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You may want to check out the case pending in the Western District of Wisconsin where Fujitsu, LG and Philips have sued Netgear under the following 3 patents: 4975952 (claims 1, 4 and 6), 6018642 (claims 2, 6, and 8), and 6469993 (claims 1, 2, 3, 6, 21, 25, and 26).

Plaintiffs are using the stupid theory that the 802.11 standard infringes the patents therefore Netgear's products also infringe. The plaintiffs have accused more than 100 Netgear products.

Netgear is the sole defendant in the case. Some details from Netgear's SEC filing:

In December 2007, a lawsuit was filed against the Company by Fujitsu Limited, LG Electronics, Inc. and U.S. Philips Corporation in the U.S. District Court, Central District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs allege that the Company infringes U.S. Patent Nos. 6,018,642, 6,469,993 and 4,975,952. The plaintiffs accuse the Companyâ(TM)s wireless networking products compliant with the IEEE 802.11 standards of infringement. The Company filed its answer in the first quarter of 2008. This action is in the discovery phase. The District Court has scheduled an August 15, 2008 claim construction hearing and an April 27, 2009 jury trial.

If you want to fight patent garbage, buy Netgear products.

Yep I saw an SEC page in one of my searches before and used the Cache, but I didn't find anything beyond http://www.secinfo.com/dV5Ff.4fjbj.htm , which only mentions Sony, MS etc because they are PDA makers, not because they bought licenses. I can believe that SONY bought licenses, and would want to outdo competitors, but if they were trying to stifle innovation then they wouldn't have even bought a license surely. All that did was give C3D money and give SONY more toys to play with, to make better products for us. Perhaps they are going to release FMD devices for the next generation, or perhaps we will just be using broadband wireless tech everywhere by then.

Your own bullshit wikipedia article has "citation needed" for your claim of a hoax presentation.

Yet you believe it wholeheartedly.

Sony, Blu-Ray, FMD?

Try Constellation 3D

http://www.secinfo.com/$/SignIn.asp?ReturnTo=%2F%24%2FSEC%2FRegistrant.asp%3FCIK%3D1080290
SEC info about the company.

http://www.digit-life.com/articles/digeststorage2k1jan/index.html
Read down below about Lite-On and C3D. Oh, and who's Lite-On's bestest buddy at the time? (SONY)

http://www.thocp.net/hardware/fmd_rom.htm
1999 first published in september
2001 first license given to Sony
2002 august C3D disappeared
2003 D Data Inc aquired the patents of C3D en will develop HD DMD

They licensed to Sony and folded.
Then some other no name company was sold the patents.

Lol, you. I'm not getting into this again. Microsoft offered $31, Yahoo wanted at least $37. see article

TFA does not say when any negotiations happened. And though TFA is on Yahoo!'s website it's a news article from Reuters. And no, I don't consider a single counter offer as negotiations just as I wouldn't if someone offered me $50 and I impulsively said $100.

They didn't do just that, they took actions that potentially could destroy the company's value, breaching their duty to the shareholders.

As a shareholder, if Yahoo! hadn't taken any steps to drive up the bid price I would have considered it a breach of fiducial duty, as in typical negotiations the buyer first offers a low price.

They enacted huge employee termination compensation plans, including golden parachutes for management.

That's standard practice in business, and has been for a long tyme [sic] businesswise [sic].

Yes, but it is not "standard business practice" to enact them in an attempt to thwart a takeover.

First, Googling "businesswise" returns about 265,000 results. Next, "Golden Parachutes":

"Golden parachutes are compensation agreements that provide for severance payments to top executives who are terminated or demoted pursuant to a takeover or other change in control. Companies argue that such provisions are necessary to keep executives from "jumping ship" during potential takeover attempts. While Calvert recognizes the merits of this argument, golden parachutes often impede takeover attempts that we believe shareowners have the right and the responsibility to consider."

They tried to make a deal to acquire a portion of AOL

Citation please.

My pleasure.

Thanks for the link, however it does not say there were talks of acquiring AOL or parts of it. What it does say is "And then there was that AOL (NYSE: TWX) deal with word of some share buybacks at above-market prices". Buybacks aren't buyouts or acquiring others.

And though Yahoo-AOL talks continue, according to the report

Talks on what, a share buyback?

