberland river.
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Blog: Company is also in talks with the group that has sued it, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
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The US Federal Trade Commission filed a legal complaint last week against two companies that are believed to have infected computers with spyware and pop-up advertising and then attempted to sell their ownersâ anti-spyware software.
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A lawsuit filed this week claims that Google, Yahoo, AOL, Amazon.com, Borders and IAC/InteractiveCorp violated a patent for an automatic message routing system held by Polaris IP.
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icrosoft, which has agreed to pay $1.8 billion to settle consumer antitrust suits, has been sued by California munciplaties, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, over claims that the company overcharged them for its Windows software.
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A Hollywood producer is suing the makers of The Lord of the Rings movies for $20m (£10.9m) in royalties.
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A US jury found that Microsoft infringed audio patents held by the world's biggest software maker Alcatel-Lucent.   Microsoft has been ordered to pay Pounds 778m in damages, however the firm says it may appeal the ruling.   It says the verdict is unsupported by the law or the facts.
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Microsoft (MSFT:Nasdaq - news - research) is being sued by several California cities and counties, which accuse the company of charging inflated prices due to its alleged monopoly control of the PC operating system market.
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The work may have been subcontracted to another firm.
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LOS ANGELES  - Producer Saul Zaentz on Thursday filed a $20 million lawsuit against Walt Disney Co. and its Miramax Films unit, accusing them of failing to share profits from his 1996 best picture Oscar winner "The English Patient."
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Sold trade secrets for $20, Feds allege