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Microsoft's lawyers will be busy in the next few months
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| But thereâs been relatively little coverage
| as of late about whatâs going on with the
| Novell antitrust suit filed in 2004 against
| Microsoft over WordPefect. In June 2005, the
| trial court granted Microsoftâs motion to
| dismiss four of six claims of the complaint.
| Both parties appealed, and in October 2007,
| the court of appeals affirmed the decision
| of the trial court, and remanded the case to
| that court for further proceedings. Fact
| discovery has closed and summary judgment
| motions were filed in October 2009
|
| The latest is that a hearing has been set
| for January 22, 2010, before Judge Motz in
| the Federal District Court in Baltimore, to
| present oral arguments on Microsoftâs motion
| for summary judgment, a Microsoft
| spokesperson told me late last week.
|
| The 10-Q also mentions âover 50 other patent
| infringement cases pending against
| Microsoft, 10 of which are set for trial in
| fiscal year 2010,â Among those on the list:
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoftâs 10-Q notes that as of September
| 30, 2009, Microsoft had accrued aggregate
| liabilities of $700 million and $400 million
| in other long-term liabilities fo all of the
| contingent cases described above.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4372
Recent:
Microsoft Legal Eagles Bit By Recession Bug
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| There's no indication if the 450 lawyers who
| were axed are part of the 5K that Microsoft
| was going to let go, but I'm guessing it is.
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http://mcpmag.com/blogs/certifiable/2009/10/ms-legal-eagles.aspx
Microsoft cuts back legal budget by 15% due to recession
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| Microsoft's legal department has seen its
| legal budget cut by 15% over the last 18
| months, leading to a 5% reduction in
| headcount, according to the software giant's
| general counsel, Brad Smith.
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http://www.legalweek.com/legal-week/news/1557545/microsoft-cut-legal-budget-recession
Are there more layoffs in Microsoft's future?
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| That inaudible clause, according to my notes, was âI donât see any potential
| for us to lower our expenses for the rest of this year.â
|
| So does all that mumbo-jumbo translate to no more layoffs? Probably â at
| least for the rest of this calendar year. But not definitivelyâ.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3491
Microsoft profits down by a third
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8166262.stm
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