Judge slaps Microsoft with $25m fine top-up
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| Microsoft has been ordered to pay an additional $25m to a tiny digital
| rights management company for "litigation misconduct" during a patent
| case with fellow defendant Autodesk.
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| A US judge has found Microsoft guilty of acting in bad faith during its
| case with z4 Technologies, by "burying" vital evidence that could have
| helped z4, and of attempting to overwork the court and potentially mislead
| the jury. Microsoft's actions indicated it felt z4 was a "small and
| irrelevant company that was not worthy of Microsoft's time and
| attention," the judge said. Microsoft must now pay z4 $140m -
| Microsoft's second highest patent penalty (Eolas is first on $521m).
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/08/24/microsoft_e4_patents/
The same bastards have begun erasing employee E-mails. Surely, they
anticipate more legal onslaughts that have evidence in correspondence.
Again, this reminds me of the Halloween Documents, which Microsoft wants to
bury.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/
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