Google Inc.
No-Poach Settlements Highlight Antitrust Danger in Hiring
May 12, 2014
The U.S. Department of Justice and the attorney general of California entered into a settlement on May 1 with online marketplace eBay Inc. over an alleged pact with software company Intuit Inc. that neither company would recruit programmers from the other. The settlement was the latest battle in a long antitrust war between Silicon Valley giants and tech employees who claim these companies cheated them out of the chance to compete for better compensation through a series of secret bilateral “no-poaching”...
May 12, 2014
The U.S. Department of Justice and the attorney general of California entered into a settlement on May 1 with online marketplace eBay Inc. over an alleged pact with software company Intuit Inc. that neither company would recruit programmers from the other. The settlement was the latest battle in a long antitrust war between Silicon Valley giants and tech employees who claim these companies cheated them out of the chance to compete for better compensation through a series of secret bilateral “no-poaching”...
How IBM, Google and Microsoft Hire In-House Lawyers
May 2, 2014
How do law departments hire and train their new lawyers? We'd never really examined this issue, but conversations with top managers at several companies in recent years had piqued our interest. It seemed clear that some very successful departments had adopted very different approaches—yet each seemed to be yielding the desired results. So we asked the general counsel at International Business Machines Corporation, Google Inc. and Microsoft Corporation if we could interview some of the people...
May 2, 2014
How do law departments hire and train their new lawyers? We'd never really examined this issue, but conversations with top managers at several companies in recent years had piqued our interest. It seemed clear that some very successful departments had adopted very different approaches—yet each seemed to be yielding the desired results. So we asked the general counsel at International Business Machines Corporation, Google Inc. and Microsoft Corporation if we could interview some of the people...
Jury Orders Google Must Pay $85 Million in Patent Infringement Claim
March 28, 2014
It was an expensive day—perhaps even an expensive week—for Google Inc. last Thursday. A federal jury decided that the search engine giant owes $85 million in damages to SimpleAir for infringing on their patent, according to a recent statement. The trial and the separate damage ruling were both presided over by Judge Rodney Gilstrap for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. “The jury understood that Google profits tremendously from its infringing use of our invention...
March 28, 2014
It was an expensive day—perhaps even an expensive week—for Google Inc. last Thursday. A federal jury decided that the search engine giant owes $85 million in damages to SimpleAir for infringing on their patent, according to a recent statement. The trial and the separate damage ruling were both presided over by Judge Rodney Gilstrap for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. “The jury understood that Google profits tremendously from its infringing use of our invention...
Android or iOS Phone?
June 22, 2013
Attorneys often find themselves in? separate camps, such as plaintiff/defendant, civil/criminal, prosecution/device, and, perhaps most contentiously, Android/iOS smartphone. While Apple Inc.'s and Google Inc.'s smartphones keep attorneys connected, each takes a sometimes idiosyncratic approach to features and capabilities, building strong user loyalties. Both phones have changed over the past year, prompting some to switch camps to take advantage of improvements, such as a larger display or stronger...
June 22, 2013
Attorneys often find themselves in? separate camps, such as plaintiff/defendant, civil/criminal, prosecution/device, and, perhaps most contentiously, Android/iOS smartphone. While Apple Inc.'s and Google Inc.'s smartphones keep attorneys connected, each takes a sometimes idiosyncratic approach to features and capabilities, building strong user loyalties. Both phones have changed over the past year, prompting some to switch camps to take advantage of improvements, such as a larger display or stronger...