Like I said before, Yahoo's board was not reviewing this potential merger in good faith. They clearly violated their fiduciary duty to shareholders, and will be ousted, probably by Carl Icahn

And as I said a number of tymes, if I were a Yahoo! stockholder and the board had accepted MS's first offer I, and others, very well have filed a lawsuit for not fulfilling fiduciary duty. And Carl Icahn? In the first sentence of TFA it says he is reportedly buying Yahoo! shares now and not when the offer was made. If he did not own any stocks in Yahoo! he has no standing to file any lawsuit, though now that he may own some he does have standing to nominate new board members. You think Balmer is a hardball negotiator? I hazard to say Icahn is harder. And if Balmer still wants to acquire Yahoo! Icahn may demand even more than the last offer.

Tech support shouldn't be expected to know information about how to serve legal documents to the company; you should have contacted their main corporate offices instead. Not that this would have helped you much, as you'll first need to unravel just who you're going to sue here first. There's a good outline at http://www.secinfo.com/dut49.33Q9.d.htm showing the possibilities. You probably want to serve Seagate Technology LLC or Seagate US LLC rather than the Cayman Islands parent corporation. As far as I can tell the US LLC is located at the 920 Disc Drive address.

Energy from San Onofre Nuclear near my house retailed at 3.8 to 4.15 cents per kilowatt/hour from 1996 through 2003.

http://www.secinfo.com/d2kFm.b1.htm#1stPage Scroll down to page 5 out of 6.

Look, I just stated you were wrong. With the "limited information" you had, you were wrong. Could I have been more polite? Sure, absolutely. You decided to open a Bevets style flamewar with the "god comment". I would not have given you an insult had you not earned one by firing the first shot and making it sound like I cared about my ego or someone else's. I said you were completely wrong. Is that bad to have an opinion that your information was incorrect, or did you already state that for me?

I don't have problems admitting my mistakes, in fact I enjoy asking for information when I am wrong, whereas you defend yourself. I think you might want to learn the difference between welcome criticism and provocation of others. If I am wrong, sure, call me on it. Also, I do care about +5, because I wouldn't want someone to have misinformation as a top post because other people will be misinformed. That wasn't aimed at you, that was aimed at correction of data. I've had it happen to me and I asked mods to mod down my posts when I did.

I didn't address your critique because I didn't want a flamewar. It's not that I am 100% right, I may or not be, and thats immaterial.

I also didn't claim it was MS FUD. I claimed that YCM has ties to Microsoft. The correct company is JGD Management Corp. d/b/a (doing business as) York Capital Management. Know who owns JGD and also has a board of directors straight from microsoft? JGD (Acacia) (SEC link).

So yeah, sorry if you got offended, but try not to start an insult fling and you might not get called a douchebag next time. I welcome snarky comments, not elitism.

Acacia = "InterActive Group" = "Arrowhead Research" (= Msft?)

"On May 29, 2007, we [Arrowhead Research] sold to certain institutional and accredited investors an aggregate of 2,849,446 shares of common stock (the "Private Placement Shares") at a per share purchase price of $5.78, and Warrants to purchase up to an additional 712,363 shares of common stock (the "Warrant Shares"), exercisable at $7.06 per share, in the Private Placement. Two investment vehicles of York Capital Management, a stockholder holding greater than 10% of the Company's Common Stock, participated in the offering."

http://www.secinfo.com/d14D5a.u4d4r.htm

"Arrowhead Research" refers to Arrowhead Research Corporation, a Delaware corporation and formerly known as InterActive Group, Inc."

http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/symbols.asp?exchange=NGM&start=A&sort=cap&Type=0

"The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Arrowhead Research Corporation (a Delaware Corporation), formally InterActive Group, Inc., and Arrowhead Research Corporation (a California Corporation), a wholly-owned subsidiary. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
. . . .
In October 2003, in connection with an initial private placement of Common Stock, the Company [Arrowhead Research] accepted 80,255 shares of Acacia Research Corporation, valued at $500,000, and $500,000 cash in exchange for 1,000,000 units. The shares are carried on the financial statements as marketable securities. See Note 3."

http://sec.edgar-online.com/2004/05/17/0001015402-04-002107/Section7.asp

"On May 29, 2007, we [Arrowhead Research] sold to certain institutional and accredited investors an aggregate of 2,849,446 shares of common stock (the "Private Placement Shares") at a per share purchase price of $5.78, and Warrants to purchase up to an additional 712,363 shares of common stock (the "Warrant Shares"), exercisable at $7.06 per share, in the Private Placement. Two investment vehicles of York Capital Management, a stockholder holding greater than 10% of the Company's Common Stock, participated in the offering."

http://www.secinfo.com/d14D5a.u4d4r.htm

Acacia = "InterActive Group" = "Arrowhead Research" (= Msft?)

