Microsoft Seeks Legal Action Against Barnes & Noble, Foxconn and Inventec

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing, has made some statements that indicate Microsoft has fired legal shots against Foxconn, Inventec, Barnes & Noble who are associated with manufacturing of Nook color.

According to Microsoft these companies have broken the patent regulations in which some of the patents are owned by the corporate Microsoft who wants profit off those patents. Mr Gutierrez has made further claims that these companies have refused to fullfill the licensing condition and while he has been trying to reach them in regards to the licensing agreements he admits that he was quite unsuccessful in such endeavor. So Microsoft corporation had no other way and decided to pursue legal action against Barnes & Noble, Foxconn and Inventec.

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Legal assistant ends up in a pile of trouble for lawyer impersonation

Friday, January 8th, 2010

A legal assistant who is 34 years old was posing as a real lawyer and taking money from people who thought they were paying legal fees to their lawyer. This case comes from Zambia where James Mushanga of 2066/7 Chawawa Compound has been fully indicted on the charges of offence of an unqualified person trying to practice as real legal advocate. Additionally James Mushanga is facing two counts of getting the money from people by misleading and false pretences.

The details of the case come from the facts that Mushanga on certain dates between the August and September of 2007 knowing he is not advocate took a writ of summons by using his signature and undertaking civil proceedings in the high courts of Lusaka.

While posing as a lawyer Mushanga successfully acquired approx. K9.8 million from the cases he handled and claimed the money was going towards the legal services.

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Clinics starting to help people to be represented in the court

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Zina Butler is one of those people who did not know where to go when some of the county housing officers together with the sheriff and landlord came to her small and subsidized apartment approx. 2 years ago without providing and kind of advance notice.

Butler who is 46 said that she wanted to file lawsuit in which as she explained her Fourth Amendment right was violated. This Fourth Amendment right was supposed to prevent anyone from conducting illegal and not authorized searches and seizures.

However she was unable to find an appropriate attorney and was pretty scared of going through the legal system on her own. She then found a clinic located at the federal courthouse in the district of L.A which was providing assistance to the people who wanted to self represent themselves in the court. This was a blessing from the God, Butler indicated. If there was no clinics like these, people would just run over you, Butler added.

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