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Microsoft, Nikon sign patent-sharing deal
news.cnet.com — Microsoft and Nikon have signed a cross-licensing deal that gives each company access to the other's patents. The deal is one of a growing list from Microsoft, which has been seeking to establish the heft and significance of its intellectual property effort.
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- schestowitz, on 08/28/2008, -7/+1FTA: "Detailed terms of the Nikon deal weren't disclosed, but the companies said Nikon is compensating Microsoft through the alliance."
So Microsoft's new business model is intellectual monopolies now that sales are dropping.
Microsoft sees slide in profits
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7366106.stm
Oh, and before people say that Microsoft's business isn't declining:
Microfraud?
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| THE ALLEGATIONS WERE shocking: For years, Microsoft has systematically
| distorted its profit figures in an effort to consistently beat Wall Street
| expectations and keep its stock price steadily rising. The false reports
| would violate SEC regulations, and amount to outright fraud.
|
| More shocking was the source of the allegations: Microsoft's chief of
| internal audits, Charlie Pancerzewski, who reported directly to the company's
| chief financial officer.
|
| Most shocking of all was what happened to Pancerzewski when he reported the
| suspicious bookkeeping to his supervisors, Microsoft CFO Mike Brown and chief
| operating officer Bob Herbold, in the spring of 1995. Soon afterward,
| Pancerzewski—who for nearly five years had received stellar performance
| evaluations—received his first-ever unsatisfactory one, and was eventually
| forced to resign.
|
| Two months ago, Microsoft quietly settled a lawsuit containing these
| allegations, filed in 1997 by Pancerzewski under the Whistleblowers
| Protection Act. The auditor claimed he was wrongfully terminated after
| telling his supervisors that Microsoft might be breaking securities and tax
| laws. The lawsuit made its tortuous way through several rounds of pretrial
| motions until last fall, when US District Judge Carolyn Dimmick denied
| Microsoft's final plea for summary judgment, finding credible evidence that
| Microsoft may have violated SEC rules, as Pancerzewski alleged. Shortly
| thereafter, Microsoft and Pancerzewski settled out of court. Terms of the
| agreement were sealed, but one source who claims familiarity with the case
| says that Microsoft paid Pancerzewski $4 million.
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Ex-Microsoft Manager Sentenced for Fraud
http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MzM3NjYsLCxo ...- Stonekeeper, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3I've missed the Quotes thing :)
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