"On May 29, 2007, we [Arrowhead Research] sold to certain institutional and accredited investors an aggregate of 2,849,446 shares of common stock (the "Private Placement Shares") at a per share purchase price of $5.78, and Warrants to purchase up to an additional 712,363 shares of common stock (the "Warrant Shares"), exercisable at $7.06 per share, in the Private Placement. Two investment vehicles of York Capital Management, a stockholder holding greater than 10% of the Company's Common Stock, participated in the offering."

http://www.secinfo.com/d14D5a.u4d4r.htm

"Arrowhead Research" refers to Arrowhead Research Corporation, a Delaware corporation and formerly known as InterActive Group, Inc."

http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/symbols.asp?exchange=NGM&start=A&sort=cap&Type=0

"The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Arrowhead Research Corporation (a Delaware Corporation), formally InterActive Group, Inc., and Arrowhead Research Corporation (a California Corporation), a wholly-owned subsidiary. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
. . . .
In October 2003, in connection with an initial private placement of Common Stock, the Company [Arrowhead Research] accepted 80,255 shares of Acacia Research Corporation, valued at $500,000, and $500,000 cash in exchange for 1,000,000 units. The shares are carried on the financial statements as marketable securities. See Note 3."

http://sec.edgar-online.com/2004/05/17/0001015402-04-002107/Section7.asp

"On May 29, 2007, we [Arrowhead Research] sold to certain institutional and accredited investors an aggregate of 2,849,446 shares of common stock (the "Private Placement Shares") at a per share purchase price of $5.78, and Warrants to purchase up to an additional 712,363 shares of common stock (the "Warrant Shares"), exercisable at $7.06 per share, in the Private Placement. Two investment vehicles of York Capital Management, a stockholder holding greater than 10% of the Company's Common Stock, participated in the offering."

http://www.secinfo.com/d14D5a.u4d4r.htm

Acacia has sued Microsoft numerous times (currently they have two open cases according to their SEC filings) and googling shows that Acacia has settled with Microsoft in the past numerous times, recently: March 2007: http://www.secinfo.com/dV3p8.ujp.htm

tf64

For reference, you might be able to dig up some public filings from the dot com days..
For example: http://www.secinfo.com/dsvRx.52xn.htm

I remember back in the day, circa '00, I remember seeing Malda's salary publicly stated as about $90K... I'm not sure which is more frightening, that I remember such minutiae instead the Taylor series for e^x or that I still read slashdot. :P

Even big brother has a good side. Your big brother Edgar has all the down and dirty on your other brother Acxiom Corp in one neat document called a 10K. If you had any remaining delusions of privacy, let this http://www.secinfo.com/dMc2q.ux.htm and this http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/sf/privacy2.htm l put them to rest.

This was an invaluable service - makes me wonder who's putting the pressure on them :(

Probably the companies that pay for the commercial listings like TiVo and SageTV.

i know they don't have one beacuse i looked it up. and as he was being hired by the parent company, it is entirely a USA matter. sorry you still lose.

list of google subsidiaries: http://www.secinfo.com/d14D5a.127t8.p.htm

The filing was made, and later deleted. See SEC Info, which indexes and mirrors the entire SEC archive. Their system notes that the SEC deleted the file. This probably reflects an incorrect filing related to a merger, but nevertheless, it should stay in EDGAR unless formally amended.

This is the link to the SEC filing mentioning the CD...

http://www.secinfo.com/d1157k.43b.htm

And, of course, here's a link to buy it at Amazon.

I did some research on my own shoes. They're Converse, blue, you know, the skate type. The label inside the shoe told me "Made in Macau". I've never heard of Macau, let alone know where it is. I went to the Converse website to find out more. Let's have a look at their "studentinfo" (sic)

http://www.converse.com/info/studentinfo/manuf.htm l

• "...Converse Inc. is the largest U.S. manufacturer of athletic footwear due to its Lumberton, N.C. ..."
• "Lumberton employs approximately 890 people and is the largest employer in Robeson County, NC.plant"
• "Converse manufactured over 10 million pairs of the canvas Chuck Taylor All Star in 1992; 50 percent of which were shipped to overseas markets."

Let's do some more research and read a bit of the financial info on their website. Hmmm this SEC filing looks interesting. It seems to go to the sec.gov site, but no hits on the query they gave us. Try hitting the link for yourself to see what I mean.

Grmbl, let's see what google gives us. Hey another link to the SEC site. And this one does mention Macau !

http://www.secinfo.com/dS997.7433.htm

"We utilize independent producers located in the Far East, particularly China, Taiwan, Macau, Vietnam and the Philippines, to manufacture approximately 64% of our footwear."

Well, 64% eh, that's quite a lot. I wonder how many sweatshops that is.

Converse, Stay True (tm)