licensing
RSS licensingLucent to buy Nexabit Networks
News Details of the settlement are sketchy, but they are thought to include a technology cross-licensing agreement. Lucent Technologies is to buy Nexabit Networks, a maker of terabit switches for high-performance IP (Internet... [28 Jun 1999]
Bristol Technology demands Microsoft compensation
News However, Microsoft argues that a Bristol competitor, MainSoft, accepted the same licensing terms that Bristol rejected. US tool vendor, Bristol Technology, is asking for between $130m and $263m in damages in its... [22 Jun 1999]
Pitney Bowes to sue E-Stamp over alleged patent infringement
News Pitney Bowes claims that the Palo Alto firm is using its technology and has backed out of licensing negotiations and while the company claims that it is continuing to seek common ground with E-Stamp, it is obliged to... [14 Jun 1999]
GTE accused of software piracy
News Computer Software Consultants (CSC) has accused GTE of breaching a software licensing agreement by hiring IMI to provide almost identical software, which it says is based on CSC technology, and then dropping CSC. [09 Jun 1999]
Microsoft denies anti-competitive practices
News Bristol has filed a suit against the software giant for alleged anti-competitive practices, stating that its Windows/Unix interface product is threatened by the terms of Microsoft's licensing agreement. [08 Jun 1999]
Inprise to benefit from Microsoft cash injection
News Microsoft is set to buy $25m of Inprise stock - valued at $4 per share at close of play on Monday - down from a three-year high of around £20 per share - and pay a further $100m as part of a patent cross-licensing... [08 Jun 1999]
UK firms have licences to fill
News Paul Diamond, senior partner at KPMG, said: "Senior managers just don't take ownership of licensing issues. I think there are a number of reasons for this, but one is that they are simply not aware of the benefits and... [07 Jun 1999]
Microsoft offers outsourced BackOffice services
News FutureLink CEO, Cameron Chell, said: "This is a pivotal development in the licensing of software for the ASP industry. Microsoft has launched a pilot scheme to offer hosted BackOffice applications over the Internet. [03 Jun 1999]
Java rivals set to share the spoils
News Judge Whyte ruled Microsoft had infringed Sun's copyrights by failing to comply with the Java licensing agreement. A US judge has made a tentative ruling on the battle over Java between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft. [26 May 1999]
EC frees ISPs from Microsoft clause
News The European Commission (EC) has given Microsoft the all clear, following an investigation into the company's software licensing arrangements with ISPs (Internet service providers). According to a report in the Financial... [12 May 1999]
DTI sets timetable for ecommerce bill
News The main issues were the keys of innocent parties, licensing and the rebuttable presumption of signatures," he told delegates at the conference. The UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has announced a timetable for... [30 Apr 1999]
Sun faces Java challenge from open source developers
News The test suite was developed according to published Java API documentation and is a key part of a campaign - called Project Mauve - by Java developers to bypass Sun's restrictive licensing requirements. [14 Apr 1999]
Microsoft considers opening Windows
News Speaking at the Windows Hardware and Engineering conference in Los Angeles, Ballmer said the firm is considering licensing its operating system (OS) code in response to the popularity of open source OS, Linux. [08 Apr 1999]
Lucent and Epigram draw up home networking standard
News The cross licensing of home networking technology points to the unique relationship between these two companies. Lucent Technologies is working with US start-up Epigram on a standard for the Home Phoneline Networking... [31 Mar 1999]
Ericsson and Qualcomm settle out of court
News The manufacturers have also entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement. Ericsson and Qualcomm yesterday said they have settled their long running dispute over standards for next-generation (3G) mobile phones. [26 Mar 1999]